design critic
Frances Butler
It may be that the incomplete story, the particle, the fragment, is now the preferred unit of information for our culture, and lack of place is more useful for presenting these fragments than to fix them into sentences or grids.
“Reading Outside the Grid: Designers and Society,” in Looking Closer: Critical Writings on Graphic Design, edited by Michael Bierut (New York: Allworth Press, 1994), 95.