I’m Madeleine Morley (she/her), a writer and editor based in Berlin and originally from London. Most of my work focuses on art, design, tech, and culture. I’m currently Head of Publishing at Dinamo, where I head up its Dinamo Editions imprint.
I was previously senior editor for AIGA Eye on Design. These days, I write features, essays, profiles, and reviews; my words have appeared in The New York Times, The Observer, Dazed and Confused Magazine, AnOther, Elephant Magazine, Fast Company, and many more. Essays of mine have also been published in books by Princeton Architectural Press, Onomatopee, Maria Editions, and Chateau International. I have a degree in English Literature from Cambridge University and an M.A. in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute.
If you’d like to get in touch for commissions or other opportunities, you can reach me at madeleineam[at]gmail.com
Select Clients + Publications
The New York Times
The Observer
Princeton Architectural Press
The Wellcome Collection
Dazed & Confused Magazine
VICE Media
It’s Nice That
Fast Company
Quartz
WePresent
AnOther Magazine
Riposte
Elephant
Onomatopee
Adobe
Airbnb
magCulture
Sleek Magazine
Port Magazine
Computer Arts
Creative Review
Monotype
Eye Magazine
ReadyMag
AIGA, the professional association for design
Swiss Design Awards
Lectures, Exhibitions + Teaching
Instructor, “Design and its Many Questions,” MA course at FH Bielefeld, Germany, Autumn/Winter semester, 2022
Moderation of “Ever since the days of Mrs. Gutenberg …” for A—Z’s Counter Sessions, Berlin, Germany, August 2022
“Writing Around Design” for the Feminist Designer Social Club’s HAKDANG lecture series, Seoul, South Korea, August 2021
Moderation of Occasional Paper’s “Messy Histories of Graphic Design & Typography” panel at Printed Matter Virtual Art Book Fair, February 2021
“On Writing About (and Around) Design History” for Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, Germany, January 2021
“Troubling Design Histories” for Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, Germany, January 2021
“Diversity Issues” with Futuress and depatriarchise design for DAE Lecture Series, Design Academy Eindhoven, the Netherlands, December 2020
“Troubling Design Histories” for David Chipperfield Architects Symposium, London, UK, November 2020
“The Troublemakers Class of 2020” remote workshop, co-run for Futuress, October 2020 - January 2021
“Feminist Findings” co-curated with Nina Paim and Eliot Gisel as Futuress, A—Z, Berlin, Germany, June-September 2020
“The Liberation in Print Collective” workshop, co-run with common interest and hosted by le Signe, Charmont, France, April-May 2020
“On Writing About (and Around) Design History” for Teaching Design lectures, A—Z, Berlin, Germany, January 2020
“The Women Poster Designs of Haigh-Ashbury Swinging 60s” for Show and Tell at Fukt Magazine’s Handsiebdruckerei, Berlin, Germany, January 2020
Instructor and Guest Lecturer, University of the Arts Berlin, Visual Systems, Berlin, Germany, 2018–2019
An Introduction to Eye on Design magazine’s ‘Gossip’ issue, Athenaeum Nieuwscentrum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, March 2019
“Gender at Design Conferences” at IAM Weekend, Barcelona, Spain, March 2019
Live Q&A with Studio Pandan for Eye on Design’s “Distraction” issue launch party, The Boys Club, Berlin, Germany, October 2019
“Print Design in Digital Times” at The Obama Institute, The University of Mainz, Germany, October 2019
“Print Design in Digital Times” at TYPO at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, May 2018
“The Flesh Made Word—An A-Z of Femininity” at Ultrafett Festival, The Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, Germany, October 2017
“The First Thing I Ever Designed” co-curated with Steven Heller for AIGA Eye on Design’s Conference Minneapolis, USA, 2017
“Political Print: Form as Resistance” at The University of the Arts Berlin, Germany, November 2016