Is A Design Canon Really Dangerous?
This is an article written by Philip B. Meggs for the now defunct AIGA Journal of Graphic Design in which the author debates Martha Scotford's writing and reflects on whether or not a canon in graphic design would be a problem. The excerpt comes from Volume 9, Issue 3, page 12.
This is a PDF of a scan of an excerpt from AIGA Journal of Graphic Design 9(3): 12.