There's Nothing Funny About Design
by David Barringer
6x9 | 256 pages | Illustrated | 2009
ISBN 9781568988283
Princeton Architectural Press
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Cover by Felix Sockwell
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Ellen Lupton: "This collection of new and revised essays presents the graphic-design world with a kick in the literary pants. Barringer's writing is bluntly personal yet rarely narcissistic; his prose often bristles with the excitement of an angry porcupine, yet it's always grounded in rigorous thinking. No one else in our field is producing writing quite like this. As a self-taught designer, freelance writer, and work-at-home dad, Barringer is both an insider and outsider to the design discourse. He makes sense of what designers do and then takes us apart with his needle-sharp verbal tools."
Interviewed by Ellen Lupton at Design Observer.
