Design Observer guest observer Ellen Lupton interviews THERE'S NOTHING FUNNY ABOUT DESIGN author David Barringer · Jun 3, 08:16 AM
Last Friday, guest observer Ellen Lupton interviewed David Barringer about his new book, There’s Nothing Funny About Design on Design Observer:
ELLEN LUPTON:
“There’s Nothing Funny About Design is actually very funny. 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.”
Their conversation conducted via e-mail over a three-day period is available here.
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