There's Nothing Funny About Design review in AIGA VOICE online journal · Aug 4, 02:27 PM
There’s Nothing Funny About Design received a very nice review in the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) VOICE online journal.
Here are some excerpts:
“…unites vivid metaphors and exhaustive research, as well as a good dose of humor, to impart unusual facts.”
“More than gleaning factual histories, however, readers learn from Barringer a particular stance, one that acknowledges the flux of cultural context, and that design invariably entails the often neglected or acknowledged practice of ideological and cultural Frisbee, grabbing an icon and flipping it back, with a good twist. Barringer’s real achievement, then, is laying bare some of the rules of this game in essays that never, ever use words like “ideological.”
“…all of it pointing to Barringer’s rich imagination. The third section is yet another spoof, sort of, in this case rekindling the form of the rulebooks from the past, including Ben Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanac; the guide ostensibly directs young designers through sections on temperament, penmanship, collaboration, clients and so on, but again achieves something else indirectly, in this case performing a curious form of commentary through humor.”
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