David Barringer

“American Mutt” in Polish Design Anthology

A fifteen-page excerpt from American Mutt Barks in the Yard: Emigre 68 (2005) was translated into Polish by Dariusz Zukowski and included in See/Know: A Selection of the Most Important Texts of Design. It’s a hefty, colorful, beautiful book. Hardcover at 464 pages and over 6×9 in size, the anthology was edited by Przemek Debowski and Jacek Mrowczyk and published by Wydawnictwo Karakter in 2011. The anthology features writings from Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, El Lissitzky, Jan Tschichold, Paul Rand, Beatrice Warde, Massimo Vignelli, Robin Kinross, Jeffery Keedy, Katherine McCoy, Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller, Gerard Unger, Rick Poynor, Andrew Blauvelt, Jan van Toorn, Natalia Ilyin, Peter Bilak, and many others. I’m honored to have Mutt included, especially since, being a mutt, I have Polish relatives. Others have written about it here and here. This place writes: “For the first time, Polish readers have the opportunity to trace the heated debates accompanying the formation of modern design. With legendary authors El Lissitzky, Jan Tschichold and Paul Rand on the one hand and postmodernist-crazy Californian Emigre on the other, the choice of authors is wide-ranging as well.”