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Beauty Shock: Shock Books, Volume 1 | The Collected Excerpts of the First Shock Books | Fall 2011 | Winthrop University | Full Color | Softcover | 7.5″ x 7.5″ | 64 pages | For Sale at Lulu | In the fall of 2011, students in a pilot seminar at Winthrop University wrote, illustrated and designed their own Shock Books. This book features excerpts of their wonderful, exceptional work. At the start of the seminar, students chose narrower themes, which I …
Humans Make Robot Movies to Feel Better About Being Human in a Robot World | David Barringer | 7.5 x 7.5 | Full Color | 60 Pages | 2011 | Shock Books | Buy at dB Shop I created this book as an example of the types of books my design/illustration students would design for a seminar. I created a little publishing company called Shock Books that publishes themed books by graphic designers and illustrators. This year’s theme is Beauty …
I wrote a little memoir. Only 100 pages, the book is a private project with a limited print run. I typeset it in Eidetic Neo and used a display type I designed myself. The cover pattern derives from a graphic …
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 …
New York Times Book Review: Best Illustrated Children’s Books 2010 (judge)
Living Arts College, Raleigh, NC (studio visit, lecture)
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (studio visit and senior-thesis critique)
SVA D-Crit Lecture Series, New York, NY (lecture) — Watch the Video on Vimeo.
Lipscombe University, Nashville, TN (lecture and studio visit)
18th Annual AIGA Nebraska Show, Omaha, NE (judge)
Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK (lecture and book signing)
The Pilcrow Literary Festival, Chicago, IL (panel participant)
Opium’s Literary Death Match, Chicago, IL (judge)
Show ‘n’ Tell Show, Chicago, IL (speaker on book design)