David Barringer

David Barringer writes, designs, and teaches. He writes novels and design criticism, designs books and magazines, and teaches at the Maryland College Institute of Art (MICA) and Winthrop University in South Carolina. He is the author of the novels American Home Life and Johnny Red and the books of design criticism There’s Nothing Funny About Design (2009) and Emigre 68: American Mutt Barks in the Yard (2005). A winner of the 2008 Winterhouse Award for Design Writing & Criticism, he has written for the New York Times, Emigre, I.D., Eye, AIGA’s Voice, Print, Design Observer, Details, Mademoiselle, The American Prospect, Nerve, the Detroit Free Press, the ABA Journal, and many others. He lectures at schools and museums and has acted as a judge for AIGA and the New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2010. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan (1991) and the University of Michigan Law School (1995). He grew up in Troy, Michigan, and now lives in North Carolina.

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