David Barringer

David Barringer writes personal essays, design essays, legal journalism, and fiction. He currently writes for AIGA’s Voice, the New York Times Book Review, Eye Magazine, and others.

Journalism

New York Times Book Review, Details, The American Prospect, The American Bar Association Journal, Mademoiselle, Playboy, Men’s Journal, Men’s Fitness, Detroit Monthly, Coffee Journal, Detroit Free Press, Detroit News, Metro Times, Detroit Free Press Sunday Magazine, Massage Magazine

Business Writing

Lumen Legal, Group 7500, UAW-Ford, UAW-DaimlerChrysler, UAW-GM, UAW, Teamsters, Franklin Bank, City of Lathrup Village, and other businesses and law firms

Short Fiction

Epoch, Wisconsin Review, Nerve, Quick Fiction, Small Spiral Notebook, Del Sol Review, In Posse Review, Failbetter, Tatlin’s Tower, CrossConnect, 3AM Magazine, The Paumanok Review, Hobart, Opium Magazine, Barrelhouse, Eyeshot, Carve Magazine, Drunken Boat, Sweet Fancy Moses, Pindeldyboz, Boom! For Real, The Furnace, The Styles, Raised in a Barn, Taint Magazine, Monkeybicycle, Foliate Oak, Spoiled Ink, The Edward Society, Blue Planet, Flak Magazine, Konundrum Engine, Prose Toad, Cenotaph, Outsider Ink, Spoken War, 42Opus, Punchline Magazine, Dezmin’s Archives, Haypenny, Minima, Ballyhoo

Work & Writing Included In

  • Typology: A Handbook on the Fundamentals of Typography, Jason Tselentis (Rockport: Spring 2011). It features type design, layout and composition, and experimental typography from designers around the world.
  • Mutt: excerpt in The Uncertain States of America Reader; Looking Closer 5; and Émigré 70. Design essay in “Design Disasters” and “Designing Magazines”