The Failed Painter or Unchained by Material Anxiety
Ian Lynam
Set Margins’
English
Softcover
56 pages
105 x 175 mm
2023
ISBN 9789083318820
The Failed Painter is a personal book about material anxiety in graphic design’s creative work. It speaks of fascination for singular and multiple production processes, perfectibility, and imperfectability in times of virtual surface and hunger for authenticity.
Writing out of the persona ‘The Failed Painter’, this book is a collection of essays on design and art spanning culture, race, nation, and sheer vandalism from the author of The Impossibility of Silence: Writing for Designers, Artists & Photographers. Within this highly curated, yet varied assortment of approachable writing on aesthetics: space exploration, mercenaries, puberty, instant nostalgia, precarious labor, and of course, zombies.
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About the Author
Ian Lynam works at the intersection of graphic design, design education and design research. He is faculty at Temple University Japan, as well as at Vermont College of Fine Arts in the MFA in Graphic Design Program, Meme Design School in Tokyo and is Visiting Critic at CalArts. He operates the design studio Ian Lynam Design, working across identity, typography, and interior design. Ian writes for Slanted (DE) and has published a number of books about design.
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About the Publisher
Set Margins’ is an international publisher delivering critical experiences, discourse, and dialogue through art and design, to frame current impulses from the margin with particular focus for communication, forms of cooperation, and involved politics.
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