• The Failed Painter Or: Unchained by Material Anxiety
  • The Failed Painter Or: Unchained by Material Anxiety
  • The Failed Painter Or: Unchained by Material Anxiety
  • The Failed Painter Or: Unchained by Material Anxiety
  • The Failed Painter Or: Unchained by Material Anxiety
  • The Failed Painter Or: Unchained by Material Anxiety
  • The Failed Painter Or: Unchained by Material Anxiety
  • The Failed Painter Or: Unchained by Material Anxiety
  • The Failed Painter Or: Unchained by Material Anxiety
  • The Failed Painter Or: Unchained by Material Anxiety
  • The Failed Painter Or: Unchained by Material Anxiety
  • The Failed Painter Or: Unchained by Material Anxiety

The Failed Painter Or: Unchained by Material Anxiety

Set Margins

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.

Product Details 

  • Type: Softcover
  • Dimensions: 105 mm x 175 mm / 4.1 x 6.9 inches (portait)
  • ISBN: 978-90-833188-2-0
  • Language: English
  • Release date: 2023-03-20
  • Binding: Sewn-glued
  • Paper: Serixo 250 gr. (cover) and 90 gr. (inside)
  • Color: Pantone Bright Red U, Black
  • Font: Wordshape Cooper Black Italic Pro, Wordshape Cooper Chrome, Wordshape Biwa
  • Image specs: 44 b/w images