The Failed Painter: Or: Unchained by Material Anxiety

"Ian Lynam is the Hunter S. Thompson of design writing." -Sereina Rothenberger

A personal book about material anxiety in creative work, The Failed Painter discusses singular and multiple production processes, perfectibility and imperfectability in times of virtual surface, and hunger for authenticity. Writing in the persona of the titular "failed painter," Ian Lynam, author of The Impossibility of Silence: Writing for Designers, Artists & Photographers (2021), directly addresses design pract...