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The Design Comedy
The Design Comedy
The Design Comedy
The Design Comedy
The Design Comedy
The Design Comedy
The Design Comedy
The Design Comedy
The Design Comedy
The Design Comedy
Books ›The Design Comedy

The Design Comedy

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Design is a hellmouth of disappointment and a harrowing pit of professional failure. In this paraphrase of Dante’s Divine Comedy, Otto von Busch, a pitiful design professor, searches for the design workshop at Parsons. Proving inaccessible, the lost professor falls into despair. However, a recently fired workshop technician, Virgil, appears to know the way. They descend the crumbling corridors of design’s collapse, through the ruins and anguish of broken promises, failed research, self-absorbed design theorists, and hypocritical designers, to the very nadir of design’s inferno.

Set Margins' is an independent international publisher and platform based in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Founded in 2022 by Freek Lomme, the press champions marginalized cultural agendas, critiques corporate culture, and focuses on the politics embedded within visual culture, design, and art.

Operating outside the traditional corporate-dominated publishing industry, Set Margins' functions as a fluid support structure rather than a strict movement or group. Their catalogue highlights alternative voices, critical discourse, and experimental graphic design.

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Language: English
Number of pages: 112
Dimensions: 10,5 x 21 cm
Format: Softcover
Release Date: 28/03/2025
ISBN: 978-90-834993-6-9

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