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BOOKS ON DESIGN THEORY, AESTHETICS AND HISTORY

PUBLISHER
Set Margins' publications

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6 x 8.25 in. / 92 pgs / 25 duotone.

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Catalog: FALL 2023 p. 68   

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ISBN 9789083270630 TRADE
List Price: $17.00 CDN $25.00

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SET MARGINS' PUBLICATIONS

Who Can Afford to Be Critical?

An Inquiry into What We Can’t Do Alone, as Designers, and into What We Might Be Able to Do Together, as People

Edited with introduction by Afonso Matos. Text by Silvio Lorusso, J. Dakota Brown, Marianela D'Aprile, Evening Class, Somnath Batt, Danielle Aubert, Jack Henrie Fisher, Alan Smart, Greg Mihalko.

On the conditions and limits of critical thinking for design culture under capitalism

Design schools increasingly urge students to address social, political and environmental issues in their work. But who can afford to work in this way after graduation?
In a dynamic style that draws from multiple contributors, Who Can Afford to Be Critical? discusses the limits that affordability, class and labor impose upon the educational promise of holding a "critical" practice. Why do we tend to ignore the material and socioeconomic constraints that bind us as designers, claiming instead that we can be powerful agents of change? Instead of focusing on the dream of ethical work under capitalism, could we instead focus first on designers’ own working conditions, as one immediate site for collective action? Over the course of four chapters, this publication delves into the modes of precarity in critical graphic work and possible paths toward emancipation from that position.


Who Can Afford to Be Critical?

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FORTHCOMING AND NEW: DESIGN AND DECORATIVE ARTS

Through Witnessing

THROUGH WITNESSING

Set Margins' Publications

ISBN: 9789083350127
USD $27.50
| CAN $39.5

Pub Date: 6/25/2024
Forthcoming


Decolonising Design Education

DECOLONISING DESIGN EDUCATION

Spector Books

ISBN: 9783959057479
USD $20.00
| CAN $28

Pub Date: 3/5/2024
Active | In stock


The New Designer: Design as a Profession

THE NEW DESIGNER: DESIGN AS A PROFESSION

Spector Books

ISBN: 9783959057486
USD $20.00
| CAN $28

Pub Date: 3/5/2024
Active | In stock


Free the Map

FREE THE MAP

nai010 publishers

ISBN: 9789462088122
USD $49.95
| CAN $71.95

Pub Date: 3/26/2024
Active | In stock


Dutch Designers Yearbook 2023

DUTCH DESIGNERS YEARBOOK 2023

nai010 publishers

ISBN: 9789462087958
USD $40.00
| CAN $58

Pub Date: 3/26/2024
Active | In stock


Commons in Design

COMMONS IN DESIGN

Valiz

ISBN: 9789493246300
USD $33.00
| CAN $47

Pub Date: 2/27/2024
Active | In stock


What Design Can’t Do

WHAT DESIGN CAN’T DO

Set Margins' Publications

ISBN: 9789083350134
USD $25.00
| CAN $37.5

Pub Date: 3/26/2024
Active | In stock


Superstorm

SUPERSTORM

Onomatopee

ISBN: 9789083362175
USD $23.00
| CAN $34

Pub Date: 6/25/2024
Forthcoming


A Handmade Modernism

A HANDMADE MODERNISM

RM/MUAC

ISBN: 9788419233417
USD $55.00
| CAN $79

Pub Date: 11/7/2023
Active | Out of stock


Dutch Designers Yearbook 2022

DUTCH DESIGNERS YEARBOOK 2022

nai010 publishers

ISBN: 9789462087774
USD $40.00
| CAN $58

Pub Date: 10/3/2023
Active | In stock


Cleaning

CLEANING

Lars Müller Publishers

ISBN: 9783037787328
USD $35.00
| CAN $50.5

Pub Date: 10/3/2023
Active | In stock


How to Design a Revolution

HOW TO DESIGN A REVOLUTION

Lars Müller Publishers

ISBN: 9783037787335
USD $50.00
| CAN $72.5

Pub Date: 4/16/2024
Forthcoming