A5, 57 pages, Black & white printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2025

Graphic design in the 21st century west is inextricably bound to to failing political systems. its forms and styles are increasingly resultant of privately-owned algorithmic generation and exchange. most designers work as faciltative centrists or mercenary intellengentsia with the visual rubrics of commercialism and activism. is this the same discipline, which, a century earlier, envisaged a global, socialist “design for life” ? how could its practitioners and institutes consider professional experiences outside of a corrupted internet? how does graphic design’s cultural dialogue abandon performativity and pretension to reclaim pointed but porous dialogue? how do schools counter formal and critical homogeny in their enrollment strategies? how do all designers navigate tokenistic acceptance, and a deluge of oriental gaze? how will the future of the discipline be shaped by those who reject the technology structures that largely control its output? in a digital playground of styles, can graphic design feel truly progressive again?

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