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Packed with conversational interviews, personal and critical essays, and a wide-ranging collection of graphic works, Design against Design examines the realities and relations that constitute a socially engaged design practice. Canadian designer Kevin Yuen Kit Lo offers candid, almost confessional, insights that challenge the status quo of design writing, demanding that we think more critically about the politics of visual culture under contemporary capitalism, and importantly, how we can act against it.
The collection is organized around four key themes: "Critique" presents a political economic analysis of graphic design in relation to capitalism and considers practical ways to resist it; "Practice" looks critically at how designers work toward (and sometimes against) social change; "Materiality" focuses on the craft of graphic design; and "Autonomy" considers the emotional and relational aspects of graphic design.
Published by Set Margins' in 2024. Paperback, measures 8.8 x 6.3 inches, 240 pages. ISBN 9789083318806
