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POST-SCRIPT: Author / designer Ian Lynam speaks about the making and purpose of FRACTURE-JAPANESE GRAPHIC DESIGN 1875-1975
@setmargins_postscript

Fracture: Japanese Graphic Design 1875–1975 is a profusely illustrated, dynamically designed, and easy-to-read survey of the history of Japanese graphic design. Designer, educator, critic, and historian Ian Lynam explores graphic design in Japan from its foundations in the graphic arts to the immediate pre-digital design era. Fracture is grounded by a number of essays that help readers understand the tremendous cultural shifts that have happened in Japan since it re-opened to the West, exploring modernity, imperialism, gender, commercialism, sexuality, and aesthetics.

AVAILABLE AT 38€ VIA SETMARGINS.PRESS (@setmargins link in bio) and local bookstores!

Ian Lynam @ianlynam (born 1972) holds an MFA in graphic design from California Institute of the Arts. He is a faculty member at Temple University Japan Campus as well as at Vermont College of Fine Arts. His previous books on design include War with Myself, The Failed Painter and The Impossibility of Silence.

POST-SCRIPT is a new series of videos going behind the scenes with Set Margins’ authors, made by Sofia Paz @setmargins_postscript @paz.zip

POST-SCRIPT, part 1 of 2 with Maisa Imamović, author of M͇a͇i͇s͇a͇ i͇n͇ W͇e͇b͇l͇a͇n͇d͇ - D͇e͇t͇o͇u͇r͇i͇n͇g͇ U͇X͇ D͇e͇s͇t͇i͇n͇i͇e͇s͇

POST-SCRIPT is a new series of videos going behind the scenes with Set Margins’ authors, made by Sofia Paz @setmargins_postscript

Haunted by screenshots of early cyberfeminist websites and in dialogue with digital sages, web scripts, and business interests, media artist, web developer, and author Maisa Imamović embarks on a philosophical and practice-based crusade through the internet’s surface and its shadows. To expose the various ways of thriving online without surrendering to optimization, the book explores imperfect uses of perfect software, preservation of precarious web infrastructures, tactical content strategies, and experiments with autonomous financial systems — all wrapped in educational efforts to sustain criticality amid automation. Through these traversals beneath the scroll, Maisa finds her Webland: speculative, broken, and oftentimes, poetic infrastructure where logic destabilizes, binaries dissolve, and meaning evades monetization. But can a non-extractive internet exist beyond metaphor? Can poetry rewire protocol? Or will her sanctuary be absorbed into the very architectures it resists?

AVAILABLE AT 25€
via setmargins.press (@setmargins link in bio) or local bookstores!

Graphic design by Clara Pasteau
Book video by Annette Behrens
Made possible by Mondriaan Foundation, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds

@iammans @clara_pasteau @cultuurfonds @mondriaanfonds

#cyberfeminism #ux #uxdesign #webdesign #setmarginspublications

POST-SCRIPT, part 1 of 2 with Maisa Imamović, author of M͇a͇i͇s͇a͇ i͇n͇ W͇e͇b͇l͇a͇n͇d͇ - D͇e͇t͇o͇u͇r͇i͇n͇g͇ U͇X͇ D͇e͇s͇t͇i͇n͇i͇e͇s͇

POST-SCRIPT is a new series of videos going behind the scenes with Set Margins’ authors, made by Sofia Paz @setmargins_postscript

Haunted by screenshots of early cyberfeminist websites and in dialogue with digital sages, web scripts, and business interests, media artist, web developer, and author Maisa Imamović embarks on a philosophical and practice-based crusade through the internet’s surface and its shadows. To expose the various ways of thriving online without surrendering to optimization, the book explores imperfect uses of perfect software, preservation of precarious web infrastructures, tactical content strategies, and experiments with autonomous financial systems — all wrapped in educational efforts to sustain criticality amid automation. Through these traversals beneath the scroll, Maisa finds her Webland: speculative, broken, and oftentimes, poetic infrastructure where logic destabilizes, binaries dissolve, and meaning evades monetization. But can a non-extractive internet exist beyond metaphor? Can poetry rewire protocol? Or will her sanctuary be absorbed into the very architectures it resists?

AVAILABLE AT 25€
via setmargins.press (@setmargins link in bio) or local bookstores!

Graphic design by Clara Pasteau
Book video by Annette Behrens
Made possible by Mondriaan Foundation, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds

@iammans @clara_pasteau @cultuurfonds @mondriaanfonds

#cyberfeminism #ux #uxdesign #webdesign #setmarginspublications

POST-SCRIPT # 3.2, with ‘No One Leaves Clean’ author Yaw Ofosu-Asare (@papayaw_asare )

POST-SCRIPT is a new series of videos going behind the scenes with Set Margins’ authors, made by Sofia Paz @setmargins_postscript

No One Leaves Clean, Living, Breathing and Surviving the Postcolonial African Economy is a visceral portrait of Ghana at the turn of the new millennium, where dreams, betrayals, and survival unfold in the shadows of urban life. Set against the raw streets and market circles of Takoradi and Accra, this novel traces the life of a man haunted by deferred aspirations, a wife’s unrelenting desire for wealth, and the relentless weight of a nation caught between hope and disillusionment.

Blending realism with lyrical fragments and magical motifs, No One Leaves Clean captures the ghostly persistence of history in everyday rituals, political betrayals, informal economies, fleeting escapes through music, and the unspoken codes of secrecy, shame, and resilience. It is a story of masculinity undone, family bonds frayed, and identities reshaped in the crucible of Ghana’s postcolonial struggle.

This is a story of brilliant men made invisible, of women who carry history on their heads, of a city that counts bodies but never souls. It is about the specific shame of having once been exceptional, about marriages that have become architecture of silence, about waiting for your turn to disappear. Raw, unflinching, and devastatingly beautiful, No One Leaves Clean announces a vital new voice in African literature, one that transforms the ordinary humiliations of poverty into something approaching the sacred.

No One Leaves Clean asks: what does it mean to live, to dream, and to leave a mark in a country where nothing—and no one—remains untouched?

AVAILABLE AT 25€
via setmargins.press (@setmargins link in bio)
or order at your local bookstore!

video by Sofia Paz @paz.zip

#setmarginspublications #novel #ghana #africanliterature

POST-SCRIPT # 3.1, with ‘No One Leaves Clean’ author Yaw Ofosu-Asare (@papayaw_asare )

POST-SCRIPT is a new series of videos going behind the scenes with Set Margins’ authors, made by Sofia Paz @setmargins_postscript

No One Leaves Clean, Living, Breathing and Surviving the Postcolonial African Economy is a visceral portrait of Ghana at the turn of the new millennium, where dreams, betrayals, and survival unfold in the shadows of urban life. Set against the raw streets and market circles of Takoradi and Accra, this novel traces the life of a man haunted by deferred aspirations, a wife’s unrelenting desire for wealth, and the relentless weight of a nation caught between hope and disillusionment.

Blending realism with lyrical fragments and magical motifs, No One Leaves Clean captures the ghostly persistence of history in everyday rituals, political betrayals, informal economies, fleeting escapes through music, and the unspoken codes of secrecy, shame, and resilience. It is a story of masculinity undone, family bonds frayed, and identities reshaped in the crucible of Ghana’s postcolonial struggle.

This is a story of brilliant men made invisible, of women who carry history on their heads, of a city that counts bodies but never souls. It is about the specific shame of having once been exceptional, about marriages that have become architecture of silence, about waiting for your turn to disappear. Raw, unflinching, and devastatingly beautiful, No One Leaves Clean announces a vital new voice in African literature, one that transforms the ordinary humiliations of poverty into something approaching the sacred.

No One Leaves Clean asks: what does it mean to live, to dream, and to leave a mark in a country where nothing—and no one—remains untouched?

AVAILABLE AT 25€
via setmargins.press (@setmargins link in bio)
or order at your local bookstore!

video by Sofia Paz @paz.zip

#setmarginspublications #novel #ghana #africanliterature

POST-SCRIPT #3.1, with ‘What Design Can’t Do’ author Silvio Lorusso

POST-SCRIPT is a new series of videos going behind the scenes with Set Margins’ authors, made by Sofia Paz @setmargins_postscript

What Design Can’t Do probes the disillusionment that permeates design. It tackles the deskilling effects provoked by digital semi-automation, the instances of ornamental politics fashioned to please the museum-educational complex, the nebulous promises of design schools. While reviving historical expressions of disenchantment, Silvio Lorusso examines present-day memes and social media rants. To depict this disheartening crisis, he crafts a new critical vocabulary for readers to build upon. What this exposé reveals is both worrying and refreshing: rather than producing a meaningful order, design might be just about inhabiting chaos.

AVAILABLE AT 22€
via setmargins.press (@setmargins link in bio) or local bookstores!

@paz.zip @silvio.lorusso

#setmarginspublications #graphicdesign #designtheory #disillusionment

POST-SCRIPT #3.2, with ‘What Design Can’t Do’ author Silvio Lorusso

POST-SCRIPT is a new series of videos going behind the scenes with Set Margins’ authors, made by Sofia Paz @setmargins_postscript

What Design Can’t Do probes the disillusionment that permeates design. It tackles the deskilling effects provoked by digital semi-automation, the instances of ornamental politics fashioned to please the museum-educational complex, the nebulous promises of design schools. While reviving historical expressions of disenchantment, Silvio Lorusso examines present-day memes and social media rants. To depict this disheartening crisis, he crafts a new critical vocabulary for readers to build upon. What this exposé reveals is both worrying and refreshing: rather than producing a meaningful order, design might be just about inhabiting chaos.

AVAILABLE AT 22€
via setmargins.press (@setmargins link in bio) or local bookstores!

@paz.zip @silvio.lorusso

#setmarginspublications #graphicdesign #designtheory #disillusionment

POST-SCRIPT: a new series of videos going behind the scenes with Set Margins’ authors, made by Sofia Paz @setmargins_postscript

This POST-SCRIPT premiere, second part of two, is with ‘Consipratorial Design’ author/designer Carlo Bramanti, who was helped in design by Sofia doing this POST-SCRIPT series, so a nice close start!

Design and Conspiracy Theories, two things that are often thought of as opposites. Design is generally perceived as something that simplifies and targets the essence of things; something that should say the Truth. Conspiracy theories instead are far-fetched and create confusion. Design is expected to be able to bypass false rhetorics because its very premise is to deal with how things work in reality. However, what is argued in this book is that design and conspiracy theories mirror each other. They act with similar goals and they adopt comparable representations. They intersect in their practices and in their artifacts because they share a common ground at their fundaments. This common ground is Conspiratorial Design.

AVAILABLE AT 24€
via setmargins.press (@setmargins link in bio) or local bookstores!

@paz.zip @carlo_bramanti_

#setmarginspublications #graphicdesign #conspiratorialdesign #graphicpractice #infographics

POST-SCRIPT: a new series of videos going behind the scenes with Set Margins’ authors, made by Sofia Paz @setmargins_postscript

This POST-SCRIPT premiere is with ‘Consipratorial Design’ author/designer Carlo Bramanti, who was helped in design by Sofia doing this POST-SCRIPT series, so a nice close start!

Design and Conspiracy Theories, two things that are often thought of as opposites. Design is generally perceived as something that simplifies and targets the essence of things; something that should say the Truth. Conspiracy theories instead are far-fetched and create confusion. Design is expected to be able to bypass false rhetorics because its very premise is to deal with how things work in reality. However, what is argued in this book is that design and conspiracy theories mirror each other. They act with similar goals and they adopt comparable representations. They intersect in their practices and in their artifacts because they share a common ground at their fundaments. This common ground is Conspiratorial Design.

AVAILABLE AT 24€
via setmargins.press (@setmargins link in bio) or local bookstores!

@paz.zip @carlo_bramanti_

#setmarginspublications #graphicdesign #conspiratorialdesign #graphicpractice #infographics