Set Margins' Publications
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Moving Beyond the Left: A Post-Left Post-Mortem in Pursuit of Freedom
$29.95 Add to cartUsing an anti-authoritarian lens, this manifesto identifies the central obstacles of Leftism and provides suggestions for reimagining pathways to freedom
In a time of ideological confusion, growing aut
- Author: Z.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 9083605205
- Language: English
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Walking as Embodied Worldmaking: Bodies, Borders, Knowledgescapes
$29.00 Read moreWritten and visual contributions from social scientists and artists offering a vibrant and multifaceted perspective on the phenomenon of walking
Walking is as much a cultural practice as it is an embod
- Author: Spahn, Lea Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: December 30 2025
- ISBN10: 9083499332
- Language: English
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Franco Dupuy: Cruising Diaries
$25.00 Read moreA photobook-cum-diary portrait of queer pleasure at its most raw, secret and uncontainable
Somewhere between photobook, artist’s book and diary, Cruising Diaries explores the elusive visual language of
- Author: Dupuy, Franco
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 9083499359
- Language: English
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Strangers Need Strange Moments Together: Designing Interaction for Public Spaces
$30.00 Read moreRecentering the human experience in public space, Andraos and Mongiat create room for the whimsical in urban life
Mouna Andraos and Melissa Mongiat, cofounders of the Montreal collective Daily tous les
- Author: Andraos, Mouna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 9083449858
- Language: English
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Fracture: Japanese Graphic Design 1875-1975
$38.00 Add to cartThe need-to-know names of Japanese graphic design from the late 19th century to the pre-digital decade, presented alongside more than 500 color images of vintage ephemera
With Fracture, author Ian Lyna
- Author: Lynam, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 450
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 908344984X
- Language: English
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A Bestiary of the Anthropocene: Hybrid Plants, Animals, Minerals, Fungi, and Other Specimens
$29.95 Read moreBack in a new compact edition, this field guide to our new world of hybrid specimens–gorgeously printed in silver ink on black paper–catalogs the conflation of the technosphere and the biosphere
Plas
- Author: Nova, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9083404188
- Language: English
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A Visible Distance: Craft, Creativity, and the Business of Design
$26.00 Read moreA practical guide to building your own design and branding firm, as told by a leading figure in the field
Part personal memoir and part professional manual by designer and creative strategist Matt Owen
- Author: Owens, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 9083404145
- Language: English
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Hands on Research for Artists, Designers & Educators
$23.00 Add to cartA user-friendly manual to research methods in art and design practices
This volume presents the Circle of Doing Research: a model to get you started in art and design research. Conceived within the co
- Author: Staal, Harma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9083404161
- Language: English
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What Design Can’t Do: Essays on Design and Disillusion
$25.00 Add to cartA witty, tongue-in-cheek discussion of design’s potentials and pitfalls
In focusing on creating preferable conditions, the discipline of design is optimistic by default. And yet, vernacular manifestati
- Author: Lorusso, Silvio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 9083350134
- Language: English
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The Failed Painter: Or: Unchained by Material Anxiety
$20.00 Read more“Ian Lynam is the Hunter S. Thompson of design writing.” -Sereina Rothenberger
A personal book about material anxiety in creative work, The Failed Painter discusses singular and multiple production pro
- Author: Lynam, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 9083318826
- Language: English
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The Impossibility of Silence: Writing for Designers, Artists & Photographers
$20.00 Read moreHow to write about your work–an expert’s guide to the craft
Ian Lynam’s The Impossibility of Silence is a book for artists, photographers and designers interested in approaching writing about their vo
- Author: Lynam, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 9083270688
- Language: English
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What Is Post-Branding?: How to Counter Fundamentalist Marketplace Semiotics
$25.00 Add to cartPart design experiment, part critical theory, part how-to manual, What Is Post-Branding? offers a creative counter to branding’s neoliberal orthodoxy
Brands aren’t just intruding on culture, they are o
- Author: Grant, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 908327067X
- Language: English
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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
$17.00 Read moreOn 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
- Author: Matos, Afonso
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 9083270637
- Language: English
