The Design Comedy. The Descent Through Inferno

Title: The Design Comedy. The Descent Through Inferno
Published by: Set Margins, Eindhoven
Release Date: 2025
Contributors: Otto von BUSCH
Genre: design / typography
Pages: 139
ISBN13: 978-90-834993-6-9

7.990 HUF

 

Design is a hellmouth of disappointment and a harrowing pit of professional failure. In this paraphrase of Dante’s 'Divine Comedy', Otto von Busch, a pitiful design professor, searches for the design workshop at Parsons. Proving inaccessible, the lost professor falls into despair. However, a recently fired workshop technician, Virgil, appears to know the way. They descend the crumbling corridors of design’s collapse, through the ruins and anguish of broken promises, failed research, self-absorbed design theorists, and hypocritical designers, to the very nadir of design’s inferno.