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.
Introduction by Nicola Masciandaro
Commentary by Aaron Sechler
Type: softcover
Dimensions: 105 x 210 mm / 4.13 x 8.26 inch (portrait)
Pages: 112
ISBN: 978-90-834993-6-9
Language: English
Release date: 20250328
Binding: sewn and glued
Paper: Cordenons Stardream Crystal 285 g, Holmen TRND 2.0 80 g
Edition: 2000
Color: 1/1 pms 269U
Printer: Printon, Tallin (Est.)
Font: Miller Text, Aktiv Grotesk
Image specs: 15 pms 269U illustrations
Details: Sewn glued, Cover has flaps on both sides ( W 408mm x H 220mm), Ebossing (DOWN TO THE COVER) ON COVER
