Creative and critical
Introducing Set Margins’ publications
Creatively applying the cultural politics of content, form, and style whilst critically dissecting these to spark literacy, Set Margins’ publications enforces the voices of marginalized cultural agendas. As a support structure, a platform for production, a network and publisher, Set Margins’ frames current impulses with particular focus for communication, forms of cooperation, and involved politics. Set Margins’ delivers critical experiences, discourse, and dialogue, stands up for liberties and builds critical community. Set Margins’ is built on Freek Lomme’s experience as founder and director of Onomatopee (2006–22), who founded Set Margins’ in 2022.
About 30 titles have been released so far, many are expected. You might have come across first titles, very much sparking (graphic) design discourse such as What Design Can’t Do by Silvio Lorusso, Who can afford to be critical? By Afonso Matos (et. al.) or What is post-branding? by Jason Grant and Oliver Vodeb.
New titles, only just hitting the shelves include female voices such as in Cycles, the Sacret and the Doomed by Morgane Billuart, on the need(s) to care for PMMD in our technocratic society and To Hold Your Heart in Your Teeth: Women’s Work by Simona Bortis-Schulz, introducing the subject of the Romanian blouse, a traditional wear preserved by women (now appropriated by right-wing populists) or grass-roots titles such as the book featuring practice-based institutional critique, working up from the actual museum floor by Aldo Giannotti, titled the upside-down museum, edited by Andrea Steves and Freek Lomme and Kevin Yuen Kit Lo’s book Design Against Design, presenting cause and consequence of a dissident design praxis. Just have a look at our website: setmargins.press or ask for our titles at your local independent bookstore.
Meetup with Set Margins’
You can meet Set Margins’, amongst others.
April 24, 6:30:
Bungee Space New York
for various launches including What Design Can’t Do with author Silvio Lorusso, To Hold Your Heart in Your Teeth, Women’s Work with designer/author Simona Bortis-Schulz, Design Against Design with Kevin Yuen Kit Lo, Provocations on Media Architecture with Ian Callender, We Are All….. Now with Daniel Tucker, A Visible Distance with Matt Owens and more!
April 25-28: Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair
April 26-28: Libros Mutantes Art Book Fair Madrid
May 10: Bring Your Own Book Fair Amsterdam
May 11–12: Seattle Art Book Fair / Reykjavík Art Book Fair
May 17–18: Offprint Art Book Fair London (at Tate)
Cooperate / propose
Set Margins’ brings visibility and engagement to publishing ambitions. Starting from productive support in the integral processing of editorial framing, design, finances, publishing, and print matters, and in delivering through distribution, promotion, and sales. Set Margins’ is open to proposals and cooperation. Subjects of projects might equally rest on or connect with the visible surface of the everyday or be more thoughtful and demanding. As life itself, the word of Set Margins’ is practice based, a true story supporting the practice of life and work. The only thing we should is what we could. Experimental, fictional, hypothetical, wandering or otherwise. Clear cut where possible, informed and informing, inspired and inspiring.
Set Margins’ brings visibility and engagement to publishing ambitions. Starting from productive support in the integral processing of editorial framing, design, finances, publishing, and print matters, and in delivering through distribution, promotion, and sales. Set Margins’ also offers services as an editorial and graphic studio.
Public responsibility
Set Margins’ publications pursues transparency from mission to praxis to responsibility. If interested, please have a look here.
Distribution
Artbook/ D.A.P. for North America, Public Knowledge Books for UK, Perimeter for Australia and Idea Books for all other, or reach out to Set Margins’ directly.
