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What Design Can't Do  Editorial, Book | 6.25 × 9.25″
Class project, RISD
May 2026




A 300-page book, typographic & editorial design for Silvio Lorusso's What Design Can't Do: Essays on Design and Disillusion. The book blends academic critique with internet native self deprecation, exploring the gap between a designer's expectations and everyday reality.

2 Typographic Voices:  
Freight Neo for Headings, conversational and legible, carries the voice of the "everyday designer." Freight Sans for body text and footnotes lets vernacular interruptions, memes and tweets, sit naturally within a rigid grid.

Drawing on design theory and internet vernacular, the project reframes typography as argument, mirroring the book's oscillation between theoretical critique and self deprecating humor.










© This edition has been produced as part of a RISD Graphic Design student project with the permission of the author, Silvio Lorusso.  

 
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