URL: https://www.setmargins.press/engage/
Critical and creative publishing to rethink and evolve visual communication and forms of cooperation
A wonderful small press that's focused on inclusive production of publishing books, with support in the processing of editorial framing, design, finances, publishing, print matters, distribution, promotion, sales, and operating as an editorial and graphic studio.
Their mission (or..."non-exhaustive, continuously developing, publishing pamphlet"):
- Set Margins’ is not a group, nor a movement but a support structure to and platform for independent release.
- Set Margins’ operates through cultural autonomy, self-governance, platform and effort. (This is why we cannot be a not for profit)
- Set Margins’ is here to push for demanding topics and tools to mind and matter, not for demanding people.
- Set Margins’ follows the needs of the project, welcomes creative openings, and stimulates the capacity of involved effort along mutual consent.
- Set Margins’ uses designs’ qualities as means while it applies a conscious path, never perceives design as an end, and discusses design politics.
- Set Margins’ is editorially real in the truly committed, self-critical and creative setting of the frame
- Set Margins’ allows for processes to fail, to go well or to evolve.
- Set Margins’ urges independence of all involved: to find common ground or leave common ground.
- Set Margins’ ignores the neoliberal social leash of the free-market government.
- Set Margins’ opposes the corporate culture’s financial ruling of our cultural economy.
- Set Margins’ is not market-demand driven, by creating a new offer it builds on currently non-existent target groups.
- Set Margins’ reaches out to engage, organize and connect internationally in solidarity.
- Set Margins’ uses the publishing world’s infrastructure and creates collaboratively to build a recognized and supported platform.