In a Manner of Reading Design features different texts and artistic contributions meant to create a space in which debate can unfold, a debate that considers the impossibility of an unbiased position and as such reminds us of our dependence on the other in any conception—and any project design might aspire to.

To accompany his exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig, this book presents the work of the Swiss-American graphic designer Zak Kyes. The exhibition and publication bring together a range of works by Kyes, as well as works by a host of collaborators, presenting contemporary graphic design as a practice that mediates, and is mediated by, its allied disciplines.

What happens when you look at design as some thing more than a service-based relationship between client and designer? What new strategies and models help to question and challenge the limits of design? What outer circumstances influence this kind of practice?