Care where no-one does: Freek Lomme in conversation with Kevin Yuen-Kit Lo

Freek Lomme of Set Margins’ publishing and designer Kevin Yuen Kit Lo will discuss what feels urgent and necessary within the field of design and publishing. Through their respective practices they address the need to develop frameworks of support integral to a critical engagement with the politics of visual culture under capitalism.

Both Lomme and Lo published titles with Set Margins’ in 2024. These include Lomme’s Care where no-one does: a grassroots style guide to progressive cultural production, anticipating neoliberal to national conservative times and Lo’s Design Against Design: cause and consequence of a dissident graphic practice.

Co-presented with Set Margins’

Set Margins’ publications was initiated by Freek Lomme late 2022, named to express both cultural margins, graphic/design margins and perhaps as a pseudonym for Freek. 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. Freek background is a 20-year experience in small independent art spaces and publishing, as curator, director, editor and all of such, and has bene involved as board member in various lobby organizations, lectured, wrote about design and art etc. His engagement has always been with (visual) literacy and critical work towards rhetoric. In 2024 he published a book about this work, ‘Care where no-one does’.

Kevin Yuen Kit Lo is Assistant Professor of Communication Design and Visual Culture in the Department of Design and Computation Arts. He works at the intersections of graphic design, cultural production, and social change with a research focus on publication practices and social movements. His research is invested in exploring the tensions between material and relational studies of design as a means of fostering greater social and political autonomy.

Kevin founded the graphic design studio LOKI in 2014, working alongside community organizations, non-profits, cultural and educational institutions, unions, artists, researchers and activist groups, as part of broader movements for social change. The studio has worked on campaigns to stop racial profiling, designed protest graphics for anti-racist and anti-colonial social justice movements, created online platforms for critical journalism and supported the cultural production of marginalized writers and artists through the design of publications, exhibitions, and collaborative works.

Kevin holds an MA in Typographic Design from the London College of Printing (UAL). Prior to founding LOKI, he worked in interactive design, advertising and fashion. He is a member of the Memefest network and the Justseeds artist co-operative