A DESIGNER AT THE END OF
THE DREAM CAREER
Collaboration with: Bernard Gerber & Mariana Esteves
Photography: Frances Rocha
Genre: Editorial Design
Year: 2025
This Riso Printing publication gathers the work of Communication Design students under the theme “A Designer at the End of…”, a phrase that echoes post-modernist declarations of the “end of everything” to critically reflect on the state of the discipline and the world. Students were invited to confront the symbolic and practical significance of reaching the end of our academic journey. Their contributions were then compiled under a common theme, “The Dream Career”—ultimately, the path we carve out for ourselves; the thrill of starting out, the irony of disillusionment, and the return of hope that keeps us moving forward.
The publication was entirely self-published-printed with the faculty’s risograph machine, then trimmed, folded, stapled by hand in the design lab, giving each copy a distinct, tactile quality.