Featuring bold creators who challenge established systems and advocate for transformation across disciplines, FRAME’s summer issue examines the revolutionary potential of design as a vehicle for activism. Here’s what you’ll find inside.  

• Discover the unconventional products defining the market today, from designs that prioritize local resources to chairs that question common perceptions.   

• Meet four studios that use their work as a form of resistance. Find out how design can be democratized beyond the highbrow or exclusive, how residential interiors can reject market-driven norms, how urban spaces can fight back against inequality, and how to build on the legacy of Black design.  

• Gain insights into radical transparency in retail spaces, shows that set the stage for climate activism, and the way design can give voice to unheard youth.  

• Learn from a think-tank and political design lab how design become a tool not only for innovation but for meaningful, lasting change.  

• Stimulate your palate with a wide range of cross-disciplinary concepts that show how creative work can challenge harmful systems while creating new paths towards fairness and justice for all. 

Get your copy of FRAME 162 now.