About me
‘Toward a Preemptive Social Enterprise’
Book Design
Book Design
Design and layout by
Katie Manos
Fast Company
Matthew’s second book, Toward a Preemptive Social Enterprise, attempted to be created in a disruptive way— in which meant to physically destroy this book before it even got to print. I ripped, burned, crumpled and shredded, disrupting the flow of reading. It was a glimpse into the kind of graphic design I would later incorporate into my work toward my thesis at Otis College of Art and Design.
“Social entrepreneurship is almost always too late. As practitioners of social enterprise, we hold the assumption that our responsibility is to exclusively act post-crisis in order to gradually chip away at a persistent problem, or to maintain a state of peace. The art of reaction is necessary, but the expectation of post-traumatic innovation as the singular starting point for an entire industry is limiting. What if social enterprise was also responsible for preemption? What if social entrepreneurs were also futurists? This is the message of our manifesto.”
❸ After graduating Otis College of Art and Design, Rapid Nostalgia lives on. This image is a design rendered to look like a risograph print, a series of postcards depicting the various cold war era emergency sirens that still stand around Los Angeles today.
❹ The first edition of How to Give Your Work Away for Free, by Matthew Manos, featured a book sleeve that folded out into a small poster.