The Design Comedy: The Descent through Inferno

A beleaguered Parsons professor finds himself amid a creative hellscape as he ventures toward the root of design's evil

Design is a hellmouth of disappointment and a harrowing pit of professional failure. In this paraphrase of Dante's Divine Comedy, Otto von Busch, a pitiful design professor, searches for the design workshop at Parsons. Proving inaccessible, the lost professor falls into despair. However, a recently fired workshop technician, Virgil, appears to know the way. They descend the...