The exhibition entitled Design Act – Society Shaping in the Oeuvre of Lajos Kassák was organized to approach Kassák's art through critical design theory.

Applied graphics has been an important medium in social and political life . Some design trends use design mechanisms when a society is changing. They use its logic and activity too, keeping in mind social responsibility, sustainability, the interests of disadvantaged groups They are also sensitive to inequalities and issues of power relations.

We find prelude of society shaping design in those trends of historic avant-garde that are connected art issues with political objectives and also questioned the exclusivity of aesthetic interpretations. Lajos Kassák's commitment to social ideas offer us an opportunity to review his art from the reality-shaping aspect of critical design..