Chiara Barberi
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Berlin in debt guide
2024  Editorial


Berlin in Debt Guide is an ironic and semi-satirical guide to life in Berlin, created to humorously explore the contradictions of the city. Through deliberately “wrong” advice, the guide shows how surprisingly easy it is to lose all your money among absurd rents, endless clubbing, expensive brunches, and questionable creative hobbies.

The project plays with the format of a traditional travel guide and subverts it: instead of helping readers save money, it leads them step by step toward financial disaster. Through illustrations, anecdotes, and sarcastic tips, Berlin in Debt Guidebecomes an ironic lens on urban precarity, expat culture, and the romanticized myth of Berlin life.

The result is a publication that combines editorial design, satirical storytelling, and social observation, turning everyday experiences in the city into a narrative that is both humorous and critical.


TEAM: Chiara Barberi, Justine Bouvy, Devansha Babel