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Over the past two decades, the relationship between politics and new media has tightened steadily, giving rise to a vortex of ever-increasing magnitude and reaching the proportions of a full-blown storm – a Superstorm. Within the Superstorm occur increasingly complex, unexpected and inextricable events, where politics is mixed with entertainment and communication is hyper-mediated through algorithms, memes and alternate realities. And of course, interacting with them is becoming increasingly complex. Since the dawn of the Superstorm, design has played a very important role in politics – but can the same be said today? At a time in history when designers are asked to confront the political and social challenges of the present, they seem to be experiencing a stalemate. Anchored in a nostalgic past, designers who want to interact with politics face a great number of challenges involving issues such as agency, mediation, and authorship. But at the same time, it might be precisely this uncertain future which holds the key to questioning, critiquing, and reformulating their role and purpose within the political sphere. Written from a historical-critical perspective, Superstorm: Politics and Design in the Age of Information traces the development of the Superstorm from the 1960s to the present and proposes new coordinates that designers can follow in order to, eventually, face its relentless evolution.