design politics
#Epistemic Activism
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Who Gets to Design Arabic Typography?
A pledge for politicizing Arabic type design, overturning exclusionary notions of ‘quality,’ and challenging classist gatekeeping to the profession.
#Designing Resistance
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“Anger is my Motto”
Tereza Bettinardi on design publishing, open education, and the micro-politics of daily practice.
#Designing Resistance
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My Grandma is Not a Cyborg
On the oppression of everyday objects, and hacking the design gap.
#Designing Resistance
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A Designerly Inventory
Provocations to elicit questions, prompt critical thinking and help designers reconfigure their discipline.
#Complaint Collective
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Does Design Care?
Is “care” just lip service to a new buzzword in design discourse?
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#Politics of Display
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The Interlocality of Typography
A conversation with Yu Jiwon about the suggestions of typographic diversity in society and culture.
#Feminist Curricula
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Learning from the Vernacular
A conversation with Clara Balaguer on the copyother, ethical piracy, and trolling graphic design.
#Politics of Display
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In the Name of ♥
Claiming the Semiotics of Power, Colonialism & Capitalism.
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#Politics of Display
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Before and After
Make-over fantasies, flawed dualisms, and how two images side by side can change public space.
#Feminist Curricula
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A Fashion Degree in Humanswear?
Students and educators doing fashion beyond binaries and norms.
#Objects of Interest
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An Accidental Game of Telephone
How a group of women designed the Black Panther logo.
#Designing Resistance
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Against Performative Positivity
Designer, researcher and educator Danah Abdulla on consumer capitalism, complacent convenience, political ‘wokeness’, and why we should all become design dissenters.