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![A Beautiful Mess: Moving Towards Non-binary Language](/content/images/2024/01/Hero_Lebo.png)
#Designing Resistance
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A Beautiful Mess: Moving Towards Non-binary Language
Transcending hegemonic expression and embracing typographic activism with the Bye Bye Binary collective.
![A Canon Misbound: Feminist Lessons in Print](/content/images/2023/01/Hero_Karoline.jpg)
#Epistemic Activism
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A Canon Misbound: Feminist Lessons in Print
The lack of written accounts about Norwegian graphic design is a chance to question norms and explore non-traditional historiographic methods.
![Judging by the Cover: Racial Bias in Design Publishing](/content/images/2022/09/Hero_leo.jpg)
#Epistemic Activism
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Judging by the Cover: Racial Bias in Design Publishing
Design books are overwhelmingly cis, male, and white. Designers: I dare you to face your bookshelf and check who is—and who isn’t—there.
![The Currency of an Identity: Designing Egyptian Banknotes](/content/images/2022/09/ATG_Nada-Ezzeldin_Cover3.jpg)
#Politics of Display
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The Currency of an Identity: Designing Egyptian Banknotes
In search of Egyptian identity from ancient Pharaonic civilization, Islamic heritage, pan-Arabism, and back through the study of its banknotes.
![A Resource Hub for Decolonizing Typography](/content/images/2022/09/Hero_DecolonizingTypo.jpg)
#Incomplete Compendia
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A Resource Hub for Decolonizing Typography
Texts, lectures and other materials that help disrupt the Eurocentric status quo in type design education and practice.
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#Designing Resistance
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“Anger is my Motto”
Tereza Bettinardi on design publishing, open education, and the micro-politics of daily practice.
![A Race Against Time](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Ritu-4.jpg)
#Living Archives
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A Race Against Time
How the digital gallery Swatch Bharat is documenting the rapidly disappearing native Indian aesthetic.
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#Epistemic Activism
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A Rejection of the Term “Vernacular”
An analysis of the colonizing word coined for the sake of othering design languages that dare to challenge Eurocentric norms.
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![Chasing Images](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Tasheka.jpg)
#Living Archives
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Chasing Images
In search of the Black aesthetic and my own identity via Louise E. Jefferson.
![The Dark Side of Pictograms](/content/images/2022/06/Hero_Mujgan.jpg)
#Politics of Display
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The Dark Side of Pictograms
How sports—in particular the Olympics—perpetuate multiple systems of oppression.
![An Accidental Game of Telephone](/content/images/2022/05/Hero_Evan.jpg)
#Objects of Interest
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An Accidental Game of Telephone
How a group of women designed the Black Panther logo.
![Histories Neglected by History](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Ghalia.jpg)
#Feminist Curricula
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Histories Neglected by History
The textbook closing the gap on the history of Arab graphic design.
![Soul Consuming](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Corin.jpg)
#Vulnerable Observers
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Soul Consuming
Researcher and designer Ann Kern talks about the difficulties of 2020, the toll of doing political design projects, and how she learned to say “No.”