Graphic Design

The lack of written accounts about Norwegian graphic design is a chance to question norms and explore non-traditional historiographic methods.

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.

In search of Egyptian identity from ancient Pharaonic civilization, Islamic heritage, pan-Arabism, and back through the study of its banknotes.

Texts, lectures and other materials that help disrupt the Eurocentric status quo in type design education and practice.

Tereza Bettinardi on design publishing, open education, and the micro-politics of daily practice.

How the digital gallery Swatch Bharat is documenting the rapidly disappearing native Indian aesthetic.

An analysis of the colonizing word coined for the sake of othering design languages that dare to challenge Eurocentric norms.

In search of the Black aesthetic and my own identity via Louise E. Jefferson.

How sports—in particular the Olympics—perpetuate multiple systems of oppression.

How a group of women designed the Black Panther logo.

The textbook closing the gap on the history of Arab graphic design.

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.”