Designers from around the world including Pentagram's Giorgia Lupi have collaborated to make a typeface out of punctuation for period poverty in schools.
April 22, 2021 4:07 pm
A group of 140 designers from around the world has developed a font “made entirely out of periods” to protest period poverty in North America.
Periods for Periods is an initiative campaigning for free menstrual products in schools. According to the group, one in five teens can’t afford period products and a further one in seven have missed school due to a lack of period supplies.
Product shortages as a result of the coronavirus pandemic have only served to make the issue worse, and the group says black women and women of colour are affected at higher rates.
Written collaboratively by a diverse team of designers,
Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Design (Princeton Architectural Press, May 11, 2021) aims to add new voices to the conversation around DEI and design and reshape how we view and think about our world.
Featuring interviews, essays, typefaces, and projects from dozens of contributors across a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds, abilities, gender identities, and positions of economic and social privilege,
Extra Bold is filled with stories and ideas that don’t show up in other career books or design overviews.
The book opens with essays that bring fresh ideas to feminism, racism, inclusion, and nonbinary thinking. Later, it explores power structures and how to navigate them. Interviews showcase people at different stages of their careers, and biographical sketches explore individuals whose stories haven’t been told due to sexism, racism, and ableism.
Remembering Milton Glaser: an esteemed panel honours the graphic design legend in online event
Featuring his Push Pin Studio co-founders Seymour Chwast and Reynold Ruffins, as well as Steven Heller and Ellen Lupton, the event hosted by The Cooper Union will discuss his life and legacy.
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A free online event hosted by The Cooper Union gathers an esteemed panel of designers to discuss the life and legacy of Milton Glaser, eight months after his death. Taking place this Wednesday 24 February, Remembering Milton Glaser will feature Walter Bernard, Gail Anderson, Steven Heller, Ellen Lupton, Stephen Doyle, Steve Hindy, Mirko Ilić, Jonathan Key and Zipeng Zhu, not to mention Glaser’s co-founders in Push Pin Studios, Seymour Chwast and Reynold Ruffins. Each has a personal and professional link to Glaser, and, in turn, remarkable stories to share about him and his work.
Game-changing design: Motion graphics, specifically 3-D, is having a profound impact on how we think about design. The work from shops like
ManvsMachine, Tendril and, most recently, Mach pushes back on the avant-garde that has dominated the past decade and focuses on a newfound maximalist approach.
Helpful guidance:
Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans discusses how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling. The book provides clear exercises and concepts to help you pinpoint what brings you joy in your life, and how you can have that meaning every day.