Sitting with the Mess

INTERVIEW:
Of Common Interest

“We are embedded in hetero-patriarchal, western systems that have certain beliefs in them that are really rigid. And in order for us to do the work, we have to smuggle.”

INTERVIEW:
Loraine Furter

“Thinking about how I can use design tools to transform things and contribute to diversifying things—that’s really where I think our responsibility in terms of designers and teachers lies.”

INTERVIEW:
Ramon Tejada

“I just want to see people who look like me be part of it and not just be tokenized.”

INTERVIEW:
Jane Connory

“Don’t exclude the minorities, because that’s not designing properly. Designers have to give a voice to those with the quiet voices, especially in human centred design.”

INTERVIEW:
Catherine Griffiths

“Promoting our presence in this space by being active and questioning things, and challenging notions, and being prepared to be disliked, or to lose your client base or project, all those things are a form of activism.”

CROSSWORDS:

tools to sit with some messy design history by Dennis Grauel, Zenobia Ahmed
and Nina Gibbes

EXEGESIS:
Nina M Gibbes

Sitting with the mess: making space in graphic design to address issues of gender and diversity

This project was researched, designed and submitted on stolen land. I acknowledge all First Nations people as the traditional custodians of all lands this digital platform reaches and pay my respects to elders past present and future. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.

Typeset in Schflooze by Dennis Grauel and Cirrus Cumulus by Clara Sambot.

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Sitting with the Mess

“We are embedded in hetero-patriarchal, western systems that have certain beliefs in them that are really rigid. And in order for us to do the work, we have to smuggle.”

“Thinking about how I can use design tools to transform things and contribute to diversifying things—that’s really where I think our responsibility in terms of designers and teachers lies.”

“I just want to see people who look like me be part of it and not just be tokenized.”

“Don’t exclude the minorities, because that’s not designing properly. Designers have to give a voice to those with the quiet voices, especially in human centred design.”

“Promoting our presence in this space by being active and questioning things, and challenging notions, and being prepared to be disliked, or to lose your client base or project, all those things are a form of activism.”

tools to sit with some messy design history by Dennis Grauel, Zenobia Ahmed and Nina Gibbes

Sitting with the mess: making space in graphic design to address issues of gender and diversity

tools to sit with some messy design history by Dennis Grauel, Zenobia Ahmed
and Nina Gibbes