Type designer Marie Boulanger has written a book about how typography is a «dangerous tool» for reinforcing gendered stereotypes and bias in design. Called XX, XY: Sex, Letters and Stereotypes, the book unpacks how fonts can be assigned masculine or feminine associations that are used to reinforce the binary when designing products and packaging. Top: the back of the book displays...
Marie Boulanger explores how typography perpetuates gender stereotypes
Type designer Marie Boulanger has written a book about how typography is a «dangerous tool» for reinforcing gendered stereotypes and bias in design. Called XX, XY: Sex, Letters and Stereotypes, the book unpacks how fonts can be assigned masculine or feminine associations that are used to reinforce the binary when designing products and packaging. Top: the back of the book displays...
Marie Boulanger explores how typography perpetuates gender stereotypes
Type designer Marie Boulanger has written a book about how typography is a «dangerous tool» for reinforcing gendered stereotypes and bias in design. Called XX, XY: Sex, Letters and Stereotypes, the book unpacks how fonts can be assigned masculine or feminine associations that are used to reinforce the binary when designing products and packaging. Top: the back of the book displays...
Marie Boulanger explores how typography perpetuates gender stereotypes
Type designer Marie Boulanger has written a book about how typography is a «dangerous tool» for reinforcing gendered stereotypes and bias in design. Called XX, XY: Sex, Letters and Stereotypes, the book unpacks how fonts can be assigned masculine or feminine associations that are used to reinforce the binary when designing products and packaging. Top: the back of the book displays...
Teoría del color. Guía definitiva para comprenderla
La teoría del color es una de las grandes asignaturas que todo diseñador debería dominar. Tan solo hay que pensar que un usuario tarda una media de 90 segundos en hacer un juicio subconsciente sobre un producto y la mayoría de las veces, esa evaluación se realiza solo en función del color. Esto significa que […]...
A Snapshot of the Design Industry in Five Graphs
The design industry can feel like a black box, especially when it comes to finding a job and getting paid. Everyone has been there—the anxious feeling of negotiating a salary, the fear of asking for too much, or too little. This lack of transparency can impede progress towards creating more equitable, diverse, and inclusive workplaces. We dug into the latest...
Oppo Find X3 Pro, un mundo nuevo por descubrir
El nuevo teléfono de la marca china Oppo Find X3 Pro es una opción premium, con un rendimiento al más alto nivel y una cámara muy cerca de las opciones profesionales. Antes de empezar querría dejar claro que este artículo no es un contenido promocionado y por otro lado que no soy un experto en […]...
everwave
The agency g31 in collaboration with Thanh-Thao Tran, Anna Fitzon, Stephanie Butzen, and Marie Volmar has designed the new branding for marine start up everwave: a start-up that develops sustainable solutions for global plastic pollution. When the everwave team approached g31, their name was Pacific Garbage Screening. The old name was based on CEO Marcella Hansch’s master’s thesis at RWTH...
Paul Woods on handling a creative crisis
Whether you’re a fresh grad still finding your way or an old hand who’s lost faith, designer Paul Woods has some sage words of wisdom to help navigate creative angst The post Paul Woods on handling a creative crisis appeared first on Creative Review....
Celebrating the legacy of the Tokyo 1964 Olympics
1964 Tokyo Olympics official poster, courtesy of Prince Chichibu Memorial Sports Museum Tokyo 1964: Designing Tomorrow brings together an array of artefacts from the 1964 Games, as a way of exploring their creative and technological legacy, as well as the event’s impact on ideas around Olympics branding. Many of these have never been on show in the UK, and offer...
A new photo book documents agricultural communities in Cuba
“No one depends more on nature, nor is so afraid of its excesses, than the campesino,” writes Domingo Cuza Pedrera in the introduction to Richard Sharum’s new photo book Campesino Cuba. Cuza Pedrera grew up a campesino, spending his childhood climbing trees and making toys, before graduating to helping with the harvest or small chores as his elders tended to...
Las asociaciones participaron en la selección de empresas del Acuerdo Marco a pesar de saber las condiciones de licitación
Las diferentes asociaciones de profesionales en representación del sector participaron de la selección del pool de empresas siendo conocedoras de las condiciones que se daban en el pliego de condiciones para la licitación de proyectos para el Ayuntamiento de Madrid. En el expediente (ver aquí) se puede comprobar tanto los asistentes como las valoraciones y […]...











