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...

dezeenmagazine

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...

dezeenmagazine

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...

dezeenmagazine

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...

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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...

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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...

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 […]...