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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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...

Claves para convertirte en un profesional de la fotografía

Captar momentos especiales e irrepetibles en una imagen no es fácil, se necesita conocer ciertas claves para convertirte en un profesional de la fotografía y de esta forma determinar el lugar y momento adecuados para tus tomas, cuidando detalles como luz, enfoque, contraste, resolución y otros aspectos para lograr los mejores resultados. ¿A qué se dedica un fotógrafo profesional? Se...

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Inauguraciones en el CAAM

El CAAM (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) inicia agosto con cuatro exposiciones simultáneas: un homenaje a Lola Massieu y Miró Mainou, una monográfica para recuperar el trabajo de José Martín junto a otra que se abre en diálogo y una colectiva, una en la que nos enseñan las últimas adquisiciones.  Lola Massieu / Miró Mainou. Homenaje 1921-2021 El 5 de...

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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...