The Women’s Design + Research Unit (WD+RU) was founded in 1994 to raise awareness about women working in design.
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See our new archive! We are celebrating 30 years of friendship, activism, and collaboration. See our new WD+RU archive on Instagram: @wdandruff
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Pussy Galore featured in ‘Same Bold Stories?: Typeface design by women and queers in the 20th and 21st centuries’ exhibition. Klingspor Museum, Offenbach, 20 July–24 November 2024.
Poster design: Paula Heinrich.
offenbach.de/microsite/kling…
#typedesign #womendesign
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Masayo Fukuda, contemporary master of kirie, or Japanese paper-cutting, crafting hyper detailed creatures from single sheets of paper, an art that has been around since 700 AD #WomensArt
Looking forward to seeing our poster in the travelling juried exhibition, ‘I Profess: the graphic design manifesto’, uca.ac.uk/events/galleries/-…
@UniCreativeArts Farnham 15–30 April
audreygbennett.com/baohouse/…
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📢 New exhibition: Chelsea Garden Prints by painter-printmaker Denise Ballard-Wyllie
A series of lithographs, screen prints and wood engravings inspired by a residency @ChelsPhysicGdn.
Please contact us before visiting to ensure access to the exhibition space.
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Join us on 11 April (online/in-person) to hear @jessicahische deliver the annual Justin Howes Memorial Lecture. She’ll be talking about her incredible career as a lettering artist, designer, illustrator and author – you won’t want to miss this!
🎟️tinyurl.com/JessicaHischeTal…
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"When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else"
RIP #IrisApfel
A good companion show to Women In Revolt @Tate … The Time of Our Lives at The Drawing Room, Bermondsey. drawingroom.org.uk/exhibitio…
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A cover by Maira Kalman, from this day in 1999. #NewYorkerCovers
ALT The February 1, 1999, cover of The New Yorker, by Maira Kalman.
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'Chandelier of Lost Earrings' by artists Lauren Sagar and Sharon Campbell, sculpture made from over 3,000 donated single earrings #womensart
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Linen jacket by Agnes Richter, a seamstress who was placed into an Austrian asylum during the late 1800′s and who embroidered her life story onto the jacket she made as an attempt to regain her identity #womensart
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🍻Design for “Peipingmachine × Quadraft Brewing”, Strawberry Red Bean Paste Sour IPA by @chaikunpeng ✨
#youcreativemedia #visualidentity #visualidentitydesign #posterart #typeposter #graphicdesign #graphicdesigner
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Want to come & work with our London, activist, feminist & rather sizeable LGBTQ+ #archives? We’re looking for an Archivist to join the fun! More here: bishopsgate.org.uk/work-with…
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Anita Klinz | 7. There have been lots of great book designers, but few have been as imaginative, rigorous and prolific as Anita Klinz in the 1950s and 1960s. One of her greatest strengths was her versatility, as illustrated by these two books from 1968.
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WD+RU outing to this talk @NPGLondon (after a day of being Women at Work). Fascinating stories behind iconic images.
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This kickstarter campaign by @LisaLisahuang looks fascinating. Words of Type is an encyclopedia of typographic terms, illustrated and explained in multiple languages. The first version will contain 200 terms translated into 6 languages.
Find out more here kickstarter.com/projects/hel…
The UKRI-funded Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Caucus (EDICa) has launched a UK survey of everyone working in the research & innovation (R&I) ecosystem.
Survey open until 31 Oct: surveylab.com/pageTag/Survey…
