This is beautiful and yes to paying artists a living wage, but I always am a bit sad when I click through on a beautiful design that is also a form of activism and I see that the price of the t-shirt is a week’s worth of groceries for a family of four. I would love to see more accessible activist design.
Agreed that this is beautiful! But I also would like to point out that this design draws from a Paris student protest poster of the 1960s with a critical message. In that poster, the french “participer” is conjugated, but the final “ils” is “ils profitent,” critiquing the system of public participation that extracts participatory labor from students while benefits flow to the few.
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Besides swissmiss, Tina founded and runs TeuxDeux, CreativeMornings and her Brooklyn based co-working community Friends Work Here. (She also started Tattly which was recently adopted by BIC)
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This is beautiful and yes to paying artists a living wage, but I always am a bit sad when I click through on a beautiful design that is also a form of activism and I see that the price of the t-shirt is a week’s worth of groceries for a family of four. I would love to see more accessible activist design.
Sep 15th, 2020 / 7:02 pm
Agreed that this is beautiful! But I also would like to point out that this design draws from a Paris student protest poster of the 1960s with a critical message. In that poster, the french “participer” is conjugated, but the final “ils” is “ils profitent,” critiquing the system of public participation that extracts participatory labor from students while benefits flow to the few.
Sep 18th, 2020 / 1:07 pm