MAPPING MATTERS
"Reed Words skillfully navigated the nuanced challenges of working with a suicide prevention charity that doesn't speak like one"
CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) by Reed Words is a disarmingly honest approach to suicide prevention, using humour and witty phrases in web pages, posters, social media posts and coasters to convey their message.
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The impact of this project has reached beyond the world of design as CALM has injected its voice into partnership pitches, mental health training and impacting online stat pages.
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"The show is well thought out, well laid out, and ultimately fun"
This exhibition explores contemporary artistic and stylistic representations of the north of England, particularly trends seen in the working class, through fashion and photography.
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​Showcasing contemporary photography, fashion, and multimedia alongside social documentary film and photography, this exhibition highlights how mid-20th-century depictions of life in the North of England continue to inspire and influence new generations of photographers, artists, and designers.
‘The Language of Plants' was a collaboration between ATYPICAL and house plant specialist GrowTropicals at Chelsea Flower Show. The installation was centred around a new typeface inspired by the organic forms of leaves and stems, creating a unique design language that celebrates the beauty and complexity of plants.
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​Inspired by the idea of a specimen existing within the plant and the design world, the installation acted as both a plant specimen, and a typography specimen.
"Women in Design aims to elevate the contributions of women who design in a variety of media"
This project challenges ideas around design being a male-dominated field, giving women a new voice in design in areas where they have once been excluded.
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​Equal access to art and design education was a cause championed by Sarah and Eleanor Hewitt, who established the museum of decorative arts that became the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Carrying on that legacy, this Design Topic features a selection of remarkable women in design from the museum’s collection.
"We demand an end to evictions and all rent debt"
ADG are a design collective that understands art as a tool
for liberation and believe in using their platform to build and support popular, unmediated struggle against capitalism and authoritarianism.
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Their mission is to make radical ideas more approachable in impactful designs addressing issues many working class members of the public face today. Their designs tackling issues around housing rights are amongst those most hard-hitting as they visualse their message in bold statements that cannot be ignored.
"Imagine a world where mining has become obsolete and infinite economic growth has been replaced by a more sustainable economy"
Founded in Manchester in 2013, Blush is a design agency that aim to engage audiences on new issues and topics as well as encourage change and movement.
Blush developed a report that takes a creative viewpoint set in the year 2050 – an alternative vision of the future. This 75-page design took on a handmade scrap-book aesthetic consisting of found artefacts as if they had been collated as a visual record of a former world.
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