Collections Tour: Design and Social Justice with Sabiha Basrai

The graphic designer has always had an important role in movements for social justice. This tour will highlight objects from the Letterform Archive that designers produced in service of revolutionary struggles from around the world spanning 100 years.

These objects will tell stories of international solidarity, student activism, racial justice organizing, and queer liberation. In many cases, those who produced these works risked their lives to design, print, and distribute materials to protest injustice, win campaigns, and ultimately change the cultural narrative around those issues. They utilized evolving technologies to craft their messages for mass production and disrupt oppressive narratives.

As we face a difficult political terrain today, we can learn from the social justice movements of the past. We can find inspiration from designers who devote their talents to visualizing a more just and sustainable world as we reflect on our own roles and responsibilities to fight repression.

Our docent for this in-person tour is Sabiha Basrai.

This tour was made possible by a generous grant from Hauser & Wirth.

You may also like the following events from Letterform Archive:

• Next Tuesday, 1st July, 12:00 pm, Endangered Alphabets: Beyond the Borders of Writing in San Francisco
• This August, 28th August, 06:00 pm, The Past is Always Present: Chosmos—Time Travel in Heavyweight Type with Cristian Vargas in San Francisco

Also check out other Arts events in San Francisco.