This is a far cry from the usual political design work I post about, but I wanted to write about Taylor Swift’s album rebranding. For those of you who haven’t been on Twitter (or any social media, frankly) lately, Taylor Swift re-released her old album Fearless with both re-recorded and Read more…
During the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement last summer, I found myself discovering Black creatives that I probably would have never found otherwise. A big catalyst of this discovery was the social media page/movement Where Are The Black Designers. Started as an Instagram page, WATBD uplifts the voices Read more…
I know there have been several posts about NFTs, but I wanted to make another one based on my utter lack of understanding of them and my love for SNL. On this past Saturday’s episode, SNL cast members Pete Davidson, Chris Redd, and Kate McKinnon performed a song called “NFTs”, Read more…
My personal favorite resource and source of inspiration is the Center for American Politics and Design’s database of campaign design. The site synthesizes all of the designs from Congressional, presidential, and gubernatorial races across the United States over the past 3 years. Users have the ability to filter designs by Read more…
Let’s talk about the digital toolkit revolution — the trend in campaign branding to create an online database of downloadable resources and social media content. Digital toolkits are a device of young campaigns. The importance of social media has skyrocketed in recent election cycles, so campaign executives turn to digital Read more…
Happy International Women’s Day! In honor of this momentous day, I thought I’d discuss Instagram’s story graphics for Women’s History Month. Check out the graphics in this post! Instagram invited five incredible female designers to create stickers for Instagram stories. The first graphic, a yogi with a limb disability, was Read more…
Ever the sucker for political design, I’ve been harshly judging the New York City mayoral candidates’ campaign designs for months now. The candidate I would support if I could vote in the election is Dianne Morales, a nonprofit executive from Brooklyn, and her campaign design experienced an incredible rebrand. Below Read more…
For my fellow political nerds out there, I wanted to share this font and some background! This year, each state has a special legislative session to redraw their Congressional districts based on the demographic information from the US Census in 2020. Gerrymandering occurs when these districts are drawn to give Read more…