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Cultural appropriation: can designers ever responsibly “borrow” from other cultures?

Design Week

.” Struggling to articulate how the loss of this hand-crafted sign actually felt, Oberoi launched the platform to record other instances of India graphic design that remained. “And what’s happening now is that people are starting to sit in the little boxes that people outside of India have created for us.”

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Is It Art, or Is It Type? What We Learn When Language is Built, Not Written

Eye on Design

Others, like Fiona Banner, Tauba Auerbach, Joi T. Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press, Every Word Unmade (Neon Alphabet), 2007. Fiona Banner replied in kind to a question about following the rules of typography. “I Both Boyce and Banner have drawn their own typefaces as part of their work. It becomes a subject.” .

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