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As designers committed to decolonizing our practices, we feel that it is important for us to help amplify Black voices that have historically been underrepresented within our discipline. We are using this site as a public platform in support of Black Lives Matter within our communities and beyond. We ask that you take some time alongside looking at our work, to explore these collected resources.

FOR DESIGNERS:

Dear white & non-Black POC designers
Where are the Black designers?
Decolonial Teaching in Action

FOR EVERYONE:

Anti-Racist Resource Guide: Become a better ally
A Radical Library (incl. books, texts, podcasts, & articles)
How to talk to people who disagree
How to support Black artists

Simreet Kaur Sandhu

Indebted - The Untold Story of Sikhs in Ontario (1960-1999)

Indebted is a project which highlights the successes, challenges and the overall process of how Sikhs in Ontario settled between the mass immigration years of 1960 and 1999. Due to copyright agreements with Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail, contact me to access the full project.

As a child of an immigrant who worked extremely hard to earn a living, I was able to learn about the hardships and successes immigrants went through in the process of migrating from a country that oppresses minorities, to a country that — at the time — alienated minorities. Unfortunately, not everybody gets the opportunity to learn about these stories, which results in issues such as misrepresentation, racism and ungratefulness. To tackle this concern and shed light on the stories of diligent immigrants, I pursued the topic of Ontario’s Sikh history as my thesis topic in my Graphic Design capstone course at OCADU."

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About the designer

Hello! I'm Simreet Kaur and I am a typoholic, minimalist and adventurous designer. I am driven by my passion to explore social issues. I spend a lot of my time analyzing what exists, so I can discover what does not. Besides engaging with my community through social work, I aim to help make the world a better place with a design that is anchored in personal values of everyday life. Despite being ambitious, I believe that the biggest secret to accomplishing any goal is to work hard, while staying humble. I enjoy cooking and love being in nature.

Favourite typefaces?

Avenir and Garamond

Cover of Indebted, the book.
Inside spreads of Indebted, the book. These spreads display many different elements of the book such as the timeline along the right side of each spread and an "About Sikhi" tab inside of the second spread.
Headlines and images with the "archive" icon in its caption indicates that the full article of the headline or image is available to read in its corresponding archive folder. Events are colour coded based on event types (community, spiritual, discrimination, etc.).
Archive folder for the "174 Refugees Appear in Nova Scotia" event.
Archival material for a blue-coded spiritual event.

Recession Grads is a digital archive & exhibition set to showcase the work of the Graphic Design 2020 graduating class at OCADU.

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