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BLACK
LIVES
MATTER

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

Jasmine Zang

KILL THE LIGHTS

KILL THE LIGHTS is a campaign comprised of a collection of smaller projects aimed to shed a light on the issues surrounding light pollution on human health.

The wordmark for KILL THE LIGHTS uses Beretta Sans, skewed slightly to capture the qualities of neon signage and the repetitive forms reminiscent of blurry street lights at night. The identity was created using cyanotype, a photographic printing process that uses light to create images. The campaign uses blue throughout, inspired by the Prussian blue pigment produced by the oxidation of the photosensitive solution during the image-making process.

Identity
Publication
Social Practice
Typography

About the designer

My name is Jasmine Zang. My work and interests in design mainly encompass branding, packaging, print design, and typography.

Favourite typefaces?

Akkurat

The information guide synthesizes my research with a focus on the effects of light pollution on human health. The guide is to inform the most vulnerable and susceptible to the damaging effects of light pollution on methods of reducing harm from artificial light at night.
The following work focuses on the disappearance of the Milky Way in urban and suburban areas, and makes commentary on the shift from a natural night sky to one full of twinkling artificial objects.
“Star”-to-“star” is tongue-in-cheek representation of a dot-to-dot activity book that uses artificial objects that shine in the night sky as its imagery. Once the image has been drawn, the reader can flip open the gatefold page to reveal a fact pertaining to the “star”.

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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BLM RESOURCES