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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

Lucy Ferreira

Typographic Mechanization

This is an ongoing project which investigates the potential of using machine learning as a tool in graphic design and the relationship between artificial intelligence creation versus human creation. Using the coding language Python, an AI machine was trained based on an input of 700 different typefaces to generate new letterforms. These generated letterforms were then optimized and typeset in different compositions to create conceptual significance.

Coding
Typography
Experimental

About the designer

Along with graduating with a Graphic Design major, I also completed a minor in Entrepreneurship & Social Innovation. I enjoy branding, typography, printmaking, publications and, connecting coding and technology to traditional design practices. My work is playful and experimental yet seeks to solve problems and provoke meaningful discussions.

Favourite typefaces?

Founders Grotesk and Suisse Works

Examples of different ways the AI machine generates the letter "A".
The letter "A" morphing into different generated versions.
Another set of morphing letterforms.
Tabloid sized posters exploring letterform textures and typesetting.
Scale comparison between previous posters and a 10 ft long screen printed poster.

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

INSTAGRAM

BLM RESOURCES