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Honoured to have our work for featured in Johanne Sloan’s essay in ‘s Sites of Photographic Knowledge book series. Thinking through the archive and the network of the 1969 SGW protests.

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Thank you to , and for hosting the Vancouver launch of Design Against Design. Gratitude to Jaleh Mansoor for being a rigorous respondent that engaged with my work so intimately and enthusiastically. Your references were a validation to the ideas I’ve been struggling with for so long. And love to my family who were present to bridge my personal and professional worlds. What a gift!

Vancouver!!! I’ll be launching Design Against Design on July 4th at . Honoured to be in conversation with art historian and critical theorist Jaleh Mansoor. Hope to see you there!

Thank you to everyone who came out last week for the conversation and screening to launch Design Against Design at articule. Much love to for the friendship and ideas and and for hosting the event. It’s truly an honour to have my work engaged with at this level, and a blessing to able to share it in community.

Was honoured to share a small reading list surrounding Design Against Design.

Kevin Yuen Kit Lo recommends 6 books that challenge, inspire, and cut deep | Scratching the Surface Kevin Yuen Kit Lo’s new book Design Against Design argues for the urgent necessity of critical engagement and political resistance through graphic practice. Both a passionate indictment of the discipline of graphic design, and a utopian love letter to its radical potential, Lo’s collection of al...

Next Thursday, I’ll be speaking with Kaie Kellough and Balbir Singh about Design Against Design at Articule as part of Montréal Monochrome!

Who indeed? Excited to be part of this panel discussion on Thursday organized by Service Lab London, the UAL Research Society, the Nor Co-operative.

Who Can Afford to be Critical? · Luma The world is in polycrisis, and designers are being asked to put the tools of our trade to ethical and critical purpose — to address social, political and…

Design Against Design launches in Montréal/Tiohtià:ke tomorrow evening at . I’ll be speaking with , one of the amazing interviewees from the book. Food provided by our friends at and drinks from .family . Hope to see you there!

Had a great time in New York at NYABF and launching Design Against Design .space and . The Sunday walkout for PACBI in support of was beautiful and so many great conversations on agency and complicity. A lot to think about and act upon. For now, deepest gratitude to for his brilliant questions on my work, they were a true gift.

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So much gratitude for the attention, thoughtfulness, and care given to my work by , , , and . Thank you for the kind words. Design Against Design out now via . 🖤🖤🖤

It's official! Design Against Design is now out via . I was just speaking with my therapist about not knowing how to feel about this moment, I'm definitely proud of the work, and grateful for all the support, but there are a lot of other nuanced feelings and emotions I'm still working through. For now, please check it out, and stay tuned as I'm working on lining up some events around its release. Contributor copies will be sent out next week. Much more soon! 🥰🎉🔥

It’s getting real… Design Against Design via available soon!

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Status Now campaign and protest graphics for the Non-status women’s collective of .sab (2015)

Screening Truth to Power, 2014, celebrating 10 years of .politica

Howl Arts Festival posters 2012-2017. With .

Zero Future, HTMLLES 2014. Programming catalogue design for .

Hi! Just a small update on Design Against Design. I'm in the process of wrapping up the last draft of the edit, and have started working on the design of the interior.

The fundraiser has lost a bit of momentum over the last couple of weeks as I was focused on some other urgent things. Please do continue to spread the word and share it with anyone you think might be interested! I'm confident it'll get there with your support. 🔥

https://gofund.me/ed37970c

Though we're planning on winding down the studio's activities in the summer, we're still putting out a ton of work. Check out some recent(ish) projects updated on our website with more coming soon!

You can also find the introduction to our forthcoming book in the Texts section and donate to our fundraiser! 🔥

Thanks to everyone that has donated to our fundraiser thus far! We're almost halfway there in only 5 days! The introduction to the book is now available to read on LOKI's website. Please continue to spread the word and check it out here:

Design Against Design: Introduction — from Beyond to Against — LOKI The following text is the introduction to our forthcoming book Design Against Design: Cause and consequence of a dissident graphic practice . The book is scheduled to come out in Fall 2023 with Set Margins’ Press in Eindhoven, NL. Please consider supporting its publication if you can by donating