There is currently a whole stream of news in the media currently talking about all kinds of issues including contraception, abortion, FGM, and period poverty/tampon tax, all of which seems to fall under the umbrella of Reproductive Rights. Events like the Women’s Marches around the world are making protest a key form of social change again and it could work well using protest as a platform for Reproductive Rights.
Manifestos have been a key part of feminist movements for a long time, and it felt incredibly appropriate to use a manifesto as a framework for the form the project would take. I wrote out a manifesto that outlines a need for change and then thought that typesetting my manifesto in the typeface I created would be a more subtle way to reference the suffragettes and to provide the manifesto with even more personality behind it. I decided to screen print the manifesto which I found immensely valuable as it meant that I’d designed a typeface, written a manifesto, typeset the manifesto in the typeface, and screen printed it which meant that the process had been completed by me from start to finish.
I took the rough concept of purple and green suffrage colours and made them fluro which provided a more punky vibe which I liked because it not only gave a nod to the suffragette period and to the third wave of feminism which was defined by a punk aesthetic.
