Post #2003645
2026-05-03 17:05 UTC
Important lesson for type and graphic designers from the liner notes of composer Ahmed Essyad: “[He] supported North African popular forms of expression and opposed its folklorizing through simplistic and ‘exotic’ representations (...) the real point is to open up an imaginary space where another modernity can exist outside the largely Eurocentric framework [...]”
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@monokrom@typo.social 2026-05-03 17:09
… which is about as far as you can come from riffing on local cultural expression for the purpose of consumption by an international design audience.