Amazon.com: Who Can Afford to Be Critical?: An Inquiry into What We Can’t Do Alone, as Designers, and into What We Might Be Able to Do Together, as People: 9789083270630: Matos, Afonso, Aubert, Danielle, Batt, Somnath, Brown, J. Dakota, Class, Evening, D'Aprile, Marianela, Fisher, Jack Henrie, Lorusso, Silvio, Mihalko, Greg, Smart, Alan: Books

https://www.amazon.com/Who-Can-Afford-Critical-Designers/dp/B0BT4SMGS7

‘Critical Designers’ produced by an increasing number of design schools are prompted to address social, political and environmental issues through their practices. Yet, who can afford to continue such effort after graduation? In a dynamic style holding multiple voices, Who Can Afford To Be Critical? discusses the limits that affordability, class and labour impose upon […]

Who can afford to be critical? - Set Margins'

https://www.setmargins.press/books/who-can-afford-to-be-critical/

I think this was an iteration of my hero

??? idk

iteration playing with shapes.

circles were supposed to have a hover interaction that led to 1 of my 3 case studies (we'll see if I experiment with these interaction iterations further)

also liked this one w the contrast between the grey and pink but was not feeling the blush to encapsulate myself as a color ー not me 

(also the gradient from pink to grey is not smooth oh my gosh the text needs more breathing room)

thread of iterations that did not make it to the current state of my portfolio (2024)

another link for accessibility ー
https://www.amazon.com/Who-Can-Afford-Critical-Designers/dp/B0BT4SMGS7

loved this iteration but also was unfortunately not accessible 💔

ignore the copy I j didn't want to use lorem ipsum 💀

Nice! Gradient is 90% of the way there, this looks good!

btw links to one of the books I'm reading that I'm really loving so far
https://www.setmargins.press/books/who-can-afford-to-be-critical/

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