https://beckynasadowski.com becky nasadowski / white wire studio Fri, 11 Oct 2024 17:21:31 +0000 https://beckynasadowski.com en https://beckynasadowski.com/Home Sat, 25 May 2019 14:16:18 +0000 becky nasadowski / white wire studio https://beckynasadowski.com/Home <img width="5708" height="3456" width_o="5708" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b2ee77a32aa3b1176950f2c511d62d05066e3aec68d2a2797e7b15b0d1eb5828/slideshow__0003_enemies2.jpg" data-mid="43143958" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b2ee77a32aa3b1176950f2c511d62d05066e3aec68d2a2797e7b15b0d1eb5828/slideshow__0003_enemies2.jpg" /> <img width="5708" height="3456" width_o="5708" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/18c042a7394d5620b968fcb9bc0151faa01e7a58c49b6f0de5099e489cdd2445/slideshow__0007_disarticulation.jpg" data-mid="43143633" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/18c042a7394d5620b968fcb9bc0151faa01e7a58c49b6f0de5099e489cdd2445/slideshow__0007_disarticulation.jpg" /> <img width="5708" height="3456" width_o="5708" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/249ed16bf8aad2661b8bccb0e383e4a8dafd17a60aaa165f87ee3a27e610f930/slideshow__0011_neon-queens-2.jpg" data-mid="43173284" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/249ed16bf8aad2661b8bccb0e383e4a8dafd17a60aaa165f87ee3a27e610f930/slideshow__0011_neon-queens-2.jpg" /> <img width="5708" height="3456" width_o="5708" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e4beb02c2da4bc34b766be579560f3098afa38fd5cef957205fc475df9d8689b/slideshow__0001_lonelyhearts.jpg" data-mid="43143627" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e4beb02c2da4bc34b766be579560f3098afa38fd5cef957205fc475df9d8689b/slideshow__0001_lonelyhearts.jpg" /> <img width="5708" height="3456" width_o="5708" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3beb8f48c5aba7f8c2832ed4adccd85383bca5b95928fc5988e340b903c23b8a/slideshow__0002_rozalinda.jpg" data-mid="43143628" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3beb8f48c5aba7f8c2832ed4adccd85383bca5b95928fc5988e340b903c23b8a/slideshow__0002_rozalinda.jpg" /> <img width="5708" height="3456" width_o="5708" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cee86364d92ca82d5bd644aa24e746438d92085756c2c6844fb1d3c606c1ac51/slideshow__0009_mcf-2.jpg" data-mid="43175103" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cee86364d92ca82d5bd644aa24e746438d92085756c2c6844fb1d3c606c1ac51/slideshow__0009_mcf-2.jpg" /> <img width="5708" height="3456" width_o="5708" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f440c6982348326d40c6d727eecb232672b7778f9d65dd7a80b875330a7e31d1/slideshow_0018_deep-routes-6.jpg" data-mid="43238792" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f440c6982348326d40c6d727eecb232672b7778f9d65dd7a80b875330a7e31d1/slideshow_0018_deep-routes-6.jpg" /> <img width="5708" height="3456" width_o="5708" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bff02fdfa180d78a1ee56b09411e40c3fd1e783f4d05c8aff34c59dd5cb4ae24/slideshow__0008_consuming-subject.jpg" data-mid="43143634" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bff02fdfa180d78a1ee56b09411e40c3fd1e783f4d05c8aff34c59dd5cb4ae24/slideshow__0008_consuming-subject.jpg" /> https://beckynasadowski.com/Info Sat, 25 May 2019 14:16:21 +0000 becky nasadowski / white wire studio https://beckynasadowski.com/Info Becky Nasadowski is a designer, educator, and researcher at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Her work explores design’s complicity in various formations of violence within neoliberal social and physical landscapes. She designs and writes to frame, reframe, and disrupt existing narratives, and create new ones as needed.&nbsp; Her interdisciplinary approach to design research draws from the fields of feminist theory, cultural studies, and urban planning. Becky Nasadowski holds an MFA from the multidisciplinary Design program at The University of Texas at Austin and a BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She maintains an active professional design practice, collaborating with artists, activists, educational and cultural institutions, among others, and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Art at UTC. Get in touch: whitewirestudio [at] gmail [dot] com https://beckynasadowski.com/Work-Index Sat, 25 May 2019 20:18:50 +0000 becky nasadowski / white wire studio https://beckynasadowski.com/Work-Index View all design work or filter by a category:exhibition catalogs, packaging, books and artist collaborations, branding, or independent practice ➞&nbsp; View written publications &amp; conference presentations https://beckynasadowski.com/Writing-and-Presentations Tue, 29 Jun 2021 14:53:46 +0000 becky nasadowski / white wire studio https://beckynasadowski.com/Writing-and-Presentations Writing/Publications 2023 “Design Narratives and the White Spatial Imaginary”Contribution to ATTENDING [TO] FUTURES: Matters of Politics in Design Education, Research, &amp; Practice eds. Johanna Mehl and Carolin Höfler (Hamburg, Germany: adocs)Pages 219–227.&nbsp;Purchase printed book or download for free from adocs at link above.-Abstract: Despite the recent increase in scholarship on the aesthetic components of gentrification, the design field’s role in this process has yet to be fully explored. This article argues graphic design is a logical contributor to the aestheticization of displacement in the US, with designers actively supporting the neoliberal project of urban renewal and contributing to what George Lipsitz (2011) describes as the white spatial imaginary. Through an examination of design culture and two gentrified neighborhoods—East Austin in Austin, Texas, and Logan Square in Chicago, Illinois—this paper explores the rhetoric that helps materially (re)define racialized boundaries, linking signs and symbols to a shared cultural understanding of exclusionary belonging in space. In studying both professional design discourse and design in situ, we can more clearly see how designers make use of narrative patterns to participate in the rationalization, justification, and perpetuation of the white spatial imaginary. 2023 “On Design Pedagogy and Empty Pluralism”Contribution to Feminist Designer: On the Personal and the Political in Design ed. Ali Place (MIT Press)Pages 122–125. -Our students are drowning in the ubiquity of social justice buzzwords that have become hollow signifiers, new forms of what Chandra Talpade Mohanty has called “harmonious, empty pluralism.” This essay provides an overview of a studio-seminar course I designed—Politics and Ethics of Design—that focuses on the socio-political contexts in which design is produced, circulated, and consumed. A feminist pedagogy can be a compass to navigate the increasing neoliberal pressures from the university for design education to be merely subservient to capitalist demands. By insisting on a historically informed, critical, and intersectional approach to teaching design, perhaps we can also arrive at a more socially and politically responsive and feminist design culture at large. 2022 “Design Fuel for the Neoliberal Fire” Proceedings for Pivot 2021: Dismantling/Reassembling - Tools for Alternative Futures&nbsp; (organized by the Pluriversal Design Special Interest Group of the Design Research Society)Pages 159–166.&nbsp;-Abstract: University graphic design education and professional design organizations in the United States have generally avoided critical conversations regarding the field’s emphasis on professionalization and entrepreneurialism. In this paper, I will discuss two related neoliberal nodes that have persisted and particularly intensified over the past decade: one, design’s insistence on the social as a marketable passion project that escapes history and socio-political relations, and two, design’s fixation on an entrepreneurial mindset that subsumes all leisure time into labor time. I will articulate the ways design education and professional design organizations in the United States have been ideologically complicit in these efforts and offer potential pedagogical interventions toward more deeply examining the socio-political contexts in which we study, labor, and live. 2019 i hate war, but i hate our enemies even more with Heath SchultzLondon, UK: Minor Compositions64 pages. Purchase printed book or download for free from Minor Compositions.- This book is an unconventional textual object that uses détournement, collage, and experimental writing against reactionary liberalism, capitalism, and white supremacy. The layout and typographic strategies work in total service of a series of ideological juxtapositions, where visual and verbal texts—critical theory, police propaganda, militant cinema, country songs, activist histories, and white reactionary protests—are woven together. Sometimes this reads as a forced, brute collision and other times as a careful, delicate thread across the pages. Translated visuals from popular media can offer clarity in a new context or obscure and detach like a game of telephone.&nbsp; 2015“Social Design as Violence” Thesis written at The University of Texas at Austin 51 pages. &nbsp; - Abstract:&nbsp;Faculty in art schools, colleges, and universities have increasingly begun institutionalizing and professionalizing “design for good” in their curricula. Students are currently being taught that social design is good—or at least preferable to working for large corporations—but are not being urged to question this feel-good assertion. When the trendy phrase “design for good” is used, for whom is it good? Though social design can result in powerful, laudable work, it often escapes critical scrutiny—particularly in educational settings—for two reasons: 1) by default, many consider non-commercial (broadly defined) work de facto virtuous and thus assume that any and all partnerships with non-profit organizations, for example, must be ethically commendable; and 2) many consider good intentions sufficient and do not inquire about actual effects and consequences. My thesis work proposes that social design is just as ethically fraught as other kinds of design, if not more so, as any unintended harmful consequences of projects lie unnoticed and unchallenged under the guise of “doing good.” Social designers’ analyses of sociopolitical dynamics and histories of conflict are often thin. In some instances, their projects may actually enact violence, maintaining imbalances of power and perpetuating the oppression of the very individuals and communities they try to serve. I argue that insights regarding power, state control, and privileges afforded by race, class, and gender should form a critical foundation for designers seeking to work in this field. If designers and design educators are serious about design providing a “social good,” it is essential that they broaden their scope of analysis and critique to include the insights and strategies that activists and academics in other fields can offer. 2015 Review of Julie Lasky’s Design and Social Impact: A Cross-Sectoral Agenda for Design Education, Research, and Practice, a white paper based on the 2012 Social Impact Design Summit Design and Culture, Volume 7, Number 1&nbsp; |&nbsp; London, UK: Taylor &amp; Francis Pages 133–135. - In the white paper entitled Design and Social Impact: A Cross-Sectoral Agenda for Design Education, Research and Practice, Julie Lasky provides an overview of the Social Impact Design Summit held at The Rockefeller Foundation offices in New York on February 27, 2012. This review summarizes her report, calling attention to areas that may be the most valuable to readers, and offering a critique of the political blind spots of both the Summit and the report. Conference Participation June 2023 Panel Discussion Participant: “Feminist Design Pedagogy as Liberatory Practice” Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC): “Critical Making and Social Justice” Pratt Institute&nbsp; |&nbsp; New York City, NY Feb 2023“Slowing Production, Increasing Socio-Political Context: Beyond ‘Spreading Awareness’ in the Design Classroom”College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference&nbsp;/ Design Incubation Colloquium 9.2&nbsp;New York City, NY Oct 2022 “Socio-spatial Landscapes in Design Pedagogy”SECAC Annual Conference&nbsp; MICA&nbsp; |&nbsp; Baltimore, MD Nov 2021 “Design Narratives, the White Spatial Imaginary, and the Symbolic Economies of Cities” ATTENDING&nbsp;[TO] FUTURES: Matters of Politics in Design Education, Research, Practice&nbsp; Köln International School of Design&nbsp; |&nbsp; Cologne, Germany July 2021 “Design Fuel for the Neoliberal Fire”Pivot 2021: Dismantling/Reassembling - Tools for Alternative Futures (organized by the Pluriversal Design Special Interest Group of the Design Research Society) Ontario College of Art &amp; Design University (OCAD)&nbsp; |&nbsp; Toronto, Canada Nov–Dec 2020 “Centering the Politics and Ethics of Design”SECAC Annual Conference&nbsp; Virginia Commonwealth University&nbsp; |&nbsp; Richmond, VA Feb 2020 “Aesthetics of Gentrification: The Designer’s Role in Branding a City”College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference Chicago, IL Jan 2020 “Aesthetics of Gentrification: An Exploration of Branded Spaces, Language, and Design Processes in ‘Revitalized’ Neighborhoods”Architecture, Media, Politics, and Society (AMPS) Conference: Experiential Design—Rethinking Relations Between People, Objects and Environments&nbsp; Florida State University&nbsp; |&nbsp; Tallahassee, FL Oct 2019 Session Co-Chair: The Education of an Ethical Designer &nbsp;SECAC Annual Conference The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga&nbsp; |&nbsp; Chattanooga, TN Oct 2019 “Design as Reduction or Expansion” SECAC Annual Conference The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga&nbsp; |&nbsp; Chattanooga, TN https://beckynasadowski.com/Surviving-the-Long-Wars Fri, 11 Oct 2024 17:21:31 +0000 becky nasadowski / white wire studio https://beckynasadowski.com/Surviving-the-Long-Wars Surviving the Long Wars <img width="2180" height="2227" width_o="2180" height_o="2227" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/361c1835f02d18ce515e244494ae801fd2868db5d46dafa3ae6574b45783dbea/stlw_cover_cropped.png" data-mid="219614100" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/361c1835f02d18ce515e244494ae801fd2868db5d46dafa3ae6574b45783dbea/stlw_cover_cropped.png" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dbf0becf12d9738fa2dd20d5961e98882bbc8d1b65a3d679d25b6166a4dea1d4/STLW-Postcards.png" data-mid="219616181" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dbf0becf12d9738fa2dd20d5961e98882bbc8d1b65a3d679d25b6166a4dea1d4/STLW-Postcards.png" /> I was commissioned to work as the sole designer for the interdisciplinary project&nbsp; Surviving the Long Wars (STLW), developing and managing an overarching visual identity, website, assorted promotional materials, and finally, a 368-page catalog. The holistic program began in 2022 with a visiting speaker series situated at the nexus of critical ethnic studies, Native/Indigenous studies,&nbsp;and Middle Eastern studies. The program culminated in spring 2023 with the second Veteran Art Triennial &amp; Summit featuring multi-sited exhibitions held at the Chicago Cultural Center, Newberry Library, and&nbsp;Hyde Park Art Center. This trio of exhibitions saw a cumulative 50,000 visitors. The description for the book, Surviving the Long Wars: Creative Rebellion at the Ends of Empire, reads:Surviving the Long Wars offers a groundbreaking exploration into the complex histories of US warfare and militarism, illuminating the pivotal role of art in cultivating justice, healing, and abolition. Inspired by Indigenous responses to the “American Indian Wars” and artists from the Greater Middle East and South Asia challenging the “Global War on Terror,” this volume examines the intersections between these legacies of creative rebellion and the experiences of contemporary Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) veterans. Informed by the emerging Veteran Art Movement and its ties to global struggles for demilitarization and abolition, the book advocates for solidarity and imaginative resistance against war and empire. Featuring poetry, speeches, and artworks from the 2023 Veteran Art Triennial &amp; Summit held in Chicago, the collection exemplifies the Triennial’s profound impact and critical legacy. With interdisciplinary insights spanning Native and Indigenous Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Critical Ethnic Studies, and Museum and Exhibition Studies, Surviving the Long Wars celebrates Chicago’s legacy of resistance, while confronting erasures of Indigenous history. Renowned contributors such as Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Laleh Khalili, Kyle T. Mays, and Junaid Rana offer fresh perspectives on the enduring impacts of US militarism and the potential for unexpected coalitions to emerge. Surviving the Long Wars directors are Aaron Hughes, Ronak K. Kapadia, Therese Quinn,&nbsp;Meranda Roberts, Joseph&nbsp;Lefthand, and Amber Zora with&nbsp;support from the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) Institute for the Humanities Innovation Grant, UIC Award for Creative Activity, Chicago Cultural Center, Hyde Park Art Center, Newberry&nbsp;Library, DEMIL Art Fund, and the&nbsp;National Endowment for the Humanities Dialogues on the&nbsp;Experiences of War Grant.Visit the website here and order a copy of the book&nbsp;here. Book: 368 pages, 170mm x 240mm. 2024. <img width="4198" height="2998" width_o="4198" height_o="2998" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/45d7be4ac3704e17a16ea1d7a9e06840ea46c87d749fcfb99a1abbea8232655d/23_stlw_various-screens_c.png" data-mid="219614013" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/45d7be4ac3704e17a16ea1d7a9e06840ea46c87d749fcfb99a1abbea8232655d/23_stlw_various-screens_c.png" /> <img width="2070" height="1854" width_o="2070" height_o="1854" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3adcc82cdc2ddbdb57adc4d5bad64719278f0f15c00023ac88f2d4c1c7cbc10f/stlw_toc_cropped.png" data-mid="219614396" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3adcc82cdc2ddbdb57adc4d5bad64719278f0f15c00023ac88f2d4c1c7cbc10f/stlw_toc_cropped.png" /> <img width="2176" height="1644" width_o="2176" height_o="1644" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/faa933579528b754cc0344e7b2995215716d74f6133c6e9ea79a0e766e407612/stlw_interior_section-two_cropped.png" data-mid="219614432" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/faa933579528b754cc0344e7b2995215716d74f6133c6e9ea79a0e766e407612/stlw_interior_section-two_cropped.png" /> <img width="2196" height="1665" width_o="2196" height_o="1665" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e59ee83b9c3f263e2325e7af49842c0f329abac4736434bcf300dc02f1073df1/stlw_interior_chris-pappan_cropped.png" data-mid="219614424" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e59ee83b9c3f263e2325e7af49842c0f329abac4736434bcf300dc02f1073df1/stlw_interior_chris-pappan_cropped.png" /> https://beckynasadowski.com/Invitation-to-Tea Tue, 13 Jun 2023 20:33:46 +0000 becky nasadowski / white wire studio https://beckynasadowski.com/Invitation-to-Tea Invitation to Tea: A Tea Project Archive and Recipe Book <img width="2330" height="2688" width_o="2330" height_o="2688" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c4d999052be4d99f1787f6a92da4e3846cfda56cce056571af8abfbaedf07a3f/TeaProject-1_cropped.jpg" data-mid="181981080" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c4d999052be4d99f1787f6a92da4e3846cfda56cce056571af8abfbaedf07a3f/TeaProject-1_cropped.jpg" /> Artists Aaron Hughes and Amber Ginsburg commissioned me to design a 288-page book, published in fall 2022 with StepSister Press (Chicago, IL). This book supports their 10-year project, The Tea Project, connecting artifacts with global conflict. Hughes is an Iraq war vet—and a member of About Face: Veterans Against the War, formerly Iraq Veterans Against the War. Inspired by veterans’ stories of the detained men in Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp that drew flowers on Styrofoam cups, he and Ginsburg cast 49 porcelain Styrofoam teacups—reflecting each country that had or has a citizen detained in Guantánamo. They ended up making 779 total teacups, one for each individual detained. Each cup is decorated with a floral design based on the native flowers from that country. The goal is to return each cup to its home country. This book is a collection of essays, photographs of the 49 distinct cups paired with the names of detainees, tea recipes, and stories from residents of each of these countries. Order a copy here. 288 pages, 170mm x 240mm. 2022. <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/52c3d03386e4abe9f90b0ed1909d631443a4c34957d18549fc1d271a2f8e3455/TeaProject-2.jpg" data-mid="181979678" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/52c3d03386e4abe9f90b0ed1909d631443a4c34957d18549fc1d271a2f8e3455/TeaProject-2.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c609f647a9e4fc29a62c4d0e6cbc1ae7ac97a95bbfb04c9ab78ac3a7bff5b09a/TeaProject-3.jpg" data-mid="181979679" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c609f647a9e4fc29a62c4d0e6cbc1ae7ac97a95bbfb04c9ab78ac3a7bff5b09a/TeaProject-3.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7bb066755f5d78f8e3126cb71b30c60791ce08edb584a59ce00374ac1125e575/TeaProject-4.jpg" data-mid="181979680" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7bb066755f5d78f8e3126cb71b30c60791ce08edb584a59ce00374ac1125e575/TeaProject-4.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8319831e64b1589a07543c998f16b4fbe870755a955c99e5ca21cebbe230c614/TeaProject-5.jpg" data-mid="181979681" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8319831e64b1589a07543c998f16b4fbe870755a955c99e5ca21cebbe230c614/TeaProject-5.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/70acdc6f87c8e37c70e9fd1b2d76e5ec6cdeac792d80c94432eab92a427360a8/TeaProject-6.jpg" data-mid="181979682" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/70acdc6f87c8e37c70e9fd1b2d76e5ec6cdeac792d80c94432eab92a427360a8/TeaProject-6.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/182a88d8d3cb1904d7582aff019dd7c7cf544051b3cedefe5a2ffb923918353b/TeaProject-7.jpg" data-mid="181979683" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/182a88d8d3cb1904d7582aff019dd7c7cf544051b3cedefe5a2ffb923918353b/TeaProject-7.jpg" /> https://beckynasadowski.com/Neon-Queen-Collective Sat, 25 May 2019 14:16:19 +0000 becky nasadowski / white wire studio https://beckynasadowski.com/Neon-Queen-Collective Neon Queen Collective The Neon Queen Collective is a trio of Austin-based curators dedicated to highlighting work from feminist artists of color. I worked with Jessi DiTillio, Kaila Schedeen, and Phillip Townsend to design the catalog for their first major two-part exhibition with Afro-Cuban artist, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, highlighting “the United States’ and Cuba’s roles in the transatlantic slave trade, the crumbling sugar trade in Cuba, and the socioeconomic and political impact on the descendants of enslaved Africans living on the island and in the United States.” Notes on Sugar: The Work of María Magdalena Campos-Pons opened at the Christian Green Gallery on February 2, 2018.24 pages, 8.5" x 11". 2018. <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e74cdfd3b140f31e0b6b9c1bf6e756d47c6c6e038d8e352f09938bbae07c9924/Neon-Queens-1.jpg" data-mid="43251933" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e74cdfd3b140f31e0b6b9c1bf6e756d47c6c6e038d8e352f09938bbae07c9924/Neon-Queens-1.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2dc5b97a08f23d62bf324f3b9f9c42164c35241febff4958a9e29422cabe936f/Neon-Queens-4.jpg" data-mid="43251935" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2dc5b97a08f23d62bf324f3b9f9c42164c35241febff4958a9e29422cabe936f/Neon-Queens-4.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3789d67e622ea1eb8c868e424438faf1311a0771c6775f87663ce667b78533b1/Neon-Queens-6.jpg" data-mid="43251936" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3789d67e622ea1eb8c868e424438faf1311a0771c6775f87663ce667b78533b1/Neon-Queens-6.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2b4be773da969088c8cb4259b01590b2bd989dc206cf66969fc46ac1f0f73108/Neon-Queens-8.jpg" data-mid="43252801" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2b4be773da969088c8cb4259b01590b2bd989dc206cf66969fc46ac1f0f73108/Neon-Queens-8.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca3f000197133ff85579bc75c6a73c53f5fdb22995e3405ad7ce2cb44a1ad577/Neon-Queens-9.jpg" data-mid="43251937" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ca3f000197133ff85579bc75c6a73c53f5fdb22995e3405ad7ce2cb44a1ad577/Neon-Queens-9.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/372d68a829b133d6a37f5c5fa6b7a496feeff12dc26e45de1ec989c6cb2ea42e/Neon-Queens-10.jpg" data-mid="43251939" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/372d68a829b133d6a37f5c5fa6b7a496feeff12dc26e45de1ec989c6cb2ea42e/Neon-Queens-10.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8386df38c4f1097adec0f7d972757eea3e74074ddd4d5dad9d4a5a5accdd1e04/Neon-Queens-11.jpg" data-mid="43251940" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8386df38c4f1097adec0f7d972757eea3e74074ddd4d5dad9d4a5a5accdd1e04/Neon-Queens-11.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7a8224b0cd870e398fccd598d03b8c9e269a8464c27bceb1dd0eb275adca2efd/Neon-Queens-12.jpg" data-mid="43251941" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7a8224b0cd870e398fccd598d03b8c9e269a8464c27bceb1dd0eb275adca2efd/Neon-Queens-12.jpg" /> https://beckynasadowski.com/i-hate-war-but-i-hate-our-enemies-even-more Sun, 26 May 2019 15:21:09 +0000 becky nasadowski / white wire studio https://beckynasadowski.com/i-hate-war-but-i-hate-our-enemies-even-more i hate war, but i hate our enemies even more <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7a91a38814cbe1bbefa1a9a42f19b206c7916ddc1b8edcf41f7f1945fc7f7a64/Enemies-1.jpg" data-mid="43105744" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7a91a38814cbe1bbefa1a9a42f19b206c7916ddc1b8edcf41f7f1945fc7f7a64/Enemies-1.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d9869a8c5007cc6c584454cf2bbc5570f638ca3536ccd48d19f1297f5fa25aa4/Enemies-55.jpg" data-mid="43106095" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d9869a8c5007cc6c584454cf2bbc5570f638ca3536ccd48d19f1297f5fa25aa4/Enemies-55.jpg" /> I worked with&nbsp;Heath Schultz to design this book, creating an unconventional textual object that uses détournement, collage, and experimental writing against reactionary liberalism, capitalism, and white supremacy. The layout and typographic strategies work in total service of a series of ideological juxtapositions, where visual and verbal texts—critical theory, police propaganda, militant cinema, country songs, activist histories, and white reactionary protests—are woven together. Sometimes this reads as a forced, brute collision and other times as a careful, delicate thread across the pages. Translated visuals from popular media can offer clarity in a new context or obscure and detach like a game of telephone.&nbsp; George Wallace speaks to Stokely Carmichael in Watts. Radio Raheem hears conservative country music through his boombox while telling the story of Love and Hate. Darren Wilson supporters share the stage with Al Sharpton. Peter Watkins’ Communards sing La Marseillaise and Bill Withers sings Grandma’s Hands in the same set. In these conjunctions, we find the reproduction of struggle and the potential for short-circuiting the reproduction of white supremacy. This book aims to enact a critical theory of the spectacle as it joins the practical movement of negation within society. Published in collaboration with Minor Compositions. Official release to the book trade will be September 2019. Order a copy directly from Minor Compositions now, as well as access the free digital download of the book on their site. 64 pages, 5.5" x 8.5". 2019. <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/17467ea29ef12b999e42f121ca09ad985b9642ae58ee7ca81c76643e6db0cd8f/Enemies-8.jpg" data-mid="43294505" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/17467ea29ef12b999e42f121ca09ad985b9642ae58ee7ca81c76643e6db0cd8f/Enemies-8.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ea94d9001059458dea161969fba59113f4d4830f3d23e6e4c9f5d920d3bd3714/enemies-9.jpg" data-mid="43294506" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ea94d9001059458dea161969fba59113f4d4830f3d23e6e4c9f5d920d3bd3714/enemies-9.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/212dfcb0dad458cf603ce739b28a56145d1c9edda5b31389854313e64e3c8f8b/enemies-10.jpg" data-mid="43294507" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/212dfcb0dad458cf603ce739b28a56145d1c9edda5b31389854313e64e3c8f8b/enemies-10.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0c9df52b8e490745d46fc48e691434d89048116b1c07d1356b17febb40532821/Enemies-11.jpg" data-mid="43294508" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0c9df52b8e490745d46fc48e691434d89048116b1c07d1356b17febb40532821/Enemies-11.jpg" /> <img width="4498" height="3373" width_o="4498" height_o="3373" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c74000ec5ba58398599b250f3862264ff7d8dbcc3cecd4f12a8d1b3e3e491c1b/Enemies-14.jpg" data-mid="43294509" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c74000ec5ba58398599b250f3862264ff7d8dbcc3cecd4f12a8d1b3e3e491c1b/Enemies-14.jpg" /> <img width="4437" height="3328" width_o="4437" height_o="3328" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bcbfb4e08950c32e28229bfbefaa59f5505bd0cb7925ce0154d6766efa70307e/enemies-20.jpg" data-mid="43294510" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bcbfb4e08950c32e28229bfbefaa59f5505bd0cb7925ce0154d6766efa70307e/enemies-20.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a930aa2d3f14bd61ab044cd19da0a5351e0f8cb421b00e77f187a6868d073dc3/Enemies-24.jpg" data-mid="43294511" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a930aa2d3f14bd61ab044cd19da0a5351e0f8cb421b00e77f187a6868d073dc3/Enemies-24.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3fc826d9b6676647d20f82e8ba0ffc718f37c142732dd944ac2d5cbb3021b502/enemies-28.jpg" data-mid="43294512" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3fc826d9b6676647d20f82e8ba0ffc718f37c142732dd944ac2d5cbb3021b502/enemies-28.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c330c0bb50643d7696c8f7498f5c70f837020fca3743608ec0bf175c25721b1d/enemies-31.jpg" data-mid="43294513" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c330c0bb50643d7696c8f7498f5c70f837020fca3743608ec0bf175c25721b1d/enemies-31.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a5f294dd42060455ceb488f46d0d6cce7fba1513b2f3c2812548bb1821c3775a/enemies-34.jpg" data-mid="43294514" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a5f294dd42060455ceb488f46d0d6cce7fba1513b2f3c2812548bb1821c3775a/enemies-34.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/18f8c0f310c27e157d83537796745e4fd5f101facde3f3a6f81f85b9aff1ac12/enemies-59.jpg" data-mid="43284071" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/18f8c0f310c27e157d83537796745e4fd5f101facde3f3a6f81f85b9aff1ac12/enemies-59.jpg" /> https://beckynasadowski.com/The-Englert-Theatre Mon, 27 May 2019 01:26:25 +0000 becky nasadowski / white wire studio https://beckynasadowski.com/The-Englert-Theatre The Englert Theatre Previously, The Englert Theatre lacked a cohesive identity system and its materials were often disconnected to its vision, one that steadily looks toward the future and brings in elite talent to highlight their tagline: “It all happens here.” With a diversity of events that include quirky kids’ programming, rock shows, performance art, evenings at the orchestra, and more, the theatre’s strength is its versatility and adaptability, taking on programming risks while maintaining a welcoming feel for its community. I worked with the theatre to develop a new identity and various materials—plus user-friendly templates and an identity manual—to tie everything together and enable the theatre to deploy the look and feel for years to come, even with a limited marketing budget. 2013–14. <img width="2508" height="1147" width_o="2508" height_o="1147" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1a9d379c7f4ecd85b22f1c3a60e1e2c67d7f0bd7ab593bad9524f45211a10a7b/englert-logo-banner.jpg" data-mid="43137457" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1a9d379c7f4ecd85b22f1c3a60e1e2c67d7f0bd7ab593bad9524f45211a10a7b/englert-logo-banner.jpg" /> <img width="1481" height="1481" width_o="1481" height_o="1481" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5fe4253ab912393c36175f5c1bf40950e1a03d8c93d045b7255075f462755d14/englert_boxoffice.jpg" data-mid="43298182" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5fe4253ab912393c36175f5c1bf40950e1a03d8c93d045b7255075f462755d14/englert_boxoffice.jpg" /> <img width="3029" height="2000" width_o="3029" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/67555578cf82977a00d3dfa01dc2e0569e25ee20019352120f4ac72882bccf96/englert-playbill_1.jpg" data-mid="43137072" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/67555578cf82977a00d3dfa01dc2e0569e25ee20019352120f4ac72882bccf96/englert-playbill_1.jpg" /> <img width="3029" height="2000" width_o="3029" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5d8adc5f0ccc24d5a7ca450abc9375ab1391cd0371c8ad610c9414d6159276cb/englert-playbill_2.jpg" data-mid="43137050" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5d8adc5f0ccc24d5a7ca450abc9375ab1391cd0371c8ad610c9414d6159276cb/englert-playbill_2.jpg" /> <img width="3029" height="2000" width_o="3029" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1134d9ecfcf3a47b6e12f3bce3f068cccf5597882799354ff9991be60965b151/englert-playbill_4.jpg" data-mid="43137052" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1134d9ecfcf3a47b6e12f3bce3f068cccf5597882799354ff9991be60965b151/englert-playbill_4.jpg" /> <img width="3029" height="2000" width_o="3029" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/12373594167bd980ee04377757b59e9e74c333a9f54d5edc7b2ad1211507de9c/Englert-web.jpg" data-mid="43137054" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/12373594167bd980ee04377757b59e9e74c333a9f54d5edc7b2ad1211507de9c/Englert-web.jpg" /> <img width="1627" height="1577" width_o="1627" height_o="1577" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/64cd4f43857620da41a84b6e914e94d5414dd497d01d92fa802cf9dbcb018218/englert_banner-colors.png" data-mid="43298133" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/64cd4f43857620da41a84b6e914e94d5414dd497d01d92fa802cf9dbcb018218/englert_banner-colors.png" /> https://beckynasadowski.com/Deep-Routes Sun, 26 May 2019 17:06:56 +0000 becky nasadowski / white wire studio https://beckynasadowski.com/Deep-Routes Deep Routes <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a902007a09f6e60f3e7efcc97f70fb751dbc25d24b1c4be3e1c0c95506c73839/deep-routes-2.jpg" data-mid="43280227" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a902007a09f6e60f3e7efcc97f70fb751dbc25d24b1c4be3e1c0c95506c73839/deep-routes-2.jpg" /> I joined forces with Compass Collaborators to design their book entitled Deep Routes: The Midwest in All Directions. The cover art—Raven Steals the Pipeline—is by Duskin Drum. Though the tangible version (distributed by Half Letter Press and JustSeeds) is now out of print, digital versions of all essays can be read and downloaded online. From their site: Deep Routes: the Midwest in All Directions is a collection of stories about learning where we are—by inhabiting, traversing, and exchanging narratives in the expansive region that some people call the Midwest Radical Culture Corridor. Emerging from a geologic territory shaped by retreating Pleistocene ice sheets and further carved by generations of plant, animal and human habitation, these essays contemplate another planetary shift that has transformed our very existence: global neoliberal capitalism. The authors critically reflect on the nature of territory, citizenship, mobility and the possibilities for a more just and egalitarian society. Drawing from sites within the the Midwest (such as parts of Minneapolis, Detroit, Rockford, Madison, Southern Illinois) and excursions far beyond it (locales as distant as Togo, China and Argentina) the twenty-seven contributors explore the wealth of associations these many journeys have nurtured. 255 pages, 6" x 9". 2012. <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ec40ee5fbb14e199f46698dc61b48125916ccd70c7a785c4c7ebcafd25aa94d0/deep-routes-6.jpg" data-mid="43280494" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ec40ee5fbb14e199f46698dc61b48125916ccd70c7a785c4c7ebcafd25aa94d0/deep-routes-6.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ba0af0335dfe07f7fbd63cd40380368460fa941e1e019d25fc9e35a60656ad69/deep-routes-9.jpg" data-mid="43280229" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ba0af0335dfe07f7fbd63cd40380368460fa941e1e019d25fc9e35a60656ad69/deep-routes-9.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9b8d11c76eb2ac206240609cbc7f295db2b44d1427d07b2ac910862e594a3c41/deep-routes-10.jpg" data-mid="43280230" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9b8d11c76eb2ac206240609cbc7f295db2b44d1427d07b2ac910862e594a3c41/deep-routes-10.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/04a0c30e69c519937ada39541b5ad4966c76fd3fb21c72ce5da6f8dc460d38ab/deep-routes-13.jpg" data-mid="43280231" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/04a0c30e69c519937ada39541b5ad4966c76fd3fb21c72ce5da6f8dc460d38ab/deep-routes-13.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a719a21593711c39bf18fb29a975c5c33baad3843cca27f95a81b322329f3f72/deep-routes-18.jpg" data-mid="43280232" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a719a21593711c39bf18fb29a975c5c33baad3843cca27f95a81b322329f3f72/deep-routes-18.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/67651953aa07cf3075e3e9ed5198a065c0b816797f8d0c6d93f707fc38fc4f27/deep-routes-22.jpg" data-mid="43280234" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/67651953aa07cf3075e3e9ed5198a065c0b816797f8d0c6d93f707fc38fc4f27/deep-routes-22.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/84b7e395961b0cbab74511f03b7801335f1fcbe487e2dc7447e82d1bae0fbf03/deep-routes-31.jpg" data-mid="43280236" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/84b7e395961b0cbab74511f03b7801335f1fcbe487e2dc7447e82d1bae0fbf03/deep-routes-31.jpg" />