Snapshots: Expanded Features from The Dissent Issue
What The Streets Taught Me About Design
For over a decade, Tyler Galloway served as principal designer for Stand Up KC — one of the founding members of the nationwide Fight for $15 movement. What he learned is that the same principles of identity design that serve capital can just as effectively fight it.
Experience a decade of lessons, live from the streets with Tyler Galloway.
The District Vanguard: Defying Defeat Through Design
The District Vanguard is a digital anthology canonizing Black artists and designers in Washington, DC, and a direct act of resistance against the unregulated arts economy that decides who gets seen.
Resilience by Design
Resilience isn’t strength; it’s stamina. Build your capacity for the long game with Tracy Swyst.
The Urgency of Art
When political pressure mounts, artists reach instinctively for the same tools. Read about what that tells us about our moment with Nick Cheney of Blackfish Gallery.
The Palette of Dissent: The Right to One’s Own Reality
Dissent is not a threat to alignment; it’s the heartbeat of it. Tyfahra Milele, Ph.D., on competing realities, epistemic sovereignty, and designing systems where every paradigm can breathe without erasing the others.
Designing for Dissent: A Conversation with Sabiha Basrai and Guest Editor Rania Adwan
Design has always been political. The question is who gets to say so, and at what cost. Guest Editor Rania Adwan sits down with Sabiha Basrai—designer, organizer, and co-owner of Design Action Collective—to talk about twenty years at the intersection of graphic design and social justice: what the industry did and didn’t do when the world got harder, who has always had to resist and who is only now arriving at it, and what solidarity actually looks like inside design practice.
