CoDesign LIVE: The Visual Language of Protest with tyler galloway

Join us for a virtual lightning talk exploring 

Photo by and courtesy of Steve Hebert.

Can visual branding power grassroots resistance?

Join us for CoDesign LIVE on October 27. Designer and educator tyler galloway will share his decade-plus collaborative design work with Stand Up KC, a founding chapter in the nationwide Fight for $15 movement.

Drawing from his visual essay “Things I’ve Learned About Designing for Protest” featured in Unfold: The Dissent Issue, tyler will break down how strategic visual identity, context-aware typography, exploiting physical constraints, and participatory design can turn graphic design into a true force-multiplier for grassroots movements.

tyler galloway is an associate professor and chair of the graphic design department at the Kansas City Art Institute, with primary research and practice interests focused on design for social change and participatory design processes. His design work has appeared in several national and international political/social poster and art exhibitions and has been published in the books “Graphis Poster Annual 2017”, “The Design of Dissent”, “reproduce and revolt”, and the Turkish socio-political design magazine “no tasarim”. coursework and student projects have been published in “designing for social change” and “design ignites change”, having won multiple grants through the latter. He has conducted workshops and spoken locally and regionally on design for social change and was an invited participant in the Leap Symposium at Art Center College of Design.

His design studio, the new programme, is focused on facilitating community-based social change through both client-initiated and designer-initiated work. Recent work has centered on visual identity and support materials for “Stand Up KC”, Kansas City’s conception of the international low-wage worker movement, along with work for other local non-profits.

tyler holds a BFA from Missouri State University, an MGD from North Carolina State University, and loves riding bikes, punk rock, vegan cookies, and being a dad.