Learning from him and about his practice had a huge influence on me. At the time I was in my final year at uni, about to graduate into a recession, and seriously questioning my choice to become a designer and design’s complicity in consumerism. Jason was one of my tutors at the Queensland College of Art. For the last 30 years or so they’ve worked in direct collaboration with social movements, transforming from a community-run screenprinting workshop into a non-hierarchical design studio focused on creative political expression. Jason is runs the Brisbane-based studio Inkahoots. A new way of being and knowing, for a new way of relating with the world. Post-Branding empowers better design of public communication for civic and activist groups by replacing corporate branding’s predatory principles with a new set of strategies embedded in a new culture of craft. Very excited to read What is post-branding? How to Counter Fundamentalist Marketplace Semiotics, a book by Jason Grant & Oliver Vodeb published by Set Margins (which seems to be publishing all the good design books these days).
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