MOTHER DESIGNER
MOTHER DESIGNER
No one way or set of circumstances determines someone's identity as a mother or a designer. Identity is an individual and personal part of the human experience. Nevertheless, many people hold the double roles of designer and mother. I believe experiences of caring and mothering can enrich design practices. I am however, curious about how the mother gaze take up space in design?
MOTHER DESIGNER IDENTITY
My identity as a mother designer has become so important as I have been researching and working through COVID-19. In the U.K., women are underrepresented in design and academia. Consequently, design researching with a 'mother gaze' feels both important and invisible. However, I question myself and my work less and less the more I learn about the barriers mother designers face in the U.K. My work on gender and identity in design - including making these stickers are partly inspired by the beautiful mother artist scarves by Hettie Judah and very purposefully claims the term MOTHER within a DESIGN space. I have used the typeface NOTABLE Designed by Eli Block, Hana Tanimura and Noemie Le Coz. The NOTABLE typeface was designed for the NOTABLE WOMEN augmented reality experiment that lets anyone see 100 historic American women where they've historically been left out of U.S. currency. The stickers use the colours from my favourite kids book GOODNIGHT MOON, written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd. GOODNIGHT MOON was banned from New York Public Library for 25 years. There is a good 99% invisible podcast about that! Hope you like them … ✌️ ❤️
