Lsd n°01 – A Feminist Issue

About Chaumont and its festival, with modesty, Vanina Pinter wrote this: “The graphic religion has remained in solid, legitimate hands, the hands of power transitions.

To act outside of these transfers of power, of a cooptation of use, is to take the risk of a possible delegitimization. Acting at the edge, taking another point of observation, is therefore not without risk – in a territorial logic – but must be an absolute in a global context. When at the second edition of the International Graphic Design Biennial in 2019, we dealt with invisibilization with Silvia Baum, Claudia Scheer and Lea Sievertsen [Not a Muse], [Not a Muse]with the post-colonial question with Jonathan Castro, the transformations of capital, the repercussion on the economy of a discipline with Tereza Ruller [The Rodina], [The Rodina]the commitment with Teresa Sdralevich, we have found more allies than amateurs of a ” Male Tears Bingo“.

By opening this first periodical publication and titling it “A feminist Issue” around the figure of Anja Kaiser, the idea is to deal with graphic design from a feminist, collaborative and co-construction perspective. This perspective was joined by Anna Jehle, Juliane Schickedanz, Fabrice Bourlez and Loraine Furter. The title of this volume implies another, such as ” An Other Feminist Issue” succeeding ” Another Feminist Issue“, so many voices are present, and require attention and precision. The Signe Design [LSD], designed by officeabc, – periodical of a platform of production, dissemination, support for creation, dialogue and mediation between the artistic field of graphic design and the public that is the National Center of Graphic Design -, is less an object of communication than a field of study invested.
Jean-Michel Géridan