Amber Newman is a graphic designer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Previously she has worked for Mother New York, Pentagram, and the Walker Art Center. She received her MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where her thesis work centered around ideas of black media, virality, and graphic resistance.
Troll Palayan: Clara Balaguer on Design, Decolonization, and Trolling Duterte
Clara Balaguer of Hardworking Goodlooking and the Office of Culture and Design discusses the potential for brand “wokeness,” the role of design in equity movements, and her timely research project—a close look at political trolls in the Philippines at a time when the alt-right is ascending internationally. She also issues a challenge for designers critical of Black Lives Matter’s use of a certain typeface: “Use Comic Sans, Curlz, Brush Script, Papyrus. Understand why people respond to it.”