Typography – Dirty Word

2021-2023

Custom typeface designed in 2021. Poster layout and copy were revised over 2022 and 2023 in response to local and national elections, with awareness of uplifting the underrepresented indigenous perspective.

Custom typeface

• Adobe Illustrator

• Adobe InDesign

• Risograph Print

Process…

A call to action

After hearing a lot of, to be frank, bullshit, both in local news and my personal life, I took it upon myself to speak up about the importance of perspective in indigenous communities and standing on colonised land.

While I was working on some experiments and exercises in my typography class, and inspired by Aotearoa’s own Johnson Witehira’s Whakarare, I developed this typeface for the explicit use of the macron.

This poster was informed with guidance from my lecturer, Catherine Griffiths, who encouraged me to let the typography stand on its own merit. Requiring no graphics or