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TYPEFACE | BAYARD | TRÉ SEALS | INSPIRED BY BAYARD RUSTIN AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS POSTERS OF THE 1950S AND ’60S
How have you chosen the subjects that you’ve used so far? Because
I’m tackling the issue of diversity, I try to focus on movements that either relate to minorities of color or to everyone. During the Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike of 1968, over three-quarters of the workers were Black.
A movement that affected everyone was the Anti-Draft movement of the Vietnam War era.
Next, I look for a piece of ephemera that multiple people have a connec- tion to, from a sign distributed among hundreds or thousands of individu- als to a single banner carried by a dozen people.
What’s your process? My process is 25 percent research, 25 percent design, 25 percent research, 25 percent design, in that order. I do this be- cause in one particular instance, I did all of my research in the beginning and all of my designing afterwards. Not long before I was getting ready to release the typeface, I found an article from the past decade that prompt- ed me to cancel the release all together. So, while this process adds up
to 50 percent research plus 50 percent design, breaking it up allows the process to be more fluid, and that way, I’m continuously finding inspira- tion and information that may affect the end result.
Have you seen your fonts in use in any interesting contexts?
There are too many to have a favorite. I’m just honored to see them used.
SOURCE Adapted from an interview with Roger Peet, JustSeeds, Oct 30, 2018 >justseeds.org/civil-rights-fonts/.
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