Disobey(ed)
Some projects are the roots of your practice. This is one of them. In 2022, I read The Society of the Spectacle from Guy Debord, a French anarchist. From there started a reflection over my role as a graphic designer in the capitalist system. Disobey is a visual essay that explores questions related to design and dissent, but also to domination, oppression and power imbalances in modern society. It draws inspiration from the work of Shepard Fairey with ‘Obey the Giant’, which adresses similar topics.
The book is built with pictures duos that confront each other like a mirror. These mini-visual-essays are punctuated with short reflections over what the world could be without design, or rather with a different use of design. It is also a call for people to rebel.
The book is completely red: the color of interdictions, but also passion, danger and emergencies. It has the dimension of a brick, a handy tool to build walls between people, but also a weapon of rebellion to take systems down. Text is written without capitalisation.
During the production, I misprinted a third of the book. A page was missing from a riso-printed hundred-pager. A huge waste of paper that I took as a sign of disobedience from the book itself. I kept the misprints, which I shuffled and turned into a new publication: the book that disobeyed.
