Hey Queers! 🌈

Queer Design Club wants to hear from YOU! How are you Queer(ing) Design right now or next?

Let us know what you're working on here: forms.gle/DnoqFKSaE1wd...

Submissions are open until October 31st! ✨

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With over a decade of experience, Qais creates bold, colourful, and joyous work that blends storytelling with a distinctive visual style. Their practice moves between commercial projects and personal explorations, often drawing on queer identity and lived experience as inspiration.

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Last week in our newsletter, we introduced you to Qais Sarhan (he/him): an award-winning queer art director, animator, and illustrator based in the UK.

See Qais' work here: www.qaissarhan.com

Thaís has over 12 years of experience across diverse industries, she has developed visual identities, opening titles, and brand systems, with a growing focus on media, cultural, and nonprofit projects. Scroll to see some of her work. Check out more of her work here: thaisesmeraldo.cargo.site

In 2021, she designed the visual identity for the Archive, a volunteer-led org dedicated to preserving & sharing lesbian histories. Earlier this year, the project was recognized as a highlight at the 14th Brazilian Design Biennial, the largest in the event’s history!

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Meet Thaís Esmeraldo (she/her)– a Brazilian multidisciplinary graphic designer and art director based in New York. She is also the communications coordinator for the Brazilian Lesbian Archive, where she merges design and activism to preserve queer history.

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This week, we are featuring Passive Perception: an award-winning comedy-mystery graphic novel written by Cally Leung and Vivian Cheng, illustrated by QDC member Cally Leung!

Their creative process starts with mixed media paper collages and inky textures. PO then makes their own recycled paper from the scraps and creates blind contours, adding sustainability to their work. Their life's purpose is to brighten someone’s day and make the world slightly more magical.

Inspired by childlike sense of wonder, PO produces art that encourages individuals to see the world through a different lens and laugh along the way. Their pieces are often constructed out of paper-cut shapes that explore themes of absurdity, nature, love, queerness, and mental health.

In a time where hands-on media is more important than ever, we have been looking out for designers who incorporate tactile processes into their work.

Meet Patrick Owoc (they/them): a freelance illustrator, muralist, and designer whose artwork is created with humor and curiosity.

Hi, Queers! ✨

In our last newsletter, we introduced you to Terresa Hardaway, PhD: a proud Black queer woman dedicated to the liberation of Black and brown communities through art & design. She is the owner & creative director of Blackbird Revolt– an abolitionist design studio based in Minneapolis.

Looking to get some new eyes on your portfolio? Working on a project, website, or concept and need some feedback?

Join QDC on Tuesday, March 25th @ 6pm EST for our monthly Portfolio Review Hangout! We have a few more spots available. DM if interested! 😇

Come join us for our first Portfolio Review Night of the year! Only 10 spots available with a $10 suggested donation. 🩷 www.eventbrite.com/e/qdc-portfo...