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Though we're most familiar with drag in the context of big-haired, heavy made-up drag queens, drag is something we all participate in when we choose clothes, hairstyles, and mannerisms to communicate who we are. Designer Drag investigates how the products we fill our lives with contribute to our sense of identity and explores what "queer product design" might look like.
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Featured in Model View Culture's Top 25 of 2015, "Making Queer" is about growing up gay and what that means to me as an engineer, maker, and designer.
"Making as a gay man is a political statement that I will not be relegated to the periphery of society, seen as inconsequential, or be without the power to shape my own world and the worlds of others." |
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Inspired by the work of Swedish design researcher Karin Ehrnberger, "Hell in a Hand Drill" explores the history of the hand drill and what its design says about our stereotypes of masculinity and gender roles.
For more, check out Karin's fascinating article "Visualising Gender Norms in Design." |