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DUp 🎁 Issue 161 > ByeBye Binary, Call for Students, Murakami illustrated, Stochastic Parrot, WrapUp & More

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December 19, 2023

The countdown to 2024 has begun - and we have an extended lineUp of interestingness for you, for our second last edition of 2023.

But before that we have an announcement - DesignUp is all set to sponsor and support three final-year Design and Non-Design students, or recent grads seeking internships. The projects could even shape the foundation of the final-year thesis project. These 3-6 month projects will meet well-defined deadlines, offering a unique chance to showcase creativity and skills, experiment, implement and shine. Click right here for the open call for Curious Creators & Maverick Makers! And remember to good by spreading the word around!

And there’s more - eye candy (of course), Bye Bye Binary, Murakami, Language Justice and some deeply personal perspectives on #StepUpTo24

🎉 Wrap up #StepUpTo24

👉 #StepUpTo24 #WrapUpTo24

After wrapping up #StepUpTo24 in style, in this edition, we're taking a moment to catch up on the highlights, and talk about what we have in store for the coming year…👉👉

The DesignUp Crew lineUp…

ICYMI, we announced 4 new board members Esha Mookerjee Dutta, Hemant Suthar, Shirish Andhare, and Shiva Viswanathan, a revamped website, dates for the 2024 conference, and an all-new Priority Pass for 2024... 

So go mark your calendars well in advance, and grab those Priority passes for super benefits and savings.. everything you need to know is right here: designup.io 👉

💬 Fireside chat with Vijay Sekhar Sharma

We also loved the candid south-side chat between host Suresh Venkat and PayTM founder Vijay Sekhar Sharma! They discussed a wide range of conversation topics, from money, startups, careers, ambitions, and the CEO's view on design. Vijay showered us with hard truths but held on to his typical humble, humorous way - along with highlighting the brutal fact that AI is in fact coming for a lot of our jobs, whether we like it or not.

Here are some more recaps from our speakers, volunteers, and attendees.

Rakesh N Subramanian celebrated his Birthday at #StepUpTo24 - and here’s what he had to share…

Birthdays are meant for inspiration, and mine was exceptionally filled with it at the DesignUp Conference, surrounded by my incredible team! The standout…

Preethi Chethan on Titles of The Future

Huge thank you to Jay Dutta for inviting me to be a part of DesignUp's #StepUpTo24 event this year — it was such a unique format with 24 industry experts all…

Speaker, Musician Raghu Dixit on #StepUpTo24

Last week I was invited by the maverick Design Guru and my neighbour-friend-advisor Jay Dutta to speak at the DesignUp Conference 2023 as a part of a panel…👉

Attendee Sindhu Shivaprasad’s Slideshow on Her Favorite Prompt From #StepUpTo24

“Which trends are out and which ones are emerging?”: a prompt at the DesignUp Conference #StepUpTo24 that I loved. It’s a great way to see the bigger…👉

DesignUp Volunteer Mohana Das on #StepUpTo24

DesignUp Conference has always been my yearly source of inspiration. It reminds me that there’s more to Design than the daily monotony of our work lives. The speakers, the talks, the diversity of thought, the ingenuity of ideas, go beyond tools or tips & tricks - it's about the bigger picture: macro-trends, ethics, inclusivity, community, action. 👉

🌏️ Around the Web

Last year at DesignUp22, we saw how Girish Dalvi & Ektype are addressing diversity and equality in Indian typography - here are some more stories, coming from global type history and the intersections of feminism and design.

Type History: Language Justice, and Beyond the Latin Letter in Design Education

Sabiha Basrai recommends globally expansive approaches to studying typography.

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Those of us who are educators and mentor young designers have an opportunity to expand the way we teach the elements and principles of design. Providing non-Western reference points for concepts of color theory, pattern, contrast, and typography allows our creativity imaginations to grow. 

Sabiha Basrai

Moving Towards Non-binary Language with Bye Bye Binary Collective

Language is not innocent or neutral, it mirrors society, culture, and intersecting systems of inequalities like class, race, patriarchy, and more. Bye Bye Binary Collective embraces typographic activism by deconstructing established societal norms through their work.

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Typography and design are not neutral. Privilege and oppression are distributed and manifest themselves through designed artifacts such as clothes, furniture pieces, digital interactions, or typography.

Don’t miss these two stories circulating in the community - if you work in UX, you’ll recognize Late-Stage UX already, and this delightful story by cartoonist Angie Wang informs and reflects.

ICYMI: The State of UX in 2024

From design tools, to our design process, to the user behaviors that will change the way we design — a list of what to expect for User Experience (UX) Design in the next year.

ICYMI: Is My Toddler a Stochastic Parrot?

The world is racing to develop ever more sophisticated large language models while a small language model unfurls itself in my home.

💖 Eye Candy

How Daniel Liévano Brought Murakami’s Words to Life

How illustrator Daniel Liévano brought Haruki Murakami’s words to life in The Folio Society’s illustrated editions

This eerie film from WWF highlights the dangers of fossil fuels (which account for over 75% of global man-made greenhouse gas emissions, and nearly 90% of all carbon dioxide emissions), using innovative stop-motion animation from Yannis Konstantinidis and Studio Nomint.

Nigerian artist Olalekan Jeyifous imagines future worlds where “humanity thrives within the strictures of its self-inflicted handicaps” and believes that speculations can guide our behaviors toward positive change.

Reconstructions and Blackness in America

This project explores how this reality plays out in a network of communities within Brooklyn, NY called “The Frozen Neighborhoods” (TFN) and posits sustainable and advanced ecological technologies including rainwater harvesting, biofuel energy, freshwater marshes, and idyllic gardens.

gif by Daniel Barreto

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