January 8th, 2007
Rain and Thunder’s new website
Rain and Thunder: Radical Feminst Journal of Discussion and Activism has a new website:
www.rainandthunder.org
Please update your links and check it out!
Filed under: activism/organizing, design, kya by Amy's Brain Today
October 19th, 2006
Illustration, at which I sucketh
Okay, so maybe that’s an exaggeration. I’m getting somewhat better with practice. But if you can tell what this drawing is of, you get a gold star.
Filed under: design by Amy's Brain Today
July 20th, 2006
HOW Magazine Hall of Shame
You’d think I’d have learned by now not to trust the media-related recommendations of men. The last time I listened to one, a “nice” one, I ended up watching the horrendous film Breaking the Waves about the violent degradation and death of a naive young woman in the service of healing her husband’s paraplegia. […]
Filed under: design, media/culture criticism by Amy's Brain Today
June 4th, 2006
Another Look at Consumerism
Consumerism is something that’s been popping up on my radar a lot in the last week or so. The contradiction between my politics and the environment in which I’m learning about design is almost amusing. I go to class and listen to lectures on the importance of “corporate identity”; I go on […]
Filed under: consumerism, design, feminism as politics, media/culture criticism by Amy's Brain Today
April 10th, 2006
I’m sick of heterosexism too
So you already know I’m sick of sexual assault. I created those antirape designs and it was good, satisfying work, but even as I was doing it I was aware that underneath all the messages I could think of, there’s still the assumption that men care. That they care that they’re hurting us, […]
Filed under: design, feminism as politics, lesbian feminism, separatism by Amy's Brain Today
March 23rd, 2006
Dickheads Can Stop Raping
BB has a plan, maybe. So I did a few designs to contribute to any possible campaign to raise awareness and/or funds, in any way. You can see them here.
You’re welcome to reproduce any of these designs for personal and nonprofit use, as long as you attribute them to Amy at […]
Filed under: activism/organizing, design, feminism as politics, graphics by Amy's Brain Today
March 19th, 2006
More Fiber Art Design
This was my first official class on color. We got to cut up paint chips! Shhhh, don’t tell the major DIY home improvement chain. This first piece was inspired by the lovely rounded edges of the little paint cards. I’m thinking Maine lupine under a blue sky.
In the second piece I went […]
Filed under: design by Amy's Brain Today
March 15th, 2006
More Design Motherworks
Oh, I had such fun in fiber art design last week! Isn’t this nice? We were working with positive and negative space, just like in my 2D Design class.
This next one is my personal favorite. I really like the subtle contrast between the cut and torn edges. It looks kinda like […]
