Bianca Aguilar
@biancamikaila
designer, educator, writer, learner
bianca.digitalBianca Aguilar
Significant Misconceptions #1 Africans were illiterate before colonization #2 Africa lacked civilization before European contact
Henri Lotin • Big Picture: The State of Web Design in Africa
“Digital universalism ” is the pervasive but mistaken framework shaping global imaginaries around the digital that presumes that a single, universal narrative propelled by “centres” of innovation can accurately represent the forms of digital development unde
rway across the globe today.
Anita Say Chan • Networking Peripheries: Technological Futures and the Myth of Digital Universalism
“My approach is to empower, not to prescribe. I’m not interested in telling you which habits you should build or what choices you should make. You know what works for your life and works for your circumstances better than I could. Instead, I want to equip and empower you with ideas and strategies so you can make your own choices and do the things... See more
Hui, who previously designed the New York Times’ Chinese logo and a custom typeface for tech giant Tencent, believes that Chinese type design has become stagnant and unoriginal. Most of the fonts on the market have gone through a process of convergent evolution to become blocky and conventional. “There’s no emotion behind them,” Hui told Rest
... See moreBrian Ng • Revolutionary type: Meet the designer decolonizing Chinese fonts
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ost Southeast Asian are still struggling to afford and get access to full product experiences due to cost of ownership limitations.
Project Lima • Inclusive design in Southeast Asia
Many major non-Chinese sites are completely inaccessible. Trying to load up a blocked site usually gets you a good ol’ Page Cannot be Displayed message, and for reasons seemingly unknown to anyone, also seems to crash your browser’s ability to load anything at all for thirty seconds or so.
Kendra Schaefer • Notes From Behind the Firewall: The State of Web Design in China
Hui said that the point of the project is not just an exercise in aesthetics, but an attempt to “decolonize” Chinese type. He intends to take it back to its roots before the influence of Japanese designers, and to free it from the cultural gravity of the mainland, where even typefaces come under the purview of the state. His research and
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