![]() Harnessing familiar images like these allows our followers to analogize. ![]() ![]() For these, we explain concepts in sexuality and gender using wildly unrelated visuals-The Periodic Table of Elements the roots, stem, and buds of a weed even a cheeseburger. Last spring, I designed a series of infographic-like Instagram posts for Equimundo’s brand-new Many Ways of Being curriculum, an evolution of Manhood 2.0 and Sisterhood 2.0. For my work especially, that means the occasional lean-in to the playful, outrageous, and make-believe-creating brands, products, campaigns, and other things of all varieties that are just a little bit wild. Halloween aside, I try, as best I can, to summon some of this energy all year long. Me this year? I was Max- just a boy pretending to be a wolf pretending to be a king from Where the Wild Things Are. An indulgence of childlike wonder and imagination, so much of it appeals to the designer-in-me: gritty fabrication, boundless vision, and the audacity to ask “what if?” A constructed dream state required yearly to process the weight of the waking hours, at its core is a ceremony in its truest sense-ancient, necessary, collective, and even solemn.Īnother Halloween, here and gone. ![]() Halloween is one of my favorite celebrations. Hat very night in Max’s room a forest grew and grew-and grew until his ceiling hung with vines and the walls became the world all around.” -Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are ![]()
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