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Our Crofton Type

Molly Shenstone

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I have a playful and experimental approach, using meaningful dialogue and a participatory design process that intertwines traditional analogue techniques with digital experimentation and production to produce socio-political work that provokes critical thinking, dialogue and inspires positive social change. My participatory approach has been informed through an Erasmus scholarship at the Willem De Kooning Academie in the Netherlands.

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‘Our Crofton Type’ explores how creative workshops can strengthen and amplify the collective voices of a community. Through shared experience and locale, participants of Crofton Road co-designed a typeface for their own street identity. We discussed what they care about to generate messages for typographic posters displaying their type face. In response to their reactions, I reproduced their posters as a set of 10 a2 posters and 4 banners incorporating their type and illustrations for street decoration.

Collaboration in design brings a community together through shared experiences, resulting in tangible outcomes that we can use to project our voices in communal areas.

Final work

  • Participants of workshop around table cutting letters from black and white photographs
  • Participants of workshop around table of black and white photographs
  • paper cut letters pinned onto pin grey board
  • scan of stamped letter 'I' from workshop
  • scan of stamped letter 'R' from workshop
  • scan of stamped letter 'Q' from workshop
collage of multi coloured, typographic, relief printed posters.

Our Road, Our Voice Workshop

Participants discussed what community means to them and generated a collective voice to amplify. They printed their messages as typographic posters displaying their Crofton Road type face.

  • picture of pink letterpress poster in window
  • Picture of orange typographic poster reading 'dont be sour like a lemon'
  • Picture of yellow typographic poster in window by front door

Research and process

  • Picture of pink and orange typographic poster in a window
  • Picture of yellow typographic poster in window with white flowers around.
  • Picture of orange typographic poster in window
4 multi coloured banners suspended between posts above a street entrance

Crofton Road Banners

4 banners designed for Crofton Road street art. The messages on the banners were captured from conversations that were held between children and families in the workshops.

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Our Crofton Type

‘Our Crofton Type’ explores how creative workshops can strengthen and amplify the collective voices of a community. Through shared experience and locale, participants of Crofton Road co-designed a typeface for their own street identity. We discussed what they care about to gen...

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