✋✋✋✋✋✋✋✋✋Hands up for our very first project in 1994 with Liz McQuiston✋✋✋✋✋✋✋✋✋
Mining the WD+RU Archive for the Beatrice Warde Memorial Lecture, 28 October 2025 @stbridefoundation (link in bio)...
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// - We are delighted to announce that Siân Cook and Teal Triggs co-directors of Women’s Design + Research Unit will be delivering this year’s Beatrice Warde Memorial Lecture on 28 October.
“They refuse to keep quiet”
Thirty Years of the Women’s Design + Research Unit (WD+RU)
The Beatrice Warde Memorial Lecture
With Teal Triggs and Siân Cook
Tuesday 28 October 2025
St Bride Foundation and Online via Zoom
7–8.30pm
Ticket link in bio!
Within the contemporary context of social, political, and economic uncertainty the importance of having a voice for change is increasingly urgent and necessary. Thirty years ago, the Women’s Design + Research Unit (WD+RU) was formed in response to the male-dominated design and typographic industry. The voices of women working in the field were noticeably absent from the profession and in the emerging canons of graphic design history.
As educational activists, WD+RU sought to raise awareness of women working in visual communication through activist means such as posters, research projects, actions and events. WD+RU has never operated as a design studio; rather as a collective based on feminist principles (including care and collaboration, in tandem with undertaking projects that advocate for design and social responsibility). In their talk, Siân Cook and Teal Triggs, reflect critically upon their extensive archive of work from the 1990s to the present day, and ask the question: what comes next?
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If you have any access requirements, please contact [email protected] ahead of the event.
@tealtriggs@wdandru@eyemagazine_
