The Women’s Design Research Unit (WD RU) was founded in 1994 to raise awareness about women working in design.
Joined September 2013
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8 Mar 2025
We’ve taken action.
See our new archive! We are celebrating 30 years of friendship, activism, and collaboration. See our new WD RU archive on Instagram: @wdandruff
instagram.com/wdandru/
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12 Aug 2024
Rework the Future weareshesays.com/news/rework…
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1 Aug 2024
Pussy Galore featured in ‘Same Bold Stories?: Typeface design by women and queers in the 20th and 21st centuries’ exhibition. Klingspor Museum, Offenbach, 20 July–24 November 2024.
Poster design: Paula Heinrich.
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#typedesign #womendesign
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23 Jun 2024
Masayo Fukuda, contemporary master of kirie, or Japanese paper-cutting, crafting hyper detailed creatures from single sheets of paper, an art that has been around since 700 AD #WomensArt
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20 Apr 2024
Looking forward to seeing our poster in the travelling juried exhibition, ‘I Profess: the graphic design manifesto’, uca.ac.uk/events/galleries/-…
@UniCreativeArts Farnham 15–30 April
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9 Apr 2024
📢 New exhibition: Chelsea Garden Prints by painter-printmaker Denise Ballard-Wyllie
A series of lithographs, screen prints and wood engravings inspired by a residency @ChelsPhysicGdn.
Please contact us before visiting to ensure access to the exhibition space.
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29 Mar 2024
Join us on 11 April (online/in-person) to hear @jessicahische deliver the annual Justin Howes Memorial Lecture. She’ll be talking about her incredible career as a lettering artist, designer, illustrator and author – you won’t want to miss this!
🎟️tinyurl.com/JessicaHischeTal…
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2 Mar 2024
"When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else"
RIP #IrisApfel
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25 Feb 2024
A good companion show to Women In Revolt @Tate … The Time of Our Lives at The Drawing Room, Bermondsey. drawingroom.org.uk/exhibitio…
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2 Feb 2024
A cover by Maira Kalman, from this day in 1999. #NewYorkerCovers
ALT The February 1, 1999, cover of The New Yorker, by Maira Kalman.
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3 Feb 2024
'Chandelier of Lost Earrings' by artists Lauren Sagar and Sharon Campbell, sculpture made from over 3,000 donated single earrings #womensart
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12 Nov 2023
Linen jacket by Agnes Richter, a seamstress who was placed into an Austrian asylum during the late 1800′s and who embroidered her life story onto the jacket she made as an attempt to regain her identity #womensart
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4 Nov 2023
🍻Design for “Peipingmachine × Quadraft Brewing”, Strawberry Red Bean Paste Sour IPA by @chaikunpeng ✨
#youcreativemedia #visualidentity #visualidentitydesign #posterart #typeposter #graphicdesign #graphicdesigner
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25 Oct 2023
Want to come & work with our London, activist, feminist & rather sizeable LGBTQ #archives? We’re looking for an Archivist to join the fun! More here: bishopsgate.org.uk/work-with…
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22 Oct 2023
Anita Klinz | 7. There have been lots of great book designers, but few have been as imaginative, rigorous and prolific as Anita Klinz in the 1950s and 1960s. One of her greatest strengths was her versatility, as illustrated by these two books from 1968.
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20 Oct 2023
WD RU outing to this talk @NPGLondon (after a day of being Women at Work). Fascinating stories behind iconic images.
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3 Oct 2023
This kickstarter campaign by @LisaLisahuang looks fascinating. Words of Type is an encyclopedia of typographic terms, illustrated and explained in multiple languages. The first version will contain 200 terms translated into 6 languages.
Find out more here kickstarter.com/projects/hel…
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3 Oct 2023
The UKRI-funded Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Caucus (EDICa) has launched a UK survey of everyone working in the research & innovation (R&I) ecosystem.
Survey open until 31 Oct: surveylab.com/pageTag/Survey…
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