Author Kevin Yuen Kit Lo in conversation with Sarah Teixeira St-Cyr

“Design Against Design: Cause and consequence of a dissident graphic practice” for sale at Het Fort van Sjakoo.

Design Against Design argues for the urgent necessity of critical engagement and political resistance through graphic practice. It draws on insights from the practice of LOKI, a small graphic design studio committed to working with social movements towards radical political change. With con­versational interviews, personal and critical essays, and a wide-ranging selection of graphic works, this book unravels the real-world relationships, motivations and contradictions involved in a socially engaged design practice.

Location: Fort van Sjakoo, Jodenbreestraat 24,1011 NK Amsterdam

Sarah Teixeira St-Cyr is a community organizer and cultural programmer, and was the assistant curator of the Palestinian Film Festival in Amsterdam in October 2024.

Kevin Yuen Kit Lo is Assistant Professor of Communication Design and Visual Culture in the Department of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University. He works at the intersections of graphic design, cultural production, and social change with a research focus on publication practices and social movements. Kevin founded the graphic design studio LOKI in 2014, working alongside community organizations, non-profits, cultural and educational institutions, unions, artists, researchers and activist groups, as part of broader movements for social change. The studio has worked on campaigns to stop racial profiling, designed protest graphics for anti-racist and anti-colonial social justice movements, created online platforms for critical journalism and supported the cultural production of marginalized writers and artists through the design of publications, exhibitions, and collaborative works. Kevin has been a long-term community and anarchist organizer in Montréal/Tiohtià:ke, and has been active in local Palestinian solidarity work since the early 2000s. He is a member of the Memefest network and the Justseeds artist co-operative.