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Happy birthday to us!
On Tuesday July 9th, The Public celebrated five years of activist design. Yesterday, Coco and Salma…
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New People’s History Poster: Celebrating Trans Inclusion
We’re continuing work on our people’s history series with our newest postcard celebrating trans inclusion. Screenprinted posters…
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The Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention brochures
We worked with the Alliance for South Asian AIDS prevention to develop these handy, pocket-sized agency brochures that…
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Teen Health Source promo materials
We’ve been continuing our relationship with Planned Parenthood Toronto’s Teen Health Source program, developing and updating…
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Boys Will Be Boys: Sex, Etc. talks masculinity, homophobia, & patriarchy
We’ve been a bit behind on the behind-the-scenes blogging, but we’re still just as excited today as the day we first received…
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Idle No More postcards and posters are off to the printers
Our Idle No More postcards and posters, are currently being printed (and screenprinted, respectively). Special thanks to Erin…
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Allied Media Conference: media strategies for a more just, creative, and collaborative world
Nat had the opportunity to attend this years Allied Media Conference in Detroit! She attended workshops on zine making, data for…
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Happy Birthday, Natalia!
Happy Birthday, Natalia! With love from all of us here at The Public, and, of course, the man at Little India.
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Equal Pay Now!
It’s time for a fair Ontario! We teamed up with our new friends at the Equal Pay Coalition to produce this infographic for equal pay day, which took place this year on April 9th.
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Happy 50th, Canadian Dimension!
In honour of 50 years of critical and progressive publishing, we were thrilled to team up with our friends at Canadian Dimension to produce this timeline poster series drawing from the themes and artwork from past issues.
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Open access to research
Open Access allows free online access to publicly funded scholarly research and allows researchers to make their own work…
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Lifetime of opportunity? Lifetime of debt.
We teamed up with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives — Ontario Office, to develop this flyer with detachable bookmark that highlights disturbing trends in the cost of post-secondary education across the province.
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The new issue of Sex, Etc. is on the press!
This issue, Boys will be boys, explores and challenges and myths and stereotypes about what it means to be a guy, and includes features that unpack masculinity, homophobia and double standards.
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Happy birthday Coco!
Yesterday marked the anniversary of birth of our studio manager extraordinaire Coco Riot. We sneaked out to surprise this being with a colourful cake.
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Think Big. Start Small.
We launched a campaign today! Think Big/Start Small is a civic engagement campaign we spearheaded for or YWCA Canada for young women 16-29, addressing issues around sexual and reproductive health, violence against women, economic equality, Indigenous solidarity, race and racism and environmental justice.
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Tomorrow Should Be Ours: Oasis Skateboard Factory’s pop-up & show
This past Friday, Sheila joined the crew at Oasis Skateboard Factory for the opening of their pop-up…
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In The Dark
The new issue of Sex, Etc. is in! This issue, In The Dark, explores what happens when teens are kept in the dark about sex and…
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Women’s Health Leadership
From 2010 to 2012, the Ontario Women’s Health Network and Echo: Improving Women’s Health in Ontario brought women together from…
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Fresh off the press! The Public featured in Canadian Dimension
The Public studio was featured in the latest issue of Canadian Dimension magazine, one of Canada’s longest-standing left-of-centre political magazines.
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The Student Movement is My Movement: Canadian Federation of Students posters
Fresh off the press! We designed some posters for the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) - Ontario in french and english….