Stylogeny combining Chilean Estallido Social Graphics × Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics

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Chilean Estallido Social Graphics × Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics

The green scarf marched in the same Chilean streets in 2019, but the feminist tide rests on one wearable object and a colour code, while the estallido's walls are an unruly crowd of dogs, eyes, flags and caricatures; choose one disciplined emblem or a many-handed palimpsest.

From the research on Chilean Estallido Social Graphics (Revuelta Popular of 2019–20)

Mix them and make something Chilean Estallido Social Graphics Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics

RRISEChilean Estallido × Latin American2019 · 2015
A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Chilean Estallido Social Graphics, their arrangement from Chilean Estallido Social Graphics, the finish from Chilean Estallido Social Graphics. Not a real work, and not an image of either style.

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What each style brings

Each part of the design comes from the style with the stronger say in it, and each style gives at least two.

Chilean Estallido Social Graphics (Revuelta Popular of 2019–20) Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics (Ni Una Menos and the Green Wave)

Type from Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics
Colour from Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics
Form from Chilean Estallido Social Graphics
Composition from Chilean Estallido Social Graphics
Surface from Chilean Estallido Social Graphics

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The type

Open fonts standing in for each style’s own type, which is often hand-drawn or commercial.

Display · Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics

Rise

Permanent Marker, standing in for The Campaign's white print on the green scarf: its name in condensed bold sans-serif above a white kerchief emblem, with the slogan in bold, mostly lowercase sans-serif set round the emblem in a circle; home-made scarves cut from green cloth carry slogans in permanent marker

Text · Chilean Estallido Social Graphics

The street graphics of Chile's popular revolt, from 18 October 2019 to the March 2020 lockdowns, when a leaderless movement covered Santiago's Plaza de la Dignidad, the Alameda and other cities' walls. Photocopied paste-ups, stencils, linocuts, brushed murals, painted cloth banners and sprayed slogans pile into palimpsests, pasted again as soon as they are painted out. A small shared stock of signs recurs, above all the black riot dog Negro Matapacos in his red kerchief and the wounded eye, beside black-humoured attacks on power and many-coloured shrines to the dead and wounded.

Comic Neue; Chilean Estallido Social Graphics used Brushed and spray-painted capitals of the rayados on walls, shutters and hoardings ('ESTADO VIOLADOR / Vamos a cobrar' in heavy black brush letters on red), with the street's spellings such as 'KLLE' for calle and 'kiltro' for quiltro and Marker hand-lettering on cardboard placards and bedsheet banners, in capitals or plain handwriting, sometimes each letter in a different colour ('CHILE DESPERTÓ')

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The colours

The ground and leading colours come from Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics, with a counter-accent from Chilean Estallido Social Graphics. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Chilean Estallido Social Graphics (Revuelta Popular of 2019–20) Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics (Ni Una Menos and the Green Wave)

  • #ffffff ground · 36%
  • #141414 ink · 14%
  • #00964b accent · 18%
  • #d0202e accent · 14%
  • #e46fae accent · 10%
  • #1f4fa0 accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #ffffff;
  --ink: #141414;
  --accent-1: #00964b;
  --accent-2: #d0202e;
  --accent-3: #e46fae;
  --accent-4: #1f4fa0;
  --font-display: "Permanent Marker", cursive;
  --font-text: "Comic Neue", cursive;
}

Use it with care

Chilean Estallido Social Graphics (Revuelta Popular of 2019–20): This is the work of a living movement made under real repression: by the end of January 2020 the INDH had counted 427 people with eye injuries at the hands of the police, and some 460 eye injuries by mid-March, and protesters such as Gustavo Gatica were blinded, so do not use bleeding or patched eyes, victims' portraits or the red-kerchiefed dog as edgy styling, merchandise or a brand backdrop. Its imagined executions of named, living politicians (hanged effigies and photomontages), its posters calling for police to be set on fire ('LOS PACOS SON INFLAMABLES', 'FUEGO A LA YUTA') and slogans such as 'matapacos' ('cop-killer') and 'ACAB' are documents of rage, not tropes to reuse; the Wenufoye belongs to the Mapuche people and stands for their own political cause, so do not use it as decoration. Most makers were anonymous and the revolt is still contested in Chile, where in 2022 a UDI deputy said he would summon the culture minister over an exhibition of its art; do not attribute unsigned works to named people, and never present a generated image as a work of the revolt.

Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics (Ni Una Menos and the Green Wave): This is the living language of a movement against femicide and for abortion rights whose subjects are real women, many murdered or disappeared, and whose families raised the antimonumentas and wrote the names on them: do not reuse victims' names, photographs, pink crosses or the antimonumentas as decoration, merchandise or a backdrop for a brand. The green scarf is the emblem of the Campaña Nacional por el Derecho al Aborto Legal, Seguro y Gratuito and Ni Una Menos is a collective; do not put their emblem, slogan or name on your own products, fundraising or advertising, or dress a company's message in green and violet to borrow the movements' credibility. The scarf is still contested: it has been banned in some schools, wearing it can bring backlash, it is answered by the anti-abortion pañuelo celeste, and Argentina's legal-abortion law of 2020 has faced calls for repeal, so do not use green as a neutral 'hope' colour where it will be read as a political position. Never present a generated image as documentation of a real protest.

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The two styles

A distressed protest poster centres a woman looking upward with a raised fist, surrounded by masked demonstrators, red and blue flags, apartment buildings, red flowers and a flying bird. Large rough lettering across the top reads “OTRO MAÑANA” amid torn-looking patches of red, purple, blue, black and cream. 2019–2022 · Latin America & Caribbean Chilean Estallido Social Graphics (Revuelta Popular of 2019–20) The street graphics of Chile's popular revolt, from 18 October 2019 to the March 2020 lockdowns, when a leaderless movement covered Santiago's Plaza de la Dignidad, the Alameda and other cities' walls. Photocopied paste-ups, stencils, linocuts, brushed murals, painted cloth banners and sprayed slogans pile into palimpsests, pasted again as soon as they are painted out. A small shared stock of signs recurs, above all the black riot dog Negro Matapacos in his red kerchief and the wounded eye, beside black-humoured attacks on power and many-coloured shrines to the dead and wounded. Three stylized women look upward against a purple background, wearing green neckerchiefs with white flower emblems. Large rough-edged pink lettering reading “LIBRES” fills the top, surrounded by pink radiating strokes. 2015–present · Latin America & Caribbean Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics (Ni Una Menos and the Green Wave) The graphics of Latin America's feminist tide, a mass movement since Ni Una Menos (Buenos Aires, 3 June 2015) and the 2018 'marea verde' for legal abortion, though its scarf dates from 2003. Its identity is an object and a colour: a green triangle of cloth printed in white with the Campaign's emblem and slogan, tied to necks, wrists and bags until a crowd turns green. Around it: slogans hand-lettered on cardboard and walls, violet for feminism, linocut posters, and in Mexico purple antimonumentas, Venus signs with a raised fist lettered with demands and the names of murdered women.

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