UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR): 75th anniversary

Presented on the occasion of the partnership between HMCT and Google Fonts who have once again co-sponsored the Typography Brief for the 2022 New Blood Design Awards, an international competition reaching hundreds of countries and thousands of young designers. The theme of our brief this year, Type as the universal voice of peace, dignity, and equality, highlights the anniversary of the UDHR. Entrants are asked to give voice to social issues through typography—in any language.

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Join us for a virtual one-hour Zoom panel discussion. Moderated by Professor Gloria Kondrup, HMCT Executive Director, the panelists include:

Christian Delsol
Former Public Information Media Specialist, United Nations Population Fund, on the founding and current relevance of the UDHR

Christian Delsol served as the Public Information Media Specialist at UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, from 1992 to 2019. During his tenure, he was executive producer for a series of advocacy campaigns on Child Marriage, Family Planning, Female Genital Mutilation, Gender-based Violence, Population Issues, Reproductive Health and Rights, Women and Girls in Humanitarian Crisis. In 2016, he produced UNFPA’s first virtual reality film in Zaatari, a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, and he has produced numerous internationally traveling exhibits and at UN Conferences. He served as the deputy representative in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2003, where he transformed the office typology from an emergency operation to a regular program. In 2002, Christian spearheaded the UNFPA rebranding campaign resulting in a new logo and first-ever Style Guide, still in use. He has also collaborated with award-winning photo/video journalists to produce and place features for The New York TimesTime Magazine, BBC, EuronewsThe Guardian, and National Geographic, among others.

Christian holds a Master’s degree in Economic Anthropology from the CUNY Graduate Center. He now lectures on visual advocacy and branding for such entities as the Allan Guttmacher Institute, Design Matters at ArtCenter, and the New School, New York.

Marek Jeziorek
Technical Program Manager for Google on their Noto font project

Marek Z. Jeziorek grew up in Poland, where he studied mathematics and informatics at the University of Warsaw. In 1976, he relocated to the United States, where he obtained an MSc in Computer Science in 1980 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He worked as a compiler engineer at Intel, worked on Apple and Sun Microsystems development tools, developed web browsers at Netscape, and joined Google in 2003. Marek joined Google’s font team in July 2015 as a Technical Program Manager, where he has been instrumental in the design of Noto font. Noto now offers fonts for over 150 scripts and over 1,000 languages, opening the door to reading and writing for minority language speakers. Noto fonts are produced and validated via an open-source toolchain; it has been described as the most ambitious font project in history. It aims to support 100% of all Unicode characters with fully functional fonts.

Jennifer May
Executive Director, DesignMatters, ArtCenter, where art & design education meets social change

Jennifer May finds innovation at the intersections of design, art, education and social change. Jennifer is currently the Executive Director for Designmatters, the social innovation department at ArtCenter College of Design, where she oversees a dynamic portfolio of external partnerships, curricular and extracurricular projects and an active slate of special initiatives and publications exploring how design and art can effect change in the areas of sustainable development, social entrepreneurship, health, public policy and social justice. Jennifer is the Editor of Design for Social Innovation: Case Studies from Around the World (Routledge 2021), was Managing Editor of LEAP Dialogues: Career Pathways in Design for Social Innovation (DAP, 2016), an award-winning publication on new practices in social innovation, and editor of the open-source LEAP Dialogues: The Educator’s Guide for which she received the 2018 Design Incubation Service Award. She was named an Impact Maker to Watch in Los Angeles in 2020 and was part of the inaugural LEAD LA cohort for Coro Southern California. Jennifer earned her M.B.A. from USC Marshall School of Business, where she was a Society and Business Lab Graduate Fellow and Forte Fellow.

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