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Justin Carder

California
Interdisciplinary
Design Fellowship, 2021 - 2022
↗ justincarder.website

Collect
Power
Time
person in a colorful shirt and cap seated at a table with various print materials

 

Artist Statement

I am a somewhat self-taught—shout out to my design mentors Mariá Inés Montes, Alvaro Villanueva, and the 1998-99-cohort-of-Kinko’s-night-shift-workers for showing me the way!—interdisciplinary designer/artist/weirdo. I’m interested in the ways design can be used to foster community, support artists, and abolish prisons and police. 

While at Headlands:

During my time as Designer in Residence, I am looking forward to connecting with the varieties of Headlands communities (artists, workers, friends, turkeys, etc) and to exploring the spaces of connection Headlands Center for the Arts has with its immediate surroundings, the Bay Area in general, and the earth, and possibly space. I am hoping to use this time to begin shifting my practice into less reactive modes—to use this time to bring people together in weird ways, to study and create together.

 
Gallery
App Prototype Mockup
Good Swimmer, 2019–present; app mockup; built in collaboration with Madi Giovina and Alejandro Echevarria.
Publication Spread with handwritten text and collaged faces
Five Fingered Being, 2019; limited edition artist book by Grace Rosario Perkins.
Neon brand logo with text wrapping a bomb
40 Trillion DPI podcast episode art, 2021. With Jacob Kahn, Tara Marsden, and with work by dozens of contributors. 2020–present.
Mixed Media Digital
Book cover for Imminence, by Mariana Dimópulos, 2021; published by Transit Books.
Various pages from a design reader, in bright colors and text.
Dark Patterns Design Reader (various pages), 2020; co-designed and curated by Helen Ip.