The Cut "Cuts"
Gently Rejected Visual Poetry
This month, I started as monthly series for PRINT Magazine called Dr. Dori’s Cuts: 100 Words. No Filler, where I pair 100 words and one image as “an invitation to pause, reflect, and reimagine design’s role in cultural life”. Please check the series out every third Wednesday of the month, because it is cool and I really love writing/photographing the “cuts”.
As part of the monthly process, I offer PRINT Magazine editor, Deb Aldrich, two concepts from which to choose for the final post. This means that each month there is a rejected cut. Although some of the really really good ones might be deferred to another month, some of the just really good ones I will post here on my Substack.
CALL TO ACTION: Go to PRINT Magazine online and compare if you would have made the same editorial choice as Deb for each monthly “cut”.
Rejected Concept 01: Come Suay With Me
Graphic t-shirt pollution is destroying the world, but graphic tees are popular to share protest messages. Suay, a Los Angeles-based sewing and production shop, has resolved this contradiction of principles between sustainability and justice. Suay collects post-consumer waste and deadstock. Then, it employs skilled garment workers to remake them into new garments. On February 1st, Suay set up racks of donated t-shirts and sweatshirts and used a six-screen hand screen printer to give the old shirts new life as “No Ice” protest wear. Suay shows how the revolution “will not be televised”, but should be reprinted on second-hand graphic tees.
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