Parents Must Unite + Fight (or Hackney Flashers: Agitprop, Work, and Socialist Feminism in England) accompanies Camille Richert’s ongoing research on the Hackney Flashers collective, a group of nine activist women who engaged in agitprop from 1974 to 1980 in the working class neighbourhood of Hackney, East London. A book as a tool, part placard, part board, in reference to the activist, artistic and educational practices of the Hackney Flashers. A book to hold and wave, a support for action and learning.

Published by Tombolo Presses, the book was designed by Coline Sunier and Charles Mazé and typeset in Mazé’s Axo (Abyme, 2024).

The art biennale Anozero’21—22: Meia-Noite was curated by Elfi Turpin and Filipa Oliveira in Coimbra, Portugal. Coline Sunier and Charles Mazé’s visual identity is based on the combination of two symbols, ○ and /, extracted from Anozero’s existing graphic identity to create a continuity with previous editions. In the designers’ hands, ○ becomes a moon ? and its fluctuations ???????? and / becomes the night ////////// and ////////// its ////////// troubles and uncertainties //////////, evoking the biennale’s curatorial project. From abstraction to narrative: from a circle to the moon (or a disco ball?), from shading to twilight.

All communication materials are set in Charles Mazé’s Mercure (Abyme, 2021), Regular, Italic and Transcript. The choice of a serif typeface gives a literary and scientific aspect to the communication – an echo to the Joanina library in Coimbra and its incarnation of western knowledge – and differentiate the design from the past visual identities of Anozero.