Hommes,
tous à Chaumont!

As students, we are concerned about our future.
As female students, we are concerned about our future in graphic design.
As Alice Rawsthorn wrote, “If you flick through the design history books, you’ll notice that pretty much all the “great designers” have something in common. They’re men”.
Our unanswered question is: why?

For this project we decided to map the Chaumont Festival.
We analysed all the information about gender we could find, which were the names of the judges and the winners.
We only found complete information about the International Competition and only from 1998 to 2014.
Thenceforth we transformed it into percentages and charts and the conclusion was the expected: women are in minority.

We created two posters that would pass as posters of an edition of the festival, in which the theme would be "mapping gender inequality", but by having “1998-2014” instead of a year or the number of the edition, they imply something else. Also, because the poster isn't neutral, but takes a stand regarding the supposed theme strongly representing the disproportion between women and men that were either judges or winners of the festival.

So we leave you with these questions still unanswered:
Why are women still underrepresented?
Is being a woman a barrier in graphic design?

Jury

Winners

Jury

Winners