Present Tense : Wāhine Toi Aotearoa — a paper record.

Present Tense : Wāhine Toi Aotearoa — a paper record. documents the collective work of Aotearoa New Zealand’s feminist design community who participated in the 2019 poster project and exhibition hīkoi Present Tense : Wāhine Toi Aotearoa led by typographer, designer and artist Catherine Griffiths, founder of the independent, volunteer non-profit platform Designers Speak (Up). This collection of texts and posters documents the current landscape of women/womxn/wāhine/-identifying and non-binary folx in design and the unsung diversity of Aotearoa design. This volume documents and continues the work of the exhibition, providing space for myriad voices to be heard, supported, and championed. Edited by Catherine Griffiths Published by Vapour Momenta Books, 2023 Soft cover with A2 poster folded to dust-jacket wrapped onto silkscreen-printed cover, 328 pages, section sewn binding, 665 images (photographs, facsimiles, posters), 6.75 × 9.5 inches