Developed during a design course at HDK–Valand, University of Gothenburg, this project explored how visual communication and everyday artefacts could contribute to broader and more nuanced expressions of gay men’s culture.
Combining research with lived experience, I investigated existing symbols, cultural references and questions of identity, visibility and belonging. The work developed into experiments with graphic language, photography, illustration and concepts for physical and digital artefacts — exploring how familiar cultural expressions might be reinterpreted, personalised or expanded.
The material shown here is a later editorial development of the original project, combining selected research and writing with visual experiments and photography from Stockholm EuroPride.
The project was conceived as a starting point rather than a finished outcome. Its original proposal included participatory digital tools and customisable physical artefacts, and it continues to provide a framework for smaller projects exploring information design, identity, diversity and visual culture.
