Queer Justice Exhibit

Isometric Studio
2025

This animation shows the development of the Lambda Sans custom typeface, declaring each core exhibition theme as a set of "We" statements, translating dense legal language into simple, emotive values.
In addition to the custom Lambda Sans font, ABC Diatype Mono is used for subtitles and tabular information, and Circular is used for body copy. These feel compatible in attitude while providing readerly access to both standing and seated visitors.
The traveling exhibition is designed as a set of five moveable carts, each of which skillfully layers images and typography on plywood panels that present section titles, timelines, quotes, and didactic text.
The typography visualizes the grief and solidarity of a community threatened by the stigma of pandemic elimination. It captures the bravery of activists who literally laid their bodies on the line to challenge the federal government.
The typography is designed to complement handlettering within images, creating a vehicle to express and reflect on passionate protest within the LGBTQ+ community that forever altered the course of history.

Isometric collaborated with The American LGBTQ+ Museum and Lambda Legal to create Queer Justice: 50 Years of Lambda Legal and LGBTQ+ Rights, a traveling exhibition that is touring cultural centers in seven major American cities. The design is rooted in an impassioned aesthetic of picket sign activism and protest, centering the people at the heart of every major queer rights case in U.S. history. We designed a custom typeface, Lambda Sans, based on the headline of a 1970’s flyer by the Gay Activists Alliance. The flyer explains the significance of the lambda symbol to the LGBTQ+ movement, describing it as “an exchange of energy…a peoples’ will aimed at common oppressors.” The typeface adopts the raw, hand-carved aesthetic of the flyer headline, deploying select oblique characters and ligatures that create visual tension and energy in the composition of exhibition section titles.

Partner
Andy Chen
Partner
Waqas Jawaid
Senior Designer
Paolo Fabbri
Architectural Designer
Abhishek Thakkar
Content Director
Kate McBride
Graphic Designer
Junyi Shi
Graphic Designer
Jacob Lee
Graphic Design Intern
Clara Angela
Curator
Lauraberth Lime
Fabricator
Parz Designs
Printer
Full Point Graphics
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Judges Choice: Cymone Wilder