Colourful slushies represented the pipeline of graphic design graduates.
Slushie Installation
November, 2016
Billy Blue College of Design
Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney campuses
The gendered pipeline of graduates emerging from graphic design qualifications (Monash University) has become a playful data visualisation where the statistics were poured as brightly coloured slushies.
The installation (below left) was created collating each decade of data into slushie recipes (below right). Percentages of women were shown as a raspberry flavour, percentages of men were shown as blue lagoon, while unknown and other genders were shown as pineapple. Pouring each of the five decades offered an opportunity to play with the data and contemplate what the resulting gender mix means to the experience of women as they enter the workforce.
The Slushie Installation challenges the design industry to contemplate how this pipeline has impacted equitable career opportunities, hiring practices and studio environments. The comparison of each decade aims to ignite conversations and thoughts on the data.
Above: The Slushie Installation engaged participants in thinking about the gendered pipeline of graphic design graduates.
Above: Recipe cards contextualised each decade in a playful way.
Above: Animated gifs showing the gendered break down of each decade.