Systemic Justice
Systemic Justice is a European-based organisation of legal experts working to radically transform how the law serves communities fighting for racial, social, and economic justice. As a studio committed to resourcing movements for liberation, we’ve supported them across editorial, digital, and brand interpretation and strategy work—shaping assets that make complex legal advocacy information easier to find, understand, and share.
Project Team
Editorial Design: Alaïs de Saint Louvent
The Challenge
Systemic Justice’s work sits at the intersection of legal expertise, community organising, and public communication. Because we understand the nuances of movement-led work, we knew their materials needed to hold nuance without becoming inaccessible and earn institutional trust without losing urgency—reaching people across languages, devices, and contexts.
They also needed a versatile visual system that could scale across multiple formats—reports, toolkits, and a forthcoming website—ensuring digital sustainability without starting from scratch for every new output.
What We Did
We treated digital accessibility and usability as the baseline, not a final polish. We expanded and interpreted existing brand guidelines into a more inclusive and versatile visual language, assigning clear “jobs” to colours in an extended palette. Leveraging our expertise in information architecture, we refined typographic hierarchy to create a bridge between authority and approachability.
Alongside that, we designed inclusive editorial outputs for both print and digital use, with layouts built for navigation, scanning, and comprehension. To make complex information easier to publish and reuse, we developed a library of visual components—data visualisations, maps, and structured content blocks—that can be applied consistently across future digital and print materials.
Impact
This work helped Systemic Justice communicate with more clarity and reach without flattening the complexity of their mission. By building a consistent, accessible design infrastructure, we have made it easier for readers to orient themselves—whether they’re accessing materials via assistive technology or skimming for key policy points.
By designing with global movements in mind, the outputs are better positioned to travel across contexts: from conference handouts to downloadable and accessible PDFs. Importantly, the system supports the organisation’s day-to-day digital autonomy: new reports and research can be produced with confidence, ensuring their mission for systemic change remains visible and coherent.
