NYCxDESIGN is guided by core values of community, creativity, inclusivity, diversity, and sustainable design for the greater good. Beyond our annual Festival, our year-round programming provides a platform for NYC’s diverse design talent, from students and emerging designers to seasoned professionals. Each program fosters connection, education, and inspiration, empowering the next generation to use design as a powerful tool for positive impact and addressing the world’s most pressing needs.
Words are being erased. Books banned. Truths rewritten.
As governments, platforms, and institutions try to control what we can say, Designers can’t stay neutral. CENSOR THIS! is a public act of creative defiance—part installation, part workshop, part typographic riot—staged at ThoughtMatter’s studio during NYCxDESIGN Festival 2025.
This event calls on designers and the public to push back. Not with speeches, but with type. With layout. With ink. We’re reclaiming the words they’ve blocklisted, the typefaces they’ve sanitized, and the voices they’ve tried to bury.
We’re inviting designers and the public to reclaim language.
Come break the rules with us. Be bold. Be visible. Do what design is meant to do: say something that matters.
Because silence isn’t a strategy. It’s surrender.
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