How to Degrowth: A Zine

Degrowth is a rejection of capitalistic virtues. Degrowth centers the value of care work, human relationships, and well-being for all. This is in contrast with the current system, under which commodity production and consumption is valued over all else. Capitalism is not structured to satisfy human needs. In fact, the system is structured to keep people in need in order to prevent liberation for the poor. Degrowth calls for disrupting artificial scarcity, reducing unnecessary labor, and restructuring the economy to be centered around human thriving and ecological balance. This zine outlines strategies for communities, policies, and individual folks to begin to adopt degrowth values.

I wrote, designed, and risograph printed this zine in 2024. The headline type is Garibaldi. This is a typeface designed by Vocal Type, a foundry working to diversify design by hiring and building community with marginalized races and genders. The typeface itself is designed after Italian anti-fascist material distributed during WWII.

The body copy is Elza, the narrow width and semibold weight. This type family was created by Daniel Sabino, a designer who studied typography at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona—the institution at which I studied degrowth in the summer of 2023.

Proofing by Titivillus.