Shafira Vidyamaharani

As a local graphic designer, Shafira produces poster, typographic, and music artworks for artists, non-profit, community, and grassroots cultural productions including New Forms Festival, Acceleration Radio, TAKEOVER Skateboarding, and the Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy (CSSDP). With a varied design background through independent practice, studio agencies, start-ups, and tech corporation Nokia, Shafira is part of the second cohort of Simon Fraser University’s Communication Research for Social Change M.A. researching subcultures, harm reduction communication, and the role of art, posters, and zines in mediated grassroots activism. They love music, photography, and is passionate about artistic means of transcendence, social change, and resistance.