When the world erases, design must affirm.
Pride is resistance.
Pride is resistance.
Design can be activism!
Forbidden Fruit Speculative Design Series
By Niko Räty (2025)
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Forbidden Fruit is a digital art series that playfully explores queerness, sexuality, and self-expression through fruit and emoji symbolism. Blending familiar icons like the peach and eggplant with Pride and Trans flags, the series reflects on digital desire, dating culture, and the tension between visibility and subtle intimacy, where expressions of identity move between online and offline spaces, sometimes celebrated, sometimes concealed, depending on the stage of democracy.