Pentagram fight the tampon tax
Paula Scher and co produce the identity for America's first policy institute dedicated to advancing menstrual access
Should tampons be subject to sales tax? Not according to a growing number of campaigners across the world, who believe feminine hygiene products should be treated as medical necessities, which are not subject to tax mark-up in many countries.
Canada has already scrapped its tax on tampons, and groups in Britain and America hope to see the policy adopted more widely. Now one of the world’s leading design studios has thrown its weight behind the cause.
Pentagram’s Paula Scher and her team have created an identity for Period Equity, a new non-profit organisation that is the USA’s first and only law and policy institute dedicated to advancing menstrual access, affordability and safety in the U.S.
Scher, who is more closely associated with graphic design than copywriting, even changed the group’s name, switching in the word “Period”, which lends itself to neat punctuation puns in US English, to change it from “the slightly off-putting Menstrual Equality,” Pentagram explains.
“Scher says when the group ultimately achieves its goal, the name can be inverted to “Equity, Period,”” the agency adds.
Until then, it will be reproducing this sharp, red, white and black identity across its stationery, website, tote bags, t-shirts and more.
