Fritha Lewin Studio is a design studio focused on helping the LGBTQIA+ community with visibility, safety and connection through the use of a unique 3D bead system we have dubbed “Trojan Unicorn Glitter.”
Each “bead” can be used as a tiny element on a mobile phone app or printed at about one meter high. We have created a typeface that can be printed at seven meters high to be used as public art, on large scale advertising hoardings or large vehicle livery.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss a potential collaboration.
A lot of queer people feel exiled from their communities. I designed this after seeing the posters for the Southbank You Belong Here festival in 2024. I liked the sentiment.
These letters can be printed up to seven meters high. It’s very fun designing with them. It feels like I am singing at the top of my lungs!
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When I was 18 I went to stay on a kibbutz – Ginnegar, near Nazareth. I was traumatised and feeling lost. I left the UK with a one-way ticket, a shabby old army backpack, no guidebook, no phone. At the kibbutz there were people with the numbers on their wrists, tattoos from the concentration camps.
At the same time, the other volunteers and I would hitch rides with Palestinians who were always friendly – sometimes giving us food, always kind. One night, me and a couple of volunteers went out in Jerusalem as a birthday treat. We met a lot of Palestinians and they invited us home for food. In their culture there’s a tradition of keeping a bed in the living room for guests.
The Israelis were kind too – they gave us work, invited us to Friday Shabbat, told us their family stories.
I was just a kid. I didn’t know the history, not really. I just saw things: the teenagers at the kibbutz disco carrying rifles. Gangs of young Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem bullying falafel sellers. Those images stuck.
The Gaza situation now feels like watching a playground bully kicking the shit out of a much smaller kid. I was bullied at primary school too. I used to sit in a corner for hours, playing a juggling game with bouncy balls. This whole design system comes out of that. It’s in the language of a 12-year-old – beads like the ones you’d string into a friendship bracelet.
The murals I design look good in glossy, city environments where more traditional street art with spray paint and marker pen might not work.
