March 15 2021, 12:45 pm | BY Ricki Green | 5 Comments
International branding and digital agency Base Design has expanded into Asia-Pacific with the launch of a new Australian studio located in Melbourne.
Joining the company’s international network of studios in New York, Brussels and Geneva, Base Design Melbourne is headed up by husband-and-wife duo Daniel Peterson and Caroline Cox. The pair originally met working at Studio Ongarato in Melbourne before moving to New York City, where Peterson worked at acclaimed agency 2×4 before joining Base Design in 2015.
Says Peterson: “We’re excited to bring Base’s incredibly strong culture and unique way of thinking and doing things to Australia. We want to provide an Australian perspective to Base globally, but also to provide a more global perspective to our work locally.”
Bostock v. Clayton County.
[1] There, the Court held that by barring employer discrimination against any individual “because of such individual’s . . . sex,” Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 also bars employment discrimination because an individual is gay or transgender. The paper then speculates about how much
Bostock will affect how likely lower court judges will read other “sex” discrimination prohibitions in the U.S. Code in the same way, in part based on a canvass of the text of about 150 of those prohibitions. The paper also discusses the religion-based defenses that defendants may raise in response under Title VII itself, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. And the paper suggests how