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Centered: People and Ideas Diversifying Design

CENTERED: People and Ideas Diversifying Design is now available! [smarturl.it/centered] Centered gives a voice to the people, places, methods, ideas, and beliefs that have been eclipsed or excluded by dominant design movements, through thirteen essays and interviews, including: - Gee’s Bend Quilters, by Stephen Child and Isabella D’Agnenica - A Chinese Typographic Archive, by YuJune Park and Caspar Lam - Indigenous Sovereignty and Design: An Interview with Sadie Red Wing (Her Shawl is Yellow) - The Truck Art of India, by Shantanu Suman - Decolonizing Graphic Design, A Must, by Cheryl D. Miller - And much more Filled with striking visuals from a range of global designers, Centered is a must-read and must-have for design practitioners, educators, students, and anyone interested in expanding narratives of design.

Read an excerpt from Centered, here!

An Incomplete Taxonomy of Amazigh Symbols (By: Dina Benbrahim) - Free Poster Download

An Incomplete Taxonomy of Amazigh Symbols (Chapter 8, Centered) - Free Poster Download (18" x 24" Poster, PDF) Design and Research by: Dina Benbrahim

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Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Non-Binary Field Guide for Graphic Designers

Available Now! Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Non-Binary Field Guild for Graphic Designers by Ellen Lupton, Farah Kafei, Jennifer Tobias, Josh A. Halstead, Kaleena Sales, Leslie Xia, and Valentina Vargara Published by Princeton Architectural Press, released in the Spring of 2021

Photo courtesy of Thomas Meredith (UT Austin)

Illustration by Jennifer Tobias, featured in Extra Bold. ("Intersectionality" is a term coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw)

Essays and Interviews

Left to right: 1) What it Means to be a Designer Today: Reflections, Questions, and Ideas from AIGA's Eye on Design by Liz Stinson and Jarrett Fuller 2) Black, Brown + Latinx Design Educators: Conversations on Design and Race by Kelly Walters 3) The Black Experience in Design: Identity Expression & Reflection (My essay is titled “Beyond the Universal: Positionality and Promise in an HBCU Classroom.” Editorial team: Anne H. Berry, Kelly Walters, Lesley-Ann Noel, Penina Laker, and Kareem Collie 4) Beyond Diversity by Rohit Bhargava and Jennifer Brown (Contributing Writer)

Excerpt from Extra Bold

NHL - Nashville Predators Black History Month Jersey Design

Designer for the 2024 Black History Month jersey for the Nashville Predators.

Writing for The Vocal Civilian

Exhibition Writing -
CHARACTERS: Type in Action (Featuring the work of Vocal Type)

(Print Magazine) The Black Experience in Graphic Design: 1968 and 2020

Honored to be included in this timely article: https://www.printmag.com/post/the-black-experience-in-graphic-design-1968-and-2020

Season 10: The Design of Business | The Business of Design

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Co-host with Omari Souza for Season 10 of The Design of Business | The Business of Design (brought to you by DesignObserver)

Type Study

Type Study: This ongoing series seeks to examine the lettering and type styles found in pre-gentrified, urban areas within Nashville's East and North side neighborhoods.

Beyond the Bauhaus

The content featured in Beyond the Bauhaus aims to highlight design contributions from underrepresented cultural and social groups that do not have roots in modernist or Bauhaus methods. The goal is to broaden the scope of what we teach and discuss in the classroom. These articles were written for AIGA's Design Educators Community, and available to read at: educators.aiga.org