The Black Experience In Design Book
Book Contributor
The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Reflection & Expression presents writings by 70 designers, artists, curators, educators, students, and researchers who represent a cross-section of Black diasporic identities and multi-disciplinary practices, covering topics from Afrofuturism, biophilic design as a form of Black activism, multi-community architecture, and the intersections of art and design, to new prismatic practices and the history of African fractals. Forewords by Emory Douglas and Ruha Benjamin frame the book in a historical and socio-political context, and an Afterword by Eddie Opara offers an intimate, spiritual coda.
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The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Reflection & Expression presents writings by 70 designers, artists, curators, educators, students, and researchers who represent a cross-section of Black diasporic identities and multi-disciplinary practices, covering topics from Afrofuturism, biophilic design as a form of Black activism, multi-community architecture, and the intersections of art and design, to new prismatic practices and the history of African fractals. Forewords by Emory Douglas and Ruha Benjamin frame the book in a historical and socio-political context, and an Afterword by Eddie Opara offers an intimate, spiritual coda.
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With A Cast Of Colored Stars Exhibition
Exhibition Design Assistant & Artist contributor
Inspired by the visual representation found in early African-American cinema and music, “With a Cast of Colored Stars” highlights the evolution of racialized iconography in Black American popular entertainment. Featuring music sheet covers, theater advertisements, film posters and vinyl record covers that span from 1836-1979, as well as print works from artists and designers interpreting and re-mixing from this historical imagery, the exhibit challenges us to reckon with how particular language and imagery contributed to racial stereotypes and what cultural symbols have “defined Blackness” as we know it today.
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Inspired by the visual representation found in early African-American cinema and music, “With a Cast of Colored Stars” highlights the evolution of racialized iconography in Black American popular entertainment. Featuring music sheet covers, theater advertisements, film posters and vinyl record covers that span from 1836-1979, as well as print works from artists and designers interpreting and re-mixing from this historical imagery, the exhibit challenges us to reckon with how particular language and imagery contributed to racial stereotypes and what cultural symbols have “defined Blackness” as we know it today.
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