The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Expression & Reflection

There has never been a time when Black designers were not shaping, creating, packaging, distributing, and celebrating through, with, and by design. Black designers from across the diaspora have been integral to the development of our professions and practices, contributing to the design of typography and posters, chairs and wearables, modes of transport and methods of care, financial services, and speculative futures.

The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Expression & Reflection presents the work of six editors and over 70 designers, artists, curators, educators, students, and researchers who represent a wide cross-section of Black diasporic identities and multi-disciplinary practices. 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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Managing Editor: Anne H. Berry; Developmental Editor: Jennifer Rittner; Creative Director: Kelly Walters; Cover Design + Interior Design: renald Louissaint; Copy Editor: Jamie McGhee

Awards + Recognition: Nonobvious Book Awards 2022; Society of Typographic Arts, 100 Competition 2022; Fast Company, The Best Design Books of 2022; 2022 Design Incubation Communication Design Award, Scholarship: Publications; AIGA 50 Books / 50 Covers 2022