Title & Author:

The Black experience in design : identity, expression & reflection / Anne H. Berry, Kareem Collie, Penina Acayo Laker, Lesley-Ann Noel, Jennifer Rittner, Kelly Walters.

Publication:

New York : Allworth Press, [2022]
©2022

Description:

595 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes interviews.
Index available on the internet.
Includes bibliographical references.
(from table of contents) Foreword -- Introduction (4 contributions) -- Design practices (6 contributions) -- Design education (6 contributions) -- Design scholarship (5 contributions) -- Activism, advocacy & community-engaged design (8 contributions) -- Afrofuturism in design (5 contributions) -- Journeys in design (7 contributions) -- Design = art [not equal] design (5 contributions) -- Collective, radical & liberatory spaces in design (6 contributions) -- Guiding questions -- Glossary -- (2 contributions) -- Afterword.
Foreword / Emory Douglas -- Foreword / Ruha Benjamin -- Introduction. Why is this book needed? / Anne H. Berry -- Searching for a Black aesthetic in American graphic design / Sylvia Harris -- On Sylvia Harris: the contributions of Black designers / Anne H. Berry & Steven Heller -- Designing with complexity: An intersectional view / Jennifer Rittner -- Design practices. Chapter introduction / Kareem Collie -- An exhibition by Black designers / Dorothy Hayes -- In conversation: Darhil Crooks, Ian Spalter & Dantley Davis on practicing design while Black, with Kareem Collie -- Another brick in the wall / R. Vann Graves -- The four pillars / Jon Key -- To be just ... steward: Some life lyrics / Quinlin B. Messenger -- In conversation: Annika Hansteen-Izora on identity, community & authenticity, with Jennifer Rittner -- Design education. Chapter introduction / Anne H. Berry -- In conversation: Maurice Woods & Anne H. Berry on meeting the demands of the future -- The new visual abnormal / Colette Gaiter -- Unvisible (What's the scenario?) / Steve Jones -- The strong Black woman / Terresa Moses -- A reading list for the politics of design / Chris Rudd -- Beyond the universal: Positionality & promise in an HBCU classroom / Kaleena Sales -- Design scholarship. Chapter introduction / Lesley-Ann Noel -- Follow the golden ratio from Africa to the Bauhaus for a cross-cultural aesthetic for images / Audrey G. Bennett -- The pause: Reflecting on a righteous consciousness that informs our design as Afrikans / Nii Kommey Botchway -- Finding Anthony: Establishing a research trajectory / Cheryl D. Miller -- Bondage by paper: Devices of slaveholding ingenuity / Alicia Olushola Ajayi -- At the Jim Crow Museum, we use racist objects to engage hearts & heads in social justice / David Pilgrim-- Activism, advocacy & community-engaged design. Chapter introduction / Kareem Collie & Penina Laker -- Participatory & emanicipatory aspirations in Afrika / Mugendi K. M'Rithaa -- From the Black anti-Abelist diary: A tribute to my Black disabled son from a Black disabled mother / Jennifer White-Johnson -- The infrastructure of care: community design, healing & organizational post-traumatic growth / Sloan Leo -- The center in the margins: locating intimacy in multi-communities / June A. Grant -- Biophilia patterns in Black & Brown spaces / Michele Y. Washington -- In conversation: Amos Kennedy & Kareem Collie on advocating for humanity -- The preconditions to healing / Liz Ogbu -- In conversation: Raja Schaar & Jennifer Rittner on sustainability as a historically Black practice -- Afrofuturism in design. Chapter introduction / Lesly-Ann Noel -- From algorithms to Afro-rithms in Afrofuturism / Lonny Avi Brooks -- A Black-centered design ethos: engaging Afrofuturism in catalyzing more inclusive technological futures / Woodrow W. Winchester III -- What type of ancestor do you want to be? / Adah Parris -- Black secret technologies / John Jennings -- Dark matter's magic in design / Folayemi Wilson -- Journeys in design. Chapter introduction / Kelly Walters -- The Black designer's journey: Theory of change / Vocasta Lachapelle -- In pursuit of a prismatic profession/ Forest Young -- &&&: Provoking type / Schessa Garbutt -- 1 word / 1 object / Former and current design students -- Curating my way into design: A work in progress / Michelle Joan Wilkinson -- My journey to design / Sabine Maxine Lopez -- Moving on: Interview with white male academic / Aisha Richards -- Design = Art ≠ Design. Chapter introduction / Kelly Walters -- In conversation: Nontsikelelo Mutiti & Kelly Walters on image making, conceptual process, and the tools of design -- In conversation: Cey Adams & Kelly Walters on design detours & artistic possibilities -- Design (is) art. If you want it to be. / Rick Griffith -- In conversation: Mimi Ọnụọha & Romi Morrison on unsettling the equivalents -- In conversation: Rhea L. Combs & Anne H. Berry on representing everyday Black lives through film & photography -- Collective, radical & liberatory spaces in design. Chapter introduction / Lesley-Ann Noel -- for colored girls who feel trapped in white institutions / Lauren Williams -- The Black student union / Terrence Moline -- Make the path by talking / Maurice Cherry -- Building BADG: The guild as a model for liberatory space / Malene Barnett -- Designer profile: Ari Melenciano / Lesley-Ann Noel & Anne H. Berry -- This is our time! adrienne maree brown on design, liberation, and transformation as told to Lesley-Ann Noel -- Guiding questions -- Glossary -- Letter to future designers / Penina Laker -- On writing & editing this book / Jennifer Rittner & Anne H. Berry -- Afterword / Eddie Opara -- Bios.

Summary:

"'The Black Experience in Design', an anthology centering a range of perspectives, spotlights teaching practices, research stories, and conversations from a Black/African diasporic lens. Through the voices represented, this text exemplifies the inherently collaborative and multidisciplinary nature of design, providing access to ideas and topics for a variety of audiences, meeting people as they are and wherever they are in their knowledge about design"-- Page 4 of cover.

Resources:
Index
(Related Electronic Resource ; password on page 596):

ISBN:

9781621537854 (paperback)
1621537854 (paperback)
(eBook)
9781621537861
1621537862

Subject:

African American artists Social conditions.
Graphic artists Social conditions.
African American aesthetics.
African American arts.
African diaspora.
Graphic arts United States.
Graphic arts.
Design United States.
Design.
Artistes noirs américains Conditions sociales.
Esthétique noire américaine.
Arts noirs américains.
Africains Pays étrangers.
Arts graphiques États-Unis.
Arts graphiques.
Design États-Unis.
Art and Design.
History of art.
Fine arts: art forms.
United States

Form/genre:

Essay
essays.
Essays
Essais.

Added entries:

Berry, Anne H., editor, contributor.
Collie, Kareem, editor, contributor.
Laker, Penina Acayo, editor, contributor.
Noel, Lesley-Ann, editor, contributor.
Rittner, Jennifer, editor, contributor.
Walters, Kelly, editor, contributor.
Louissaint, Renald, book designer, cover designer.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315273
Call No.: 315273
Copy: 1
Status: Available