The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Expression & Reflection

Author: Anne H. Berry, Kareem Collie, Penina Acayo Laker, Dr. Lesley Ann Noel, Jennifer Rittner, Kelly Walters
Publisher: Allworth
Year: 2022
Pages: 600
ISBN: 978-1621537854

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 an historical and socio-political context, and an Afterword by Eddie Opara offers an intimate, spiritual coda.