BIPOC Design History

BIPOC Design History is a series of live and recorded classes shedding light on marginalized voices. Get in touch [email protected]

[永良新 Arata Nagara @aratanagara]

学部3年のときにつくったアートブックを上げてみます。表紙は紙ヤスリ。本文用紙は新聞紙。銀のスプレーを吹いてからレーザー彫刻で表面を飛ばすことで、文字を通して地の新聞紙の模様が透けて見えます。背はアクリル板を挟んだボルト綴じ。カバーはブルーシートで、デジタル刺繍ミシンで銀糸を刺繍

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the idea of "outsider art" would break a lot of you people's minds

[Letterform Archive @Lett_Arc]

“The Black Experience in Graphic Design” by Dorothy Jackson, Print Magazine Vol. 22, No. 6, New York, Nov/Dec 1968. #BlackDesigners #BlackHistoryMonth #bhm

[People’s Graphic Design Archive @PeoplesGDArc]

“Day of Solidarity with the Afro-American People” poster from 1968 by Daysi Garcia

OSPAAAL created hundreds of posters in support of oppressed people, their sole goal being the decolonization of countries in the post-World War II period.

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#PeoplesGDArchive

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Our course Black Design In America is 50% off through February with the code BLACKHISTORY50 at checkout.

Watch it anytime. Happy Black History Month. 🖤#DesignHistory #BlackDesign #blackhistorymonth

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Ziddi Msangi discuses Kanga – a community authored cloth garment that speaks cultural norms through distinctive design systems and Swahili phrases typeset in Arabic and Latin Alphabets. #DesignHistory

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books we want designers to be reading in 2026. full list on our site.

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Reverberations: Lineages in Design History made Hyperallergic's list of '25’s top NYC exhibitions! 🌟 Thanks to everyone who visited, supported, collaborated, & believed in this exhibition. Here’s to more art that challenges, uplifts, & reverberates. 💖
https://t.co/2OHVa38CfN

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We’re thrilled to launch the Polymode Foundation, a 501(c)(3) centering Indigenous, Black & POC futures in art + design. Our end-of-year goal: raise $40K for Designed to Be Red, operations, BIPOC Design History + scholarships. Please consider donating 🩷

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@siborg81 The exhibition also features Tahir Hemphill, Julia Mallory, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and William Villalongo and Shraddha Ramani. Curated by Tiffany E. Barber, it will run September 18—December 13, 2025 in the Center’s Jordan Schnitzer Gallery.

https://t.co/mu2GEDLRNv

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Opening Tonight! 🖤

We are pleased to announce our love affair with DuBois continues, with @siborg81 exhibiting at the Print Center New York 2025 exhibition Data Consciousness: Reframing Blackness in Contemporary Print.

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@siborg81 The exhibit brings together work by Black contemporary artists who explore expanded modes of printmaking to question the complex interplay between race, technology, and representation in our increasingly data-driven world.

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Today’s lecture is from New Red Order, a public secret society of artists and collaborators who use humor, media, and performance to confront colonialism and interrogate cultural appropriation.

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Join us with Sarah Sockbeson as she offers a powerful look into the design, materials, and meaning behind Wabanaki ash & sweetgrass basketry.

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https://t.co/mjTrvYOdaz

Through individual talks, they examine typography from technical, cultural, and creative lenses. Class will be recorded!

🕒 3–4:45pm EST

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Type Fans! You won't want to miss this.

In this collaborative session with Kevin King (@calligraphio), Leo Vicenti (@lowerearthorigin), and Chris Skillern (@tulseytype), they explore the vital role of typography in Indigenous language and visual sovereignty.

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We are live! 📚

Don't forget, if you can't make it with us today, a recording of the class with be available in your video library in a couple of weeks.

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Hi Design Twtr!

We are hosting a free class this weekend on the design of native-made posters. This lecture is a part of our broader course, (re)Creating Turtle Island: Native American Design Through Remembered History.

Please sign up & help up spread the word! Link in bio.

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See you in class!

#juneteenth2025