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The MIT Press announces Grant Program for Diverse Voices recipients for 2024
Launched in 2021, the Grant Program for Diverse Voices from the MIT Press provides direct support for new work by authors who bring excluded or chronically underrepresented perspectives to the fields in which the press publishes, which include the sciences, arts, and humanities. Recipients are selected after submitting a book proposal and completing a successful peer review.
Strikethrough | Communication Arts
By Silas Munro 280 pages, hardcover, $45 Published by Letterform Archive letterformarchive.org So long as people abuse power, there will be the oppressed, marginalized, persecuted and ill-treated who will fight back and demand to be heard. From abolitionists, Black suffragists, war oppositionists and Black Panthers to LGBTQ+ rights and female equality supporters, protesters typographically visualize their voices on posters, pamphlets, pins, magazines, fine art and other printed media.
Fury Made Visible: Call and Response for Civil Rights through Graphic Design
Silas Munro on the Intentional Aesthetic of a Revolution “You’re bearing witness helplessly to something which everyone knows, and nobody wants to face.” –James Baldwin, 1962 Protest graphics are the products of a specific kind of urgency. This vital energy does not serve the time-pressured needs of a brand message or the clarion call of capitalism for design to grease the wheels of our economic engines.
The Provocative and Prescient Work of Archie Boston Jr.
Archie Boston Jr.'s logo for the Bicentennial Black Achievement Exhibit, 1976. When Archie Boston Jr., the nationally recognized art director, designer, educator, and author, talks about graphic design, he also talks about God, ethics, activism, race, and legacy—though he doesn’t use that last word when speaking about his career.
“Where Are All The Black Designers?” A Roundtable Discussion
This story is part of our Weekend Reads series, where we highlight a story we love from the archives. It was originally published on July 19, 2021. The day before Juneteenth was commemorated as a national holiday, recognizing for the first time, as a country, the day in June 1865 when the Black folk in Galveston, Texas, were told of their emancipation, I had the honor of sitting down with designers Dr. Cheryl D.
W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America
Compre online W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America, de The W.E.B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts, Battle-Baptiste, Whitney, Rusert, Britt na Amazon. Frete GRÁTIS em milhares de produtos com o Amazon Prime. Encontre diversos livros escritos por The W.E.B.
‘As, not for’: The critique goes on
Summer 2020 ‘As, not for’: The critique goes on Silas Munro various designers Sylvia Abernathy Emory Douglas W. E. B. Du Bois Buddy Esquire Jerome Harris ‘As, Not For: Dethroning Our Absolutes’ is an itinerant exhibition of work by black designers whose legacy has been neglected for too long One of the earliest pieces featured in Jerome Harris’s travelling exhibition ‘As, Not For’, which highlights African-American graphic design, is an information diagram designed by W. E. B.
W.E.B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America
Events W.E.B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America with Silas Munro W. E. B. Du Bois was a prolific author, renowned sociologist, fierce civil rights advocate, co-founder of the NAACP, and a historian of black lives. He was also a pioneer in data visualization. Working with ink, gouache, graphite, and photographic prints, Du Bois and his student and alumni collaborators at Atlanta University generated crisp, dynamic, and modern graphics as a form of infographic activism.
Typography as a Radical Act in an Industry Ever-dominated by White Men
Rubin typeface Letterforms are loaded cultural objects—they often reflect the people who made them and the story they want to tell. In the history of type, not every story gets told, though, and Tré Seals wants to change that. Seals started a type foundry called Vocal Type with the aim of creating typefaces that reflect a more diverse perspective. In his words: “This is a type foundry for creatives of color who feel they don’t have a say in their industry.
Silas Munro Takes Us to the "Land of Overwater Sunsets and Eternal Cool"
Weekend With Silas Munro illustration by Anna Rupprecht “Weekend With” is a new series that explores the world of design through the eyes of a designer on their days off. Our last installment took us on a typographic tour of Chinatown with Tracy Ma. This week, Silas Munro, founder of poly-mode, assistant professor at Otis College of Art and Design, and an advisor and chair emeritus at Vermont College of Fine Arts, take through a typical weekend in his adopted home of Los Angeles.
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