Reading Response 6 – JD

Celebrating the African-American Practitioners Absent From Way Too Many Classroom Lectures by Madeleine Morley, Eye on Design, 2018,

Typography as a Radical Act in an Industry Ever-dominated by White Men by Silas Munro, Eye on Design, 2019

Design Gets More Diverse by Alice Rawsthorn, NYTimes, 2011

Design industries, like many other industries, face issues of racism or discrimination. Many people of another race or gender can feel boxed out and ignored. They feel this way because who they are and what they have done is simply not being recognized. This causes them to be ignored in design or other industries. This causes their stories to be untold until someone finally looks at them. I was looking at the reading by Madeleine Morley where they were talking about their research into African designers. The talk about how there was little information about them made their research very difficult. This shows how when we don’t give attention to diversity in design or other fields, it will simply be ignored and forgotten. This is why it is important to have diversity in not just design but other industries as well.
Diversity in design is a very important thing to have, and I think there are many ways to have it become part of design. One way is to teach design students about diverse designers who are less well-known or are ignored. This can designers from all over the world, not just in America. Many great designers do not get the same recognition that others do. The designers don’t receive this recognition for a lot of reasons, whether it be because of their race, their financial situation, or even what they believe. This causes their work to be forgotten or simply go unnoticed. This will allow even more diverse styles to be introduced into the design. It will also give these designers more reignition. It will also allow diverse designers to gain a voice and be able to spread their views about themselves and their beliefs to more people. As stated in the reading by Alice Rawsthorn “designers are defining their own approaches, which are influencing their peers elsewhere.” This helps to prove my point by shining a light on more diverse designers. It allows others to learn from them and create a wider range of designs.
I believe that in 20 years, design will have evolved greatly. I believe it would have introduced new styles of design. From how everything is structured to how it is used in the design piece. This is because as the world changes, so does design to reflect, the change in the world. As shown in the reading by Silas Munro who talked about how they introduced diversity into typography. How they changed the structure and style of type to reflect a more diverse voice This shows how design changes along with the world it is in. I believe how design is done would have changed as well. As shown through history, as technology evolves, the way design is made changes along with it. Finally, typography would have changed as well, showing new fonts and font styles that reflect, the change in design. Design history would have also changed, introducing more designers and art periods that have come and gone. There could also be lesser-known designers from the past who could be added to design history. This is because there are many parts of history that we are only just discovering, and the same could be said about design. This is why design is important because it is something that is always changing alongside the human race.

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Letterforms are loaded cultural objects Response

Hurry up and do it before someone else does!”

Definition Buenos Aires