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

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


Questions/Prompts

  • How do we change the commercial design field to include a diversity of voices and visions?

What will the commercial design field and the study of design history look like in 20 years?


Reading Response :
I think adding people of all races and beliefs really helps have new ideas that maybe people have not seen or heard of. So by changing the commercial design to include diversity, it can help bring so many different views that are not used in the media and take what history they know and include it for the public. There are a lot of ways in our day in age where there is a huge push into letting minority groups have more chances in the work field. With the internet all working together, there is always a group of people trying to get more colored people in the background or even as the face and it works well for brands. Advertising is a good way to show how diversity can be expressed since we don’t get to see many people of color on Tv or ads as the main focus. As well as in the design aspect which for the most part, you can sometimes tell who the main audience is from just seeing the logo, characters or art style.

I think that in 20 years, commercial design will have so much more to offer as for design history. We already get to see so many designers and artists on social media talk about their experience in big titles and encourage others. There will be so many more ideas that take form from other arts and cultures that we might not have thought of now.

Annotations Links:
#1 Lets people see a side of the designer
#2 Using diversity in his work
#3 Using culture and background to develop their artwork