Week 10 Agenda

Tasks Due Today from Week 9

• Review Week 9 Agenda
• Post your Research Project Presentation Proposal
• Add comment with your design/personal manifesto to the Manifesto! post
• Submit Week 9 Homework Checklist

Check-in (10 min)

Freewrite – The Art of Noticing (15 min)

Prompt: In your language of choice, write continuously in your notebook for 10 minutes about what you noticed this week when completing the task. Don’t edit, or correct, don’t stop, just write. Feel free to share or not.

This week’s task brought to you by Nathaly:

Track the Moon

Try to stay aware of what time of day it is and what cycle of the moon that you’re in… try to look at the night sky each night. Take a pause from you nightime routine and look at the night sky.

ART OF NOTICING

Next Week’s Prompt by Dianna:

Sketch A Room You Just Left

Take in your physical environment carefully, then move to.a different one. Now sketch the room you just left. It doesn’t need to be a detailed re-creation, but strive to capture the basics of the space, including it’s contents.

ART OF NOTICING

Activities

Below, find the information covered in this session. Complete all of the following activities, videos, and assignments.

1. Small group assignment review (15 minutes with a group of 3)

How did it go?

• Peer-Review of your Research Essay – Stereotype – peer feedback
• Research Project Presentation Proposal – share your proposal
• Manifesto! Share your own Manifesto

2. Designer’s Cookbook: Influences + Lineages Beyond the Bauhaus

Over the next three weeks, as you work on your Research Presentation, we will explore the evolution of design and add to the lineage with voices often missing from the history books.

We will look at the evolution of commercial design by reviewing the western canon and weaving in underrepresented designers, movements, and influences.

The goal is to explore/develop your own design aesthetic.

Why are you drawn to one visual aesthetic over another? What are the ingredients (influences) that make up your visual style?

Together let’s make a Designer’s Cookbook (or suggest another name for this).

Over the three weeks you will write (3) posts, 200 word each about an artist, designer, philosopher, or movement that has been left out of design history. And with example images, demonstrate how they are part of your design lineage and aesthetic. Choose (1) early/mid-20th Century, (1) late 20th Century/early 2000’s, and (1) contemporary designer to showcase to the class.

To give context, so we can ask “why were so many voices missing from the field of design history?” We will watch a few videos that give us an overview/refresher of the western canon that has had an outsized influence on the commercial design aesthetic. Login to LinkedIn Learning with your Public Library Card (see LinkedIn Learning Access) and watch in the Course: Learning Graphic Design History.

3. Meet Dr. Cheryl D. Miller -November 21st, 6pm in P123

Location: City Tech – Pearl 123

Designer Spotlight: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Audience Q+A: 7:00 PM – 7:30 PM

Book Signing: 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM (free books for City Tech Students!)

4. Designers (often) Absent from Design History: Select 3!

Choose three designers or design movements that speak to you. Choose one from each time period. Start with some of the examples below but even better, find others! Then write about them for your (3) Designer’s Cookbook posts. We will choose in class and will add new designers as you choose from the list. If you missed today’s class and all the selections below are taken, find your own or contact me for options.

*For this project, please try to focus on commercial designers rather than visual artists.

Books/Resources

• Revision Path Podcast highlighting black creatives
• BIPOC in Design, OpenLab OER by Prof. George Larkins
• BIPOC Design History
• Inclusion & Exclusion resources from COMDTheory OER
• Hispanic Women and Their Typographic Legacy
• Silas Munro, “W.E.B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America”
• Centered : People and Ideas Diversifying Design curated by Kaleena Sales
• Racism Untaught by Lisa E. Mercer and Terresa Moses
• An Anthology of Blackness edited by Terresa Moses and Omari Souza
• Design Social Change: Take Action, Work Toward Equity, and Challenge the Status Quo by Lesley-Ann Noel
• Searching for a Black Aesthetic in American Graphic Design, Sylvia Harris, 1998
• Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook by Dori Tunstall
• Recognize a design anthology featuring Indigenous people and people of color
• Celebrating the African-American Practitioners Absent From Way Too Many Classroom Lectures by Madeleine Morley, Eye on Design, 2018
• The Lasting Mark of Black Creatives, Emotive Brand 2021
• Where are the Black Designers 2021: Designing and Organizing for Black Liberation 2021 Conference Day 1
• Where are the Black Designers? a volunteer-run, nonprofit design advocacy organization.
• The Black Experience in Graphic Design (1968/2020) Dorothy Jackson (Print – original)
• Black Designers: Missing in Action Dr. Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller 1987 
• Why is Graphic Design 93% White? Dr. Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller 1991
• Black Designers: Still Missing in Action? Dr. Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller 2016
• Design Gets More Diverse by Alice Rawsthorn, NYTimes, 2011
• Where Are The Black Designers? Video presented by Maurice Cherry 2015

Week 10 Homework Checklist

Below are all of the tasks, big and small, for this week. The due date is Wednesday, 11:59 pm before our next Thursday class. Timely completion of these tasks will contribute to your success in this course.

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out.

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