African American Women in Design

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AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN IN DESIGN The incredible black women who work in the design profession.

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To the young women who are artists but aren’t sure there is an art career for you To those in the industry who wish something like this existed when they were pursuing their careers

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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION

GRAPHIC DESIGN

UX/UI DESIGN

LEARN MORE

Introduction

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Design Definitions

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Examples of Design

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Definition/Introduction

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Tiffany Middleton

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Gail Anderson

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Sylvia Harris

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Jacinda Walker

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Definition/Introduction

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Tramaine Placide

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Julia Ayana Baltrip

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Michele Washington

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Design Spotlight

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Useful Resoources

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BLACK WOMEN IN DESIGN

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The incredible black women who work in the design profession.

Introduction

The purpose of this book in not to say one race and gender is more important over the other.

It is to show the accomplishments of a group of women who seem to be underrepresented when there is talk about design and designers.

This is a book designed for young African American women and their families to use to inform themselves on the basics of design. It can be both inspirational and educational for everyone that reads this publication.

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WHAT IS DESIGN?

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DESIGN verb

as a discipline: plan the creation of a product or service with the intention of improving human experience with respect to a specified problem. verb

Do or plan (something) with a specific purpose in mind

noun

the art or action of conceiving of and producing a plan or drawing.

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There are many different definitions for design. Here are some of them:

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Different Type of Design Just like there are many different definitions for design, there are different types of design.

Here are some possible design careers with their basic definitions.

Graphic Designer These professionals create designs for marketing collateral, product illustrations, brand identities and websites using computer software. They merge technical skill with artistic ability to create a design that communicates with its desired audience.

Graphic designers may work independently as freelancers or contractors, in an in-house setting for a company or in an agency setting.

UX Designer UX designers make websites, mobile applications, software or video games easier to navigate and more intuitive for users to interact with. They study and evaluate how people feel about a particular system and design their product to cater to the needs of the user. They also analyze the specific components of the system such as usefulness, value, credibility and accessibility.

Multimedia Artist & Animator These professionals create animations and special effects for movies, television, video games and other forms of media—both two-dimensional and threedimensional. They work with teams of animators and artists to bring ideas to life using computer software or by writing their own computer code. Some work in studios or offices, but many are self-employed and work from home.

Advertising Professionals in these positions often work in agencies to organize campaigns for clients. They may

also be responsible for selling advertising space or time for media firms. They work with sales staff to develop concepts for campaigns, partner with creative teams to produce layouts, negotiate contracts and prepare overall campaign budgets.

Film & Video Film and video editors use technical software to construct promotional or artistic productions from footage shot by camera operators. Editors work with directors and producers to determine which material is most captivating for their audience and piece together scenes. The editing process involves trimming footage down into segments, marking frames for audio and organizing raw footage into a seamless and polished final product.

Art Director Art directors work in a variety of settings such as magazines, newspapers, internet-based publications and advertising or public relations agencies.

They communicate with clients while overseeing project budgets and timelines. They manage a team of design professionals, reviewing and approving all creative materials before presenting to clients.

Photographer Photographers utilize their creativity and composition skills alongside their technical expertise to capture photographs that tell a story or document an event. The majority of today’s photographers work with digital cameras and editing software to capture subjects in commercial-quality images. Some travel

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This barely scratches the surface!! to a location to shoot an event or scenery, while others have their own studios for portraits, commercial shoots or artistic work.

Fashion Designer Professionals in this field design new clothing and accessories. Designs are sketched on paper and then colors, materials and textures of the final product are determined. Fashion designers study fashion trends by reviewing magazines and attending fashion shows. They then provide sample garments to sales representatives and agents in hopes of selling their own collections.

Interior Designer Professionals in this occupation work with interior spaces to improve the safety, functionality and aesthetic appeal of the area. They select color schemes, furniture, flooring, lighting and all other elements of a room or building. Interior designers also sketch their ideas or use design software to communicate their plans with the architects, structural engineers and builders who bring their designs to life.

More Options Design Researcher Industrial Designer Game Designer

This Project For the purpose of this project, I am going to focus mainly on Visual/Graphic Design, UX/ UI design. However, other design fields will be mentioned to show all of the possibilities.

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According to AIGA:

Graphic design is defined as the “art and practice of planning and projecting ideas and experiences with visual and textual content. The form it takes can be physical or virtual and can include images, words, or graphics.”

When you think of graphic design, do you think of artistic advertisements? Eye-grabbing graphics on websites? Stunningly arranged spreads in magazines? While these are all examples of graphic design, the term encompasses a lot ; posters, infographics, book covers, product labels, logos, business cards, signs, website layouts, mobile apps, software interfaces—the list goes on.

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GRAPHIC

Most Common Graphic Design Possibilities • Graphic designer • Web designer • Art director • Visual designer • User experience (UX designer) • Graphic artist

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It can be more accommodating to the underrepresented population just by allowing them to be exposed to it.

—Tiffany Middleton

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Tiffany Middleton

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“I’d love to have more women and people of color in the industry”

Tiffany Middleton Digital Media Designer, Social Media Strategist, EPSN

Biography

I grew up in a small town in Alabama, and design was an unknown entity for me. Oddly, I always found myself admiring cover art and layouts in the magazine section of the local grocery stores. As faith would have it, the term “graphic design” was introduced to me by an article in Teen Vogue.

Years later, I graduated from Auburn University with a degree in graphic design. Which would take me from the field of Jordan-Hare Stadium to a little trading card company outside of Dallas, and finally to Bristol, Connecticut— home of ESPN.

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d n I’m from Childersburg, Alabama, a small town where sports are the only extracurricular activities for kids in the neighborhood. When people ask where I’m from, I have to ask them if they know the basketball player Gerald Wallace, because he’s our town’s claim to fame.

I spent most of my childhood playing basketball, which is where my love of sports came from. I volunteered to design our class shirts and produced my senior class video.

Top Social graphic to celebrate Serena’s 23rd grand slam victory.

Bottom Logo for her social handle and blog, Trenches

Biography and Images www.invisionapp.com/inside-design/ espn-designer-tiffany-middleton/ Blog https://trenches.online Twitter @trenches_ Portfolio https://tiffanymiddleton.com

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The King City Illustrator Ryan Simpson Designer Tiffany Middleton Art Director Luke Knox Creative Director Chin Wang Editorial Matthew Wong, Adam Reisinger, Christina Daglas Running Through the Six With Your Foes Concept There was no secret that LeBron James might leave Cleveland after a disappointing lost to the Warriors once again. Our team developed an idea to commission 30 artist located in each NBA city to design a billboard that would convince the King to leave his kingdom. My role was to help find each artist, design the interface and develop it.

Illustrator: Glenn Harvey Designer: Tiffany Middleton Art Director: Luke Knox Creative Director: Chin Wang Editorial: Matthew Wong, Adam Reisinger, Christina Daglas

It’s Showtime Illustrator Jack Perkins Designer Tiffany Middleton Art Director Luke Knox Creative Director Chin Wang Editorial Matthew Wong, Adam Reisinger, Christina Daglas

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Her Work

Over the years, I’ve produced a wide variety of work—social content, some recruiting material targeted towards high school teenagers, and I even had the opportunity to work on printed products for a professional trading card company.

Working on social platforms is my favorite because it can communicate your message to millions of people with a click of a button.

My proudest accomplishment isn’t any design that I’ve executed, but my social handle and blog, Trenches.

I started it a few years back to provide an online source for designers and creatives interested in the sports industry. I’d see beautiful designs on social media and in person and wonder who was responsible. Trenches provides a place for those designers to come out of hiding from their cubicles and connect with others in the industry. I connected with

my current creative director after he followed the account on Twitter. It’s connected me with designers from Nike, NBA, NFL, The New York Times, Snapchat, Wired, and much more. It’s my claim to fame.

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“Personally, it never hurts seeing someone who looks and speaks like you.”

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Gail Anderson Designer, Writer, and Educator

Biography

Gail Anderson is a New York-based designer, writer, and educator. She is a partner, with Joe Newton, at Anderson Newton Design.

From 2002 through 2010, she ser ved as Creative Director of Design at SpotCo, a New York City advertising agency that creates artwork for Broadway and institutional theater. From 1987 to early 2002, she worked at Rolling Stone magazine, serving as designer, deputy art director, and finally, as the magazine’s senior art director. And early in her career, Gail was a designer at The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine and Vintage Books (Random House).

Anderson’s work has received awards from major design organizations, including the Society of Publication Designers, the Type Directors Club, The American Institute of Graphic Arts, The Art Directors Club, Graphis, Communication Arts, and Print. In addition, it has also been included in the permanent collections of the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, the Library of Congress, and the Milton Glaser Design Archives at the School of Visual Arts.

Anderson has been featured in magazines that include Computer Arts (UK), designNET (Korea), kAk (Russia), STEP Inside Design, and Graphic Design USA.

Top SpotCo Broadway theater poster for Man of La Mancha, 2002 Bottom SpotCo Guthrie theater poster for Peer Gynt, 2007

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This is Gail Anderson’s table at Cooper Hewitt Teen Design Fest

“When I hear of other black designers I’m happy that they’re out there, just doing good work like everyone else.”

—Gail Anderson

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Gail Anderson is co-author, with Steven Heller, of the upcoming The Typographic Universe, as well as New Modernist Type, New Ornamental Ty p e , N e w Vi n t a g e Ty p e , A s t o u n d i n g Photoshop Effects, American Typeplay, The Savage Mirror, and Graphic Wit. She is a contributor to Imprint and Uppercase magazine.

Anderson teaches in the School of Visual Arts MFA, undergraduate, and high school design programs, and has served on the advisory boards for Adobe Partners by Design and the Society of Publication Designers. She currently serves on the board for the Type Directors Club, and is a member of the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee for the US Postal Service.

Anderson is the recipient of the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Medal from the AIGA, the 2009 Richard Gangel art direction award from the Society of Illustrators, and has lectured about design (and her bottle cap collection)

at organizations and conferences around the world. One of her most recent talks was at Hue Design Summit in Atlanta, Georgia.

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12 books Anderson coauthored with design historian Steven Heller.

Her Work

For over 14 years, she worked with the illustrious and dear Fred Woodward at Rolling Stone, where she served as Designer, Deputy Art Director, and finally, Senior Art Director.

She arrived in the fall of 1987 to work at an enormous drafting table with a Mayline and triangle, and left in the spring of 2002, nearsighted from spending so much time in front of a computer. Almost everything she knows and loves about typography and illustration is the result of those 14 years with Fred (and before him, Lynn Staley, Ronn Campisi, and Lucy Bartholomay at The Boston Globe).

New Vintage Type: Classic Fonts for the Digital Age

From 2002 though 2010, she ser ved as Creative Director of Design at SpotCo, a NYCbased advertising agency that focuses on the

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entertainment industry. She worked under the leadership of Drew Hodges, SpotCo’s president, and my classmate from the School of Visual Arts. The following pieces were created in her tenure, and most of the credit for their success goes to the wonderful team of designers she had the pleasure of collaborating with.

They included: Darren Cox, Nicky Lindeman, Bashan Aquar t , Amanda Spielman, Jeff Rogers, Jessica Disbrow, Sam Eckersley, and Frank Gargiulo. SpotCo clients included Roundabout Theatre Company, New York’s leading not-for-profit theatrical institution, and winner of 25 Tony Awards. Manhattan Theatre Club is one of New York’s largest not-for-profit theatrical institutions, with both Broadway and off Broadway productions, and is a longtime SpotCo client. While at SpotCo, her department also designed several seasons of shows for the lovely folks at Minneapolis’ famed Guthrie Theater.

Rolling Stone Magazine Spreads

Biography and Images www.gailycurl.com More Info www.printmag.com/imprint/ gail-andersons-path-to-design/ creativepro.com/ the-creative-world-of-gail-anderson/

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Designed with Fred Woodward; Photograph by David LaChapelle

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Biography

Antionette Carroll

Antionette D. Carroll is the Founder, President and CEO of Creative Reaction Lab, a nonprofit educating, training, and challenging Black and Latinx youth to become leaders designing healthy and racially equitable communities. Within this capacity, Antionette has pioneered a new, award-winning form of creative problem solving called EquityCentered Community Design - named a Fast Company World Changing Idea Finalist in General Excellence and Urban Design. (Since launching in March 2018, thousands have downloaded and/or purchased the supplemental Equity-Centered Community Design Field Guide: http://www.creativereactionlab. com/eccd-field-guide.) Through this capacity, Antionette has received several recognitions including being named a GDUSA Person to Watch, Echoing Green Global Fellow, TED Fellow, Essence Magazine’s Woke 100, Next City Vanguard, Camelback Ventures Fellow, and St. Louis Visionary Awards Community Impact Honoree.

Throughout her career, Antionette has worked for non-profits working for social justice, human rights, diversity, equity, and inclusion as a communications specialist. Prior to Creative Reaction Lab, Antionette was the Head of Communications for Diversity Awareness Partnership, a Saint Louis based nonprofit that works to increase awareness, facilitate engagement and provide education

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about diversity and inclusion. Within this role, she led the nonprofit’s graphic design, advertising, fundraising, and communications efforts. Two of her major projects included (1) co-designing, with the Head of Education and Training, Diversity Awareness Partnership’s Professional Development Seminar Series around diversity and inclusion topics for DEI and HR professionals and (2) designing and launching the citywide “Listen. Talk. Learn.” public awareness campaign in response the unrest in Ferguson. With the organizational staff, she also co-created the community-wide “Listen. Talk. Learn.” training program. This experience, amongst others, led to her current work as a social entrepreneur, nonprofit leader, and design activist.

In 2014, Antionette was named the Founding Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Task Force of AIGA, the professional association of design. Notably, within her role, she: (1) Grew the task force to 22 members representing 12 states; (2) Pitched and created the full-time, in-house Diversity and Inclusion Residency; (3) Conducted the first staff diversity training in AIGA’s 102-year history; (4) Restarted the Design Journeys archive highlighting prominent designers of color throughout design history; and, (5) Co-planned, and presented at, the Diversity and Inclusion Mini-Summit, training over 250 chapter leaders on the role of diversity and inclusion within design.

Additionally, with her encouragement, AIGA created the first Racial Justice by Design program, with Antionette co-organizing and

assuming the role of online producer for the national Town Hall in 2016. Currently, she’s an AIGA National Board Director and Chair Emerita of the Task Force working on longterm strategic initiatives such as the Design Census Program with Google and national Design for Inclusivity Summit with Microsoft.

She’s the co-founder of the Design + Diversity Conference and Fellowship. Antionette also sits on several awards and programming committees for local and national non-profits, including the steering committee for Adobe’s World Interaction Design Day, Sappi Ideas That Matter, Fast Company ’s World Changing Ideas, Great Rivers Greenway ’s Chouteau Greenway Design Competition, City of St. Louis’ Resiliency Office (supported

by Rockefeller Foundation) and formerly the founding anti-bias/anti-racism committee for City Garden Montessori School.

Antionette also is an international speaker and facilitator, previously speaking at TED, School of Visual Arts, Facebook , Capital One, Harvard, Stanford University, Microsoft, NASA, TEDxHerndon and TEDxGatewayArch, AIGA National Conference, The Ohio State University, and more.

Website antionettecarroll.design/ Instagram @antionettecarroll Twitter @acarrolldesign LinkedIn antionettecarroll

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Biography

“My name is Nitashia Johnson I graduated from Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in 2008 and went on to become 2012 alumnus of Texas Woman’s University with a BFA in Design Communication. I am also a first round Sony Alpha Female Creator-in-Residence.

Nitashia Johnson

I am an independent designer and photographer who loves to collaborate with fellow artists. I have an unwavering passion for design and photography. I’m an alumnus of the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) in Art + Design Education program at the Rhode Island School of Design. I’m currently working as a full time graphic designer and portrait photographer. I’m developing a community-based media arts program for high creative school teens. I use my talents to make others happy, to me that is what life is all about.”

Website nitashiajohnson.com Instagram @nitashiajohnson @theselfpublication Twitter @nitashiajohnson

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Sylvia Harris Designer, Creative Director, Strategy Director

Biography

Harris’ journey began in her hometown of Richmond, Virginia. As a young black woman in the South during the 1960s, she experienced desegregation firsthand and, in the process, gained a visceral understanding of how social systems affect people’s daily lives. She cultivated an interest in design while studying with AIGA Medalist Philip B. Meggs at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she received a B.F.A. in 1975. A move to Boston to work with architects and in broadcast media was formative in opening her eyes to the depth and diversity of graphic design practice. At the WGBH design department, Chris Pullman,

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another AIGA Medalist, became a mentor and catalyst for her enrollment in the master’s program in graphic design at Yale University.

Right after graduating from Yale, in 1980, Harris cofounded Two Twelve Associates with classmates Juanita Dugdale and myself. While dealing with the challenges of building a new design practice, she honed the skills and interests that would ultimately propel her career.

As the projects became larger and more complex, she relentlessly explored how to use all of the tools in a designer ’s tool kit to create comprehensive public information systems.

Her groundbreaking work in digital consumer banking systems for Citibank, in 1989, set an early standard for human-centered automated customer service.

At Sylvia Harris LLC, which she established in 1994 after leaving Two Twelve, she shifted her focus to design planning and strategy. In the process, she guided some of the nation’s largest hospitals, universities and civic agencies through systems planning, policy development and innovation management. As creative director for the United States Census Bureau, Census 2000, she was tasked with encouraging more Americans—including those who had been previously under-represented—to participate. Distributed to 80 million households, the 2000 Census presented an opportunity to study how a redesigned form might boost participation as well as public awareness of the Census brand.

Top Voting by Design Poster, 2003 Bottom US Census 2000 branding abd user-centered form design, 1998

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Harris was a woman of great energy, passion and intelligence. She nurtured these qualities by reaching out beyond the walls of her studio.

She had a remarkable ability to draw smart, talented young people into her network, making them collaborators and friends. And she generously gave back to the design community that she so vibrantly inhabited for more than three decades, mentoring students as a faculty member of Yale’s graphic design program and as a teacher at the School of Visual Arts, Cooper Union and Purchase College.

She also served on the U.S. Postal Service’s Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee.

As a designer and a woman, Sylvia Harris always wanted to do the right thing, the smart thing, the thing that would make the biggest difference to the most people. She was the model citizen—a Citizen Designer.

Biography and Images https://www.aiga.org/medalist-sylvia-harris/

IN MEMORIAM Sylvia Harris passed away in 2011. Her life, legacy and talents live on through all those who have met her and who have been inspired by the work she has done.

Citibank ATM interaction design (1989) Design Firm: Sylvia Harris, LLC Creative Director: Sylvia Harris

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Organization designexplorr.com Instagram @designexplorr Twitter @designExplorr LinkedIn jacinda-walker-aa4a4b22

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Biography

A designer, entrepreneur and instructor with over 20 years of industry experience, who calls Cleveland, Ohio home. Her work ranges from designing publications to educational programming and event management. A graduate of Cleveland Heights High School, Ms. Walker continued to earn both her Associates of Applied Business in Commercial Art. and Bachelors of Fine Arts in graphic design with minors in drawing and computer imaging from the University of Akron. In August 2016, she obtained her M.F.A. in Design Research & Development with a minor in Nonprofit Studies from The Ohio State University. Her area of focus explored diversity in design disciplines and investigates effective strategies to expose African-American and Latino youth to design-related careers. Jacinda is a strong advocate for young people and proudly mentors several design students on portfolio presentations, professional development and career planning. Ms. Walker’s future goals are to work in a museum with design education initiatives and developing design programs for underrepresented youth.

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designExplorr Business Cards You can get one when you meet her. She always have them with her.

Design Learning Challenge Jacinda Walker at Design Learning Challenge. It is an interactive design workshop where students and designers work together to create solutions.

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Her Work

DesignExplorr is an education organization that celebrates design by offering activities, consulting services and resources to expose underrepresented youth to design careers.

This organization stems from Design Journeys: Strategies for Increasing Diversity in Design Disciplines (2016), by Jacinda Walker which explores diversity in design disciplines and presents fifteen strategic ideas to expose African American and Latino youth to designrelated careers.

Jacinda also speaks at many conferences and engagements, such as SF Design Week, IBM Ask, and numerous schools, colleges, and universities. She also hosts and presents at different workshops in various parts of the world—Ohio, Minnesota, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and more. She also volunteers with AIGA and serves as a chair on their Diversity and Inclusion Task Force.

She is available for a phone call, consultation, video conference call, and an in-person meeting via an appointment. She is willing to help when and how she can. You can be a mentee of hers too, just have to add yourself to her list.

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UX Design refers to the term User Experience Design, while UI Design stands for User Interface Design. Both elements are crucial to a product and work closely together. But despite their professional relationship, the roles themselves are quite different, referring to very different parts of the process and the design discipline. Where UX Design is a more analytical and technical field, UI Design is closer to what we refer to as graphic design, though the responsibilities are somewhat more complex.

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Prototyping Web Developer Mobile Developer Coding Interface Design

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Tramaine Placide UX/UI Designer

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Biography

“I’d love to have more women and people of color in the industry”

Senior UI / UX Designer, currently working at IBM in Atlanta, Georgia, who thrives off of creative exploration and collaboration.

Researched, prototyped, and designed for multiple digital experiences in a variety of industries, including e-commerce, utilities, and technology. She is always interested in new challenges and opportunities to implement new ideas.

Techical Skills: Sketch InVision Photoshop Illustrator XD InDesign iOS Android CSS HTML JavaScript

Portfolio http://www.tplacide.com

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Signifyin’ Works | DVD Screen Menus and DVD Packaging

Crowded Fire Theater | Posters + Postcards

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Julia Ayana Baltrip User Experience Art Direction Project Management Graphic Design: Interactive and Print Photography Lecturer

Biography

Julia Ayana Baltrip holds an M.A. in Design from San Francisco State University, and is an award winning graphic designer and educator. She is owner and creative director of design: speak, a design consultant business, that focuses on providing user experience, interactive and print design services for non-profits, women-owned and small businesses. She has been published in Print Magazine. “My passion is the work I do in the service of the voices struggling to be heard in the realms of social justice.”

Through her company, design: speak , she provides a variety of services including art direction, interactive media design, graphic design, and photography to businesses, non-profits, corporations and government agencies. She especially focus on womenowned businesses.

Innovative concept, creative art direction, tothe-point project management and the ability to put together solid teams enables her to successfully meets her clients’ visual communication objectives. She make it her point to create solutions suitable for your company ’s image, message, and market.

Biography and Images http://designspeak.com/index.html Twitter @ayanabaltrip More Info http://design.sfsu.edu/people/faculty/ julia-baltrip/

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Michele Washington Designer, Design Writer, UX Researcher, Educator

Biography

A designer, design writer and educator with a national reputation for bringing the work of black, African and African Caribbean into mainstream design consciousness. She maintains a design consultancy, office of Michele Washington that focuses on branding strategy, design and cross-cultural research. Her research explores the significance of natural hair in black culture; the use of social media to facilitate global dialogue between women about natural hair; cross-cultural interaction between users and products; the impact of research in architecture, urbanism, fashion, and visual and material culture on emerging global communities.

Previously she worked as a designer and art director, for such publications as The Chicago Tribune; The New York Times; Business Monthly, Essence, and Self. Michele loves engaging the students she teaches in the Graduate E xhibition Program at Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City to investigate their inherent global environments.

She has served on the board of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), New York chapter, and currently serves on the advisory board of XCD Cross-Cultural Community, the AIGA Design Journey. Michele’s writings have appeared in Print Magazine, Studio Museum in Harlem blog, and the International Review of African American Art. Additionally, will be an upcoming blogger for New York Spaces

Website culturalboundaries.com Instagram @culturalboundaries Twitter @culturalboundar

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The reasons there are so few blacks in the design field are complex and frustrating. But much can be done to change the situation—to the benefit of the field and the society it serves.

—Cheryl D Miller

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DIVERSITY IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT BRINGS DIFFERENT IDEAS TO THE TABLE AND PROVIDES A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE TO DESIGN.

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About the non profit organization.

Inneract Project (IP) serves primarily middle and high school youth who identify as Black, Latinx and/or of low-income backgrounds.

A professionally-supported organization, IP offers a pathway of free design classes and initiatives, in order to introduce youth to the field of design and help channel their creativity into viable career paths. For Over 15 years, they have been developing our program ecosystem to bring Black and Brown youth from middle school to a career in design.

A movement for creative education and equity, our programs and initiatives are within a holistic pathway and include: academies, learning labs, design-a-thon, and studio courses. They believe that by developing pathways to the field of design and providing professional mentorship, they can boost student success, ultimately leading to an increase in diversity in design and technology. To achieve this, they engage practicing designers and other professionals to teach students about their respective disciplines.

Their theor y of change is to (1) provide nationwide classes with hands-on learning exercises to teach design, collaboration and critical thinking skills, (2) partner with design professionals, schools, community groups,

companies and stakeholders in design and technology, (3) support multi-stakeholder networks and existing advocates to influence diversity practices and strategies, (4) share statistics and diversity approaches through research and communications, and (5) help provide access to educational and work opportunities for racially and economically diverse communities, then IP and its partners can substantially contribute to an increase in diversity in the fields of design and technology, which will create a better representation of ideas in new and existing businesses.

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inneract project

Website inneractproject.org Facebook facebook.com/inneractproject Instagram @inneractproject Twitter @InneractProject

Inneract Project empowers underrepresented youth through design education and links them to opportunities to explore design in career and life.

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Groups

African-American Graphic Designers (facebook) Bay Area Black Designers (meetup) Organizations

designExplorr inneract project Websites

peopleofcraft.com womentalkdesign.com womenwho.design 28blacks.com rcasseus.com/creativesofcolor Conferences

AfroTech

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This has been a discussion for many years. As a result, there have been many groups, websites, and organizations to help find solutions to the problem at hand.

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Designed by Daviel Byrd Body Copy: Acumin Pro Light 9/11 Headlines: Acumin Pro Bold Quotes: Acumin Pro Extra Condensed Black COPYRIGHT © 2020 BY DAVIEL BYRD

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