Guest Moderator | Made in the Future Summit
Made In the Future is a career-building design program that provides an immersive foundational curriculum, community support network and access to preeminent industry mentorship for aspiring underrepresented designers.
Austin Design Week: More than Elevating Voices: Changing Power Structures Within Design
NOVEMBER 10, 2020, 5:00PM - 6:00PMHow does one become a designer? What about growth within your practice? Join AIGA Austin to explore how education, professional networks and hiring practices perpetuate an exclusive and inequitable design industry—and what we can do about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9RjufBaW-E
The State of Black Design
The State of Black Designis a two-hour virtual discussion, hosted by Texas State University's Communication Design program. This event will feature prominent Black Design Practitioners and Academics. This open conversation will be segmented into four focused panels, Industry, Pedagogy, Black Design Organizations, and Design Activism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu0N__aBlbM The topics of discussion will include but will not be limited
Language, Symbolism And The Toxicity Of Trump’s Rose Garden Address.
On June 1, 2020, the 45th President of the United States addressed a nation ignited by outrage. George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man suspected of passing a counterfeit $20 bill, died in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, pressed his knee to Floyd's neck for almost nine minutes. Several bystanders took videos of
Pivot 2020 | Tulane University Presentation
This research will utilize archives of images from the Jim Crow south, to better understand the western creation of racist motifs. Trends and icons will be documented in order to draw comparative analysis between past symbols and those used in current advertisements. Through visual narratives from the Jim Crow era, this research explores how past
Passive, Brutish, or Civil? Racist Motifs in Every Day Branding.
Souza, O. A. (2020). Passive, Brutish, or Civil? Racist Motifs in Every Day Branding. MESSAGE 4: Graphic Communication Design Research. Accepted / In Press.
