Audrey G. Bennett

Bennett, Audrey. Design: A Quick Immersion (NYC/Barcelona: Tibidabo Publishing, Inc., 2026). 236 pages.

monograph

Eglash, Ron, and Audrey G. Bennett. 2026. “African Interlace as Dynamic Grids: New Heritage Algorithms for Diaspora Design Ecologies.” Design and Culture, January, 1–22. doi:10.1080/17547075.2025.2591967.

journal article

Lutzky, Raymond, and Suraj Bhatia. Shaping the human experience: Design of digital and physical spaces. S.l.: KENDALL HUNT PUBLISHING C, 2025.

"Shaping the Human Experience…brilliantly weaves together insights from architecture, UX design, and human-centered research to create a unified framework for understanding how we shape—and are shaped by—the spaces we inhabit. As a design scholar, I appreciate the book's pedagogical approach to research methodologies. The authors' mantra that 'all feedback is a gift' and their discussion of mixed-methods research provide students with both theoretical grounding and practical tools. The emphasis on empathy, cultural context, and ethical research practices aligns with contemporary calls to diversify and decolonize design education and develop more inclusive pedagogy." —Audrey G. Bennett

endorsement

Bennett, Audrey, Jennifer Vokoun, and Ron Eglash. “Towards a Wicked Solution to Food Insecurity: An Ethnographic Study of Food Design Outcomes at the 2024 eFood Conference in Barcelona.” Peer-reviewed poster presentation delivered at Fork’s eFOOD 2024, Elisava, Spain, November 7, 2024.

poster presentation

Bennett, Audrey, Nicholas La Marca, and Caitlin Dyche. 2024. "Broadening Participation in the Museum Experience Through Interactive Aesthetics: Enabling Access to Pluripositionality in the Inclusive Co-Creation and Dissemination of Audio Descriptions." The International Journal of the Inclusive Museum 17 (2): 217-233. doi:10.18848/1835-2014/CGP/v17i02/217-233.

journal article

Bennett, Audrey. “Freedom Notice: A Visual essay on the potential use of the visual essay convention to disseminate new knowledge to lay communities.” In Collective Inquiry Into the Visual Essay: AIGA Design Educators Community 2022 Design + Writing Fellowship. Ann Arbor, MI: Dialogue: Proceedings of the AIGA Design Educators Community Conferences, 2022, edited by Rebecca Tegtmeyer and Liese Zahabi, 9-17. University of Michigan Press. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.14495980. PDF.

visual essay

Bennett, Audrey. “Designing multimodal technical instructions for cross-cultural resonance using a culturally inclusive approach.” In Technical Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 6, edited by Kirk St. Amant and Pavel Zemliansky, 289-305. Parlor Press; The WAC Clearinghouse.

textbook chapter

Garvin, Matthew, Ron Eglash, Kwame Porter Robinson, Lionel Robert, Mark Guzdial, and Audrey Bennett. "Counter-hegemonic AI: The role of artisanal identity in the design of automation for a liberated economy." In AI and the Future of Creative Work, pp. 71-88. Routledge, 2023.

chapter

“A Career is a Promise: Finding Purpose, Fulfillment, and Success levels the playing field by providing a road map to the realization of a career. From setting realistic goals and mitigating rejection to navigating the bumpy road to cultural competence, this book guides you through an interactive process of self-discovery and goal-generating activities as you prepare to enter the job market. It is a must-read for young multidisciplinary professionals starting or changing careers.” —Audrey G. Bennett

endorsement

Eglash, Ron, Audrey Bennett, Lionel Robert, Kwame Porter Robinson, Matthew Garvin, and Mark Guzdial. “Decolonization, Computation, Propagation: Phyto-human alliances in the pathways towards generative justice.” In Plants By Numbers: Art, Computation, and Queer Feminist Technoscience, edited by Jane Prophet and Helen V. Pritchard, 141-159. NY: Bloomsbury, 2023.

chapter

Bennett, Audrey, and Ron Eglash. “How ‘heritage algorithms’ are shaping the future of art and design.” Fast Company (NYC), Aug 17, 2023.

op-ed

Bennett, Audrey, and Ron Eglash. “Heritage Algorithms Combine the Rigors of Science with the Infinite Possibilities of Art and Design.” The Conversation (Waltham, MA), Aug 10, 2023.

op-ed

Bennett, Audrey, and Jennifer Vokoun. Critical Mapping for Sustainable Food Design: Food Security, Equity, and Justice (NY: Routledge, 2023). 264 pages.

monograph

Eglash, Ron, and Audrey Bennett. “Anti-racism for Freethinkers: Cultivating a Mindset for Curiosity and Scientific Inquiry in the Context of Racial Equity and Social Justice.” TechTrends 67, no. 4 (2023): 456–466. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-022-00815-9.

journal article

Bennett, Audrey. “What if design scholars created a new form, the public research notice, that made public understanding as significant as scholarly findings?.” A Visual Essay Poster Exhibition of the 2022 AIGA DEC Design and Writing Fellowship, Surface: AIGA National Design Conference, Seattle, Washington, Oct 20-22, 2022.

graphic art

“Finally, a book highlighting typography's role in iconic social movements throughout the nation's history. Strikethrough is a storytelling tour de force composed of well-crafted prose married to poignant images that take us on a powerful, historical journey from the printed page into the streets. This book allows us to witness type oft-overlooked in design's history, that of diverse lay and professional designers relying on the transformative power of vernacular type to demand liberation and to galvanize action that leads to equity and justice. In doing so, it contributes heartily to decolonizing typography's canon.” —Audrey Bennett

endorsement

Bennett, Audrey. “The Difference it Makes Who is Speaking: An Autoethnography of Minor Literature in Graphic Design at the Yale School of Art.” In After the Bauhaus, Before the Internet: A History of Graphic Design Pedagogy, edited by Geoff Kaplan, 247-258. New York: MIT Press, 2022.

chapter

Comment received:

“I loved that you referenced A Minor Literature in your talk/essay. I referenced it in a different way in a talk I gave in 2014 at CalArts entitled “Is Graphic Design a Minor Art?” Some of what brought me into graphic design was this possible joy of being minor, making trouble in the background as some kind of errant translator. I know that sounds crazy now, after being so much more public than I ever expected to be, and, well, everything that’s happened in graphic design.” —Juliette Cezzar

Bennett, Audrey. “Follow the Golden Ratio from Africa to the Bauhaus for a Cross-Cultural Aesthetic for Images.” In The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Expression, and Reflection, edited by Anne Berry, Kareem Collie, Penina Acayo Laker, Lesley-Ann Noel, Jennifer Rittner, and Kelly Walters, 182-203. New York: Allworth Press, 2022.

chapter

Write-ups, press, awards, recognition for edited collection:

AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers 2022 (Category: Book and Cover), Nonobvious Book Awards, Fast Company, The Best Design Books of 2022, Society of Typographic Arts, 100 competition, AIGA National Conference Mainstage, Steven Heller review, PAGE Magazine, VCU, Architect Magazine, Instagram Design, UX Magazine, Godfrey Dadich Partners, Shaping Design write-up, IBM Racial Equity in Design Podcast (feat. Kareem Collie): It’s about time we see design through a new lens; Reprinted excerpts: Eye on Design, Fast Company, Design Observer, Design Observer, Design Observer.

Smith, Angela D.R., Adriana Alvarado Garcia, Ian Arawjo, Audrey Bennett, Khalia Braswell, Bryan Dosono, Ron Eglash, Denae Ford, Daniel Gardner, Shamika Goddard, Jaye Nias, Cale Passmore, Yolanda Rankin, Naba Rizvi, Carol F Scott, Jakita Thomas, Alexandra To, Ihudiya Finda Ogbonnaya-Ogburu, Marisol Wong-Villacres. “Keepin’ it real about race in HCI.” Interactions 28, no. 5 (2021): 28-33.

journal article

Bennett, Audrey. “Agentic Design: An Emergent Approach to Generative Justice.” New Design Ideas: Special Issue on Generative Justice in Design 5, no.1 (2021): 5-20.

journal article and special issue (The latter is edited by Audrey Bennett and Ron Eglash.)

Bennett, Audrey. “The Golden Ratio, a supposed Greek invention, may have African roots.” Fast Company (NYC). March 19, 2021.

op-ed

Bennett, Audrey. “The African Roots of Swiss Design.” The Conversation (Waltham, MA), Mar 16, 2021.

op-ed

Impact/Reprints/Related publications

>93,000 reads from simultaneous publications in:

Michigan Research: Research news from the University of Michigan, U-M VP for Research Office, e-Newsletter, April 2021. Readership: 115, 000

Fast Company, March 19, 2021, Readership: 3 Million

Yahoo News!, March 16, 2021

Albany Times Union, March 16, 2021

The Wire, March 17, 2021

New Haven Register, March 16, 2021

Yahoo!Money, March 16, 2021

Eglash, Ron, Audrey Bennett, Michael Lachney, and William Babbitt. “Evolving Systems for Generative Justice: Decolonial Approaches to the Cosmolocal.” In Cosmo-local Reader, edited by José Ramos, Michel Bauwens, Sharon Ede, and James Gien Wong, 60-76. Futures Lab, 2021.

chapter

“I am thrilled to find work that allows me to triangulate between my roots as a Black designer, the academic world of cross-disciplinary scholarship, and vernacular aesthetic activism—all while mapping out a new vision for technocultural futures.” —Audrey G. Bennett, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor and Professor of Art and Design, Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design, University of Michigan

endorsement

Eglash, Ron, Audrey Bennett, Laquana Cooke, William Babbitt, Michael Lachney. “Counter-hegemonic computing: Toward computer science education for value generation and emancipation.” ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE) 21, no. 4 (2021): 1-30.

journal article

Lachney, Michael, Ron Eglash, Audrey Bennett, William Babbitt, Lakisha Foy, Matt Drazin, and Kathryn M. Rich. "pH empowered: community participation in culturally responsive computing education." Learning, Media and Technology 46, no. 3 (2021): 333-354.

journal article

Bennett, Audrey, Ron Eglash, Roland Graf, Deepa Butoyila, Keesa Johnson, Jenn Low, and Andréia Rocha. (2021). “Towards Radical Synergy for More Just & Equitable Futures.” In Learn X Design 2021: Engaging with challenges in design education, edited by Erik Bohemia, Liv Merete Nielsen, Lusheng Pan, Naz AGZ Börekçi, and Yang Zhang, 338-357 Jinan, China: Shandong University of Art & Design, 2021. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs_lxd2021.02.188.

visual essay

Bennett, Audrey. “These Nested Aphorisms” AIGA Get Out The Women’s Vote, a traveling exhibition of the AIGA’s Diversity + Inclusion Task Force and the League of Women Voters, 2020.

graphic art

Exhibition venues include:
Carnegie Mellon’s Institute for Contemporary Art (Pittsburgh, PA, Aug 22 - Nov 15, 2020

The Printing Museum (Houston, TX), Aug 27 - Nov 22, 2020

Chace Lobby, RISD Museum (Providence, RI), Oct 2020

Michigan State University’s Union Art Gallery (East Lansing, MI), Oct 9 - Nov 25, 2020

TheatreSquared with the University of Arkansas and AIGA Northwest Arkansas (Fayetteville, AR), Oct 2020

San Diego Design Week (SDSU School of Art + Design, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), Bread & Salt Gallery and Art Produce Gallery, Sep 9 - 13, 2020

Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, MD), Oct 2020

Stamps Gallery, U-M (Ann Arbor, MI), Sep 15 - Dec 4, 2020

Bennett, Audrey, and Ron Eglash. “On Cultural Cyborgs.” In Modified Living as a Cyborg, edited by Chris Hables Gray, Steven Mentor, and Heidi Figueroa Sarriera, 183-190. New York: Routledge, Oct 2020.

chapter

Bennett, Audrey. “Educating Citizen Designers In South Africa.” Image and Text 34, no. 1 (2020): 1-4.

book review

Bennett, Audrey, Fatima Cassim, Marguerite Botha. “How Design Can Use Generative Play to Innovate for Social Change: A Case Study on the Design of South African Children’s Health Education Toolkits.” International Journal of Design 11, no. 2 (2017): 57-72.

journal article

Eglash, Ron, William Babbitt, Audrey Bennett, Kathryn Bennett, Brian Callahan, James Davis, John Drazan, Charles Hathaway, David Hughes, Mukkai Krishnamoorthy, Michael Lachney, Michael Mascarenhas, Shayla Sawyer, and Kathleen Tully. “Culturally Situated Design Tools: Generative Justice as a Foundation for STEM Diversity.” In Moving Students of Color from Consumers to Producers of Technology, edited by Yolanda A. Ranking and Jakita O. Thomas, 132-151. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017.

chapter

Bennett, Audrey. “Ethnocomputational creativity in STEAM education: A cultural framework for generative justice.” Teknokultura, Journal of Digital Culture and Social Movements 13, no. 2 (2016): 587-612.

Related publications: 

Bennett, Audrey, and Ron Eglash. “How ‘heritage algorithms’ are shaping the future of art and design.” Fast Company (NYC), Aug 17, 2023.

Bennett, Audrey, and Ron Eglash. “Heritage Algorithms Combine the Rigors of Science with the Infinite Possibilities of Art and Design.” The Conversation (Waltham, MA), Aug 10, 2023.

Hauser & Wirth (LA). “The New Bend.” Gallery Exhibition. 28 Jan. - 8 May 2023.

Hauser & Wirth (UK). “The New Bend.” Gallery Exhibition. 26 Oct. - 30 Dec. 2022.

Hauser & Wirth (NYC). “The New Bend.” Gallery Exhibition. 2 Feb. - 2 Apr. 2022.

Bennett, Audrey, Ron Eglash, Michael Lachney, and William Babbitt. “Design Agency: Diversifying Computer Science at the Intersections of Creativity and Culture.” In Revolutionizing Education Through Web-based Instruction, edited by Mahesh Raisinghani, 35-56. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2016.

chapter

Bennett, Audrey. “Teaching image standards in a post-globalization age.” In Teaching and Training for Global Engineering: Perspectives on culture and professional communication practices, IEEE Press Series in Professional Engineering Communication, edited by Kirk St. Amant and M. Flammia, 47-68. NYC: John Wiley & Sons, 2016.

chapter

Bennett, Audrey. “Culturally-Appropriate Graphics.” In Developing Citizen Designers, edited by Elizabeth Resnick, 128-130. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, Feb 25, 2016.

chapter

Bennett, Audrey. 2015. “Connotative Localization of an HIV/AIDS Awareness and Prevention Image to Promote Safer Sex Practices in Ghana.” Visible Language 49, no. 1-2 (2015): 24-39.

journal article

“Teaching with the cornrows software is deeply satisfying to me because finally, I can integrate my rich Afro-Caribbean heritage into the mainstream pedagogy that I confer to students instead of always separating them and feeling like my culture is not relevant.” —Audrey Grace Bennett

contribution

Bennett, Audrey. “Introduction: A Wicked Solution to the Global Food Problem.” Iridescent: Icograda Journal of Design Research 2, no. 3 (2013): 2-10.

special issue (editor), chapter

Bennett, Audrey. “An Interactive Image.” In Designing for User Engagement on the Web: 10 Basic Principles, edited by Cheryl Geisler, 141-158. NY: Taylor and Francis, 2013.

Bennett, Audrey. “Create a Sense of Place.” In Designing for User Engagement on the Web: 10 Basic Principles, edited by Cheryl Geisler, 73-78. NY: Taylor and Francis, 2013.

Bennett, Audrey. “Plan to Continue the Engagement.” In Designing for User Engagement on the Web: 10 Basic Principles, edited by Cheryl Geisler, 79-84. NY: Taylor and Francis, 2013.

chapters

Bennett, Audrey. “China's Design Revolution, by Lorraine Justice.” Design and Culture 5, no. 2 (2013): 276-277.

book review

Bennett, Audrey. Engendering Interaction with Images. Bristol, UK: Intellect & University of Chicago Press, 2012.

“No longer passive spectators of images, these days we are more likely to be active participants in their production, distribution, and consumption. This raises important questions about the consequences...user interaction may have on meaning...and society at large.”

monograph

Bennett, Audrey. “Follow the Golden Ratio from Africa to the Bauhaus for a Cross-Cultural Aesthetic for Images.” Critical Interventions 9, no. 10 (2012): 11-23.

article

Related chapter: Bennett, A. 2022. “Follow the Golden Ratio from Africa to the Bauhaus for a Cross-Cultural Aesthetic for Images.” The Black Experience in Design, edited Anne Berry et al., NYC: Allworth Press & SVA.

Related digital publication: A. Bennett, “Follow the Golden Ratio from Africa to the Bauhaus for a Cross-Cultural Aesthetic for Images,” The Swiss Grid (remote learning tool for exhibition titled “The Swiss Grid”), Poster House, March 2021, https://posterhouse.org/blog/follow-the-golden-ratio-from-africa-to-the-bauhaus-for-a-cross-cultural-aesthetic-for-images/.

Related evidence-based op-ed: The African Roots of Swiss Design in The Conversation March 16, 2021, >93,000 reads from publications in:
- Michigan Research: Research news from the University of Michigan, U-M VP for Research Office, e-Newsletter, April 2021. Readership: 115, 000
- Fast Company, March 19, 2021, Readership: 3 Million
- Yahoo News!, March 16, 2021
- Albany Times Union, March 16, 2021
- The Wire, March 17, 2021
- New Haven Register, March 16, 2021
- Yahoo!Money, March 16, 2021

Bennett, Audrey. “Design Integrations: Research and Collaboration.” Design and Culture 3, no. 1 (2011): 123-125.

book review

Bennett, Audrey, and Omar Vulpinari, eds. Icograda Design Education Manifesto 2011. Italy: Icograda, 2011.

edited collection

Bennett, Audrey, Ron Eglash, and Mukkai Krishnamoorthy. “Virtual Design Studio: Facilitating online learning and communication between US and Kenyan participants.” In Culture, Communication, and Cyberspace: Rethinking Technical Communication for International Online Environments, edited by Kirk St. Amant and Filipp Sapienza, 185-206. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., 2010.

chapter

Bennett, Audrey. “Sticks and Stones: A Collaborative Exchange on Labeling and Stereotyping in Graphic Design.” Design and Culture 2, no. 3 (2010): 351-353.

Inaugural Media Review

Bennett, Audrey. “Do Good Design: How Designers Can Change the World.” Design and Culture 2, no. 3 (2010): 360-361.

book review

Bennett, Audrey. “Global Interaction in Design.” Visible Language 44, no. 2 (2010): 149-159.

special issue edited by Audrey G. Bennett

”In clear and precise prose, this collection of writings bridges communication theory with visual design practice. It should be a required reading for all graphic design students.” —Audrey G Bennett

endorsement

Bennett, Audrey, ed. Design Studies: Theory and Research in Graphic Design. NYC: Princeton Architectural Press (PAPress), 2006.

edited collection

This volume includes my introductory chapter: Bennett, Audrey. “The Rise of Research in Graphic Design.” In Design Studies: Theory and Research in Graphic Design, edited by Audrey Bennett, 14-23. NYC: Princeton Architectural Press, 2006.

This volume includes my interview: Bennett, Audrey. “Compartiendo Sueños/Sharing Dreams: An Interview with Toni O’Bryan.” In Design Studies: Theory and Research in Graphic Design, edited by Audrey Bennett, 291-297. NYC: Princeton Architectural Press, 2006.

This volume includes my co-authored article: Bennett, Audrey, Mukkai Krishnamoorthy, Ron Eglash, and Marie Rarieya. “Audience as Co-Designer: Participatory Design of HIV/AIDS Awareness and Prevention Posters in Kenya.” In Design Studies: Theory and Research in Graphic Design, edited by Audrey Bennett, 179-197. NYC: PAPress, 2006.

Eglash, Ron, Audrey Bennett, Casey O’Donnell, Sybillyn Jennings, and Margaret Cintorino. “Culturally Situated Design Tools: Ethnocomputing from Field Site to Classroom.” American Anthropologist 108, no. 2 (2006): 347-362.

journal article

AWARD: General Anthropology Division Award for Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship.

Bennett, Audrey. “For the Sake of Humanity: Teaching Cross-cultural Design with Empirical Inquiry.” In The Education of a Graphic Designer, edited by Steven Heller, 274-278. NY: Allworth, 2005.

chapter

Reid, Larry, Meta Reid, and Audrey Bennett. “Towards a Reader-Friendly Font: Rationale for Developing a Typeface That Is Friendly for Beginning Readers, Particularly Those Labeled Dyslexic.” Visible Language 38, no. 3 (2004): 246-59.

journal article

Bennett, Audrey. “The Black Aesthetic is Greater Than or Equal to Math Plus Culture.” Compartiendos Suenos (Sharing Dreams), an international traveling exhibition of the AIGA Center for Cross-Cultural Design and Centro Pablo de la Torriente Brau, La Habana, CUBA, 2004-2009.

graphic art

Bennett, Audrey. “Design Manifesto.” I Profess: The Graphic Design Manifesto (a national juried traveling exhibition), 2004-2008. Total entries: 107 (27 selected).

graphic art

Bennett, Audrey. 2002.. “Dynamic Interactive Aesthetics.” Journal of Design Research 2.2: 91-104. [published online September 4, 2017]

journal article

Bennett, Audrey. “Interactive aesthetics.” Design Issues 18, no. 3 (2002): 62-69.

Related non-refereed, conference proceedings publication: Steinhauer, A. “Transcending Space and Culture: Interactive Aesthetics that Facilitate Remote Participation in Graphic Design Processes.” Adjunct Proceedings of CoDesigning 2000, Design Research Society, Coventry, UK, Sept. 11-13, 2000. AWARD: Best Poster Paper.

journal article