RESOURCES

DESIGN STUDIES (from a Black perspective)

Barnett, Marlene. Crafted Kinship: Inside the Creative Practices of Contemporary Black Caribbean Makers. Artisan, 2024.

Benjamin, Ruha. “Race After Technology.” In Social Theory Re-Wired, edited by Wesley Longhofer and Daniel Winchester. Routledge, 2023. xx

Bennett, Audrey. “The African Roots of Swiss Design.” The Conversation, March 16, 2021. https://theconversation.com/the-african-roots-of-swiss-design-154892.

Bennett, Audrey. “Agentic Design: An Emergent Approach to Generative Justice.” In “Special Issue on Generative Justice.” Special issue, New Design Ideas, 5, no. 1 (2021): 5-20. https://doi.org/10.62476/ndi.si.520.

Bennett, Audrey G. and Jennifer A. Vokoun. Critical Mapping for Sustainable Food Design: Food Security, Equity, and Justice. Routledge, 2023.

Bennett, Audrey, ed. Design Studies: Theory and Research in Graphic Design, A Reader.  Princeton Architectural Press, 2006.

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. No Place Press, 2022. xx

Bennett, Audrey. “Follow the Golden Ratio from Africa to the Bauhaus for a Cross-Cultural Aesthetic for Images.” Critical Interventions 6, no. 1 (2012): 11-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/19301944.2012.10781414.

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. Allworth Press, 2022. xx

Bennett, Audrey and Ron Eglash. “Heritage Algorithms Combine the Rigors of Science with the Infinite Possibilities of Art and Design.” The Conversation, August 10, 2023. https://theconversation.com/heritage-algorithms-combine-the-rigors-of-science-with-the-infinite-possibilities-of-art-and-design-209309.

Berry, Anne, Kareem Collie, Penina Acayo Laker, Lesley-Ann Noel, Jennifer Rittner, and Kelly Walters, ed. The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Expression, and Reflection. Allworth Press, 2022.

BIPOC Design History. “BIPOC Design History: Black Design in America: African Americans and the African Diaspora in Graphic Design 19th Century–21st Century.” Polymode. Accessed May 29, 2025. https://bipocdesignhistory.com/products/black-design-in-america-african-americans-and-the-african-diaspora-in-graphic-design-19th-century-21st-century/?sku=117-PR-1.

Cherry, Maurice. “Revision Path.” Maurice Cherry. Accessed May 29, 2025. Podcast. https://revisionpath.com/podcasts/.

Eglash, Ron. African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design. Rutgers University Press, 1999.

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. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3804796.

Gaskins, Nettrice R. Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation: Culturally Relevant Making Inside and Outside of the Classroom. MIT Press, 2021.

Harris, Sylvia. “Searching for a Black Aesthetic in American Graphic Design.” In The Education of a Graphic Designer, edited by Steven Heller. Allworth Press, 1998. 125-129.

Holmes-Miller, Cheryl D. Here: Where the Black Designers Are. Princeton Architectural Press, 2024

Just City Lab. “Engage.” https://www.designforthejustcity.org/engage.

Just City Lab. “Read.” https://www.designforthejustcity.org/read.

Munro, Silas. Strikethrough! Typographic Messages of Protest. Letterform Archive Books, 2022.

Noel, Lesley-Ann. Design Social Change: Take Action, Work Toward Equity, and Challenge the Status Quo. Ten Speed Press, 2023.

Ofosu-Asare, Yaw. Decolonising Design in Africa: Towards New Theories, Methods, and Practices. Taylor & Francis (Unlimited), 2024.

Prempeh, Charlene. Now You See Me! An Introduction to 100 years of Black Design. Prestel, 2023.

Tunstall, Elizabeth Dori. Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook. MIT Press, 2023.

Turnstall, Elizabeth, and Jonathan M. Woodham. “Formulating National Design Policies: An Exchange of Letters.” Design Issues 27, no. 1 (2011): 83-88, https://www.jstor.org/stable/40983246.

Walters, Kelly. Black, Brown + Latinx Design Educators: Conversations on Design and Race. Princeton Architectural Press, 2021.

Washington, Michele Y.  “Evoking Objects of Change.” In Everlasting Plastics, edited by Tizziana Baldenebro, Joanna Joseph, Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt, and Lauren Leving. Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2024.

Wilson, Mabel O., “The Cartography of W. E. B. Du Bois' Color Line.” In W.E.B. Du Bois' Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America, edited by Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert. Princeton Architectural Press, 2018.

Woods, Maurice. “Design Q&A: Maurice Woods.” Eames Institute. Accessed July 11, 2025. https://www.eamesinstitute.org/kazam-magazine/maurice-woods-inneract-project/.