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Join us on Saturday, October 18, from 3:00 – 4:45 PM EST | 2:00 – 3:45 PM CST | 12:00 – 1:45 PM PST for our next Special Topics lecture with José Ato Menéndez and Tatiana Gómez Gaggero from Gráfica Latina in Conversation with Incomplete Latinx Stories of Diseño Gráfico facilitator Ramon Tejada.

The poster, in all its expansive forms, en América Latina holds a vaunted position in the graphic production from the continent. Latin American posters designed throughout the 20th & 21st centuries speak about the cultural, social, economic, and political contexts in which they were—or/and still are—created from Patagonia to the Andes, Central America, the Caribbean, and North America. Using Gráfica Latina’s emerging archive and the recent Graphic Voices of Latin America exhibition, we take a look at some of the key moves that have emerged throughout the continent and that have created a rich and varied body of work that speaks to the rich diversity of design on the continent.

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Posters—Graphic Voices of América Latina: Archival Moves of Representation

with Ramon Tejada, Tatiana Gómez Gaggero, José R. Menéndez
Join us on Saturday, October 18, from 3:00 – 4:45 PM EST | 2:00 – 3:45 PM CST | 12:00 – 1:45 PM PST for our next Special Topics lecture with José Ato Menéndez and Tatiana Gómez Gaggero from Gráfica Latina in Conversation with Incomplete...

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All Power to the People: Black Panther Party artist Emory Douglas’s posters as activism and tools for change

All Power to the People: Black Panther Party artist Emory Douglas’s posters as activism and tools for change

with Colette Gaiter
This class is led by the brilliant Colette Gaiter, continuing her impactful lecture from our first BIPOC Design History course, Black Design in America. This special session will spotlight the revolutionary work of Emory Douglas, Minister of Culture for the...

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Painting Her Own Path: The Legacy of Angel De Cora

with Yvonne Tiger
Yvonne Tiger explores the life and lasting impact of Angel De Cora (Hinook-Mahiwi-Kalinaka), a Ho-Chunk artist, designer, writer, and educator who helped shape the foundations of Native American visual culture. Through her illustrations, typography, and teaching, De Cora blended Western...

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Printing, Sovereignty, and Protest

with Jimmy Dean Horn
Jimmy Dean Horn is a multidisciplinary artist and designer whose work lives at the intersection of print, protest, and personal story. What began as a deep love for printmaking has grown into a broader design practice—one that now spans clothing,...

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New Red Order: Signs of Savage Philosophy in Action

with New Red Order
New Red Order delves into the provocative and evolving work of New Red Order (NRO), a public secret society of Native artists and collaborators who use humor, media, and performance to confront colonialism and interrogate cultural appropriation. Through the lens...

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Supporting and Strengthening Native Typography

with Chris Skillern, Leo Vicenti, Kevin King
In this collaborative session, Kevin King, Leo Vicenti, and Chris Skillern explore the vital role of typography in Indigenous language and visual sovereignty. Through individual talks, they examine typography from technical, cultural, and creative lenses—ranging from the specific challenges of...

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Innovation As Tradition: The Art and Design of Wabanaki Ash and Sweetgrass Basketry

with Sarah Sockbeson
Sarah Sockbeson offers a powerful look into the design, materials, and meaning behind  Wabanaki ash and sweetgrass basketry. Sharing her experience apprenticing with master weaver Jennifer Neptune, Sockbeson discusses the patterns and processes that ground her work in tradition while...

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Tracing the Footsteps and Protests of Anthony Martin Fernando: Global Indigenous Activist

with Gloria Jane Bell
Gloria Jane Bell’s is exploring the extraordinary life and resistance of Anthony Martin Fernando, an early Aboriginal Australian who protested global injustices faced by Indigenous peoples throughout the early 20th century. Through archival research and visual culture, Bell traces Fernando’s...

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Reinventing the Indigenous Graphic Design Canon: No Printing Press Needed

with Sadie Red Wing
Sadie Red Wing delves into the complex semiotics and deeper meanings embedded in Indigenous graphic design. She discusses how the nomadic lifestyles of many Indigenous peoples meant printing presses were not practical, which contributed to Indigenous voices being excluded from...

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Mary Sully’s Practice of Native Design: Tradition, Crisis, Futurity

with Philip J. Deloria
Historian Philip Deloria offers a deeply personal and detailed exploration of Mary Sully’s innovative personality prints—her striking three-panel pieces. He discusses her unique creative process and shares his journey to bring her art to a wider audience. Deloria highlights how...

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Irrational Indigenous Insights

with Anna Tsouhlarakis
Anna Tsouhlarakis, a member of the Navajo Nation with Creek and Greek descent, will present her lecture Irrational Indigenous Insights, an exploration of language, perception, and the complexity of Indigenous identity. Through her work words take on many facets of...

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Designed To Be Red: Notes on Native American and Indigenous Graphic Works

with Brian Johnson
Brian Johnson is locating, identifying, and archiving Native-made and designed printed posters, while also challenging conventional definitions of what a poster can be. This lecture explores Indigenous design art forms like wampum belts, beaded regalia, and painted hides as powerful...

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A picture of a screen with a cluster of pink dots, and a couple blue dots. The dots are connected to lines, which look like they want to meet at a center. In the middle there are 3D figures forming that look like incomplete scans of objects that have not yet loaded.

Knowledge Making Against Digital Colonialism

with Morehshin Allahyari
This class will focus on questions of access, knowledge production, and knowledge protection using Digital Colonialism as its methodology. What are the ways we can protect cultural and ancestral knowledge while giving access? How can we turn around power structures...

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A dynamic collage of political and cultural imagery in a digital style collage.

Patterns to Freedom

with Sadeem Yacoub
Through the vast landscapes and diverse cultures, Sudan’s rich history is steeped in tradition and tainted with political unrest. Patterns to Freedom covers the historical and cultural significance of design and the influence it had in the context of the...

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A colorful collage of books and posters with diverse languages, illustrating the richness of global literature and culture.

The (Arab) Queering of Design Practice

with Wael Morcos, Marwan Kaabour
It has taken many years for queer subjects from the SWANA region to be represented in design practice. It has taken even longer for queer voices from the design community to emerge. Marwan Kaabour and Wael Morcos both operate within...

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Three Political posters from Iran. The first one to the left shows a silhouette of a woman holding a torch. The middle poster is a of a woman who looks intensely at the viewer with hair made of flames, and a flag with low opacity in the background. The Last poster on the right is of a woman holding up her right fist, and holding her hijab is the other.

Art is Revolting: Visualizations of Protest in Iran

with Sheharazad Fleming
In their quest for basic human rights, modern-day Iranians are combatting the extreme treatment of a brutal and oppressive regime in a way which mirrors that of their ancestors — through revolt. This lecture highlights the struggle for freedom, women's...

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Map of the world deconstructed as if the globe was sliced up and flattened. Its panels are geometric.

The ‘Myth’ of Global Design History

with Danah Abdulla
Criticised for its lack of diversity, the design history canon has sought to redeem itself by integrating a ‘global’ notion to make up for excluding the histories of nations in the Global South. But what constitutes a global design history...

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Two photos are shown, on the left is Weavers from Cooperative Ibilou with children, showcasing their Azilal rug. The weavers are outside, we see snowy mountains in the background, and reddish brown dirt in the foreground. The weaving features a design with line motifs, dots, and diamond shapes. On the right is a cropped detail of traditional Al Sadu weaving. It is striped with diamond motifs inside of the stripes, as well as an abstracted figure with arms.

Woven in Feminism: Amazigh & Al Sadu Symbols

with Dina Benbrahim, Munirah Al Shami
This lecture discusses feminist craft practices across Morocco and Kuwait—from aesthetic and functional value to political value. The visual language of Amazigh design in rugs is used as a feminist tool of collective memory, resistance, and innovation within an oppressive,...

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A collection of archival typographic expressions ranging from the works of Helmi Eltouni and Maḥmūd al-Hindī from various archives like Arab Design Archive, Palestine Archive, and Walkers Art Museum.

Typographic Expression Across Time: From Archives to Contemporary Practices

with Omaima Dajani, Naïma Ben Ayed
The course focuses on the significance of incorporating Arab cultural and historical elements into design work, particularly in the field of type design and typography, utilizing the diverse visual archives available. This approach enables designers to produce exceptional works that...

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Ornate poster design featuring a black and white illustration, a woman is in the foreground with what looks like a cigarette. She wears an ornate tunic, and white head scarf. Women carrying vases on their heads are in the background.

A History of Arab Graphic Design

with Bahia Shehab
Arab graphic design emerged in the early 20th century out of a need to influence, and give expression to, the far-reaching economic, social, and political changes that were taking place in the Arab world at the time. But graphic design...

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Historical map of Iraq featuring blue and red markings, created by Al-Iṣṭaḵrī in 1193 CE, Or. 3101, Leiden University.

Disorientating SWANA: A Journey Through Maps

with Sherine Salla
South to North, East to West, where does SWANA begin, where does it manifest? Maps are more than a neutral representation of Earth; they are flattened, edited, labelled, distributed, and along the way, they are imbued with layers of subjectivities....

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An ornate digital design featuring Paccha Duchichela. The design is hyper digital, only using vector lines that are all the same weight, and the ornaments are black, gray, with some accents of red. The left third looks like a playing card, Paccha Duchichela’s face is illustrated, the design is mirrored and framed flowers dots and rectangles. The rest of the image is repeating rectangles of various shapes. Everything looks organized, and letter forms, and even forms reminiscent of people can be seen.

Otros Susurros Desde los Andes

with Vanessa Zúñiga Tinizaray
A typographic-dingbat journey, titled Abya Yala: Visual Chronicles, through the little-known stories of the original cultures that inhabited the Andes. Vanessa Zúñiga develops her design from the semiotic and morphological analysis of the archaeological pieces’ visual signs. Then she translates...

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A portrait of a red human figure on a black background. The person looks straight as us. They are wearing what looks like a scarf on their head. On both sides of the scarf the word “amauta” is written. The number 26 is on the chest of their top.

On Typography and Language in Peru

with Juan Villanueva
This class will be an overview of the rich visual culture of Peru through the lens of typography and language. We’ll look at visual and written communication from pre-columbian times until the early 21st century, and explore the aesthetics of...

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In/dependence: An Incomplete Survey of Cuban Design

with Ana Llorente, Elaine Lopez
Cuban graphic design is complex; its breadth and depth links to politics, geography, nationalism, inventiveness, economics, and much more. This complexity, in addition to 60+ years of a communist dictatorship that continues to trigger a Cuban diaspora expanding the globe,...