Decolonizing Design

From the American Institute of Graphic Art's (AIGA) Eye on Design, this site covers twenty movie posters featured in the Poster House's latest exhibition (2022).

From Instagram.

"BIPOC Design History was created due to the frustrations and glaring gaps in design education for black, indigenous, and people of color...
Through pre-recorded lectures,readings, and live discussions, the class will shed light on moments of oppression and visibility." —From the website.

A comprehensive Google doc with design history research resources on many different topics.

The website of Dr. Shay-Akil McLean a Queer Trans masculline man who is an educator, organizer, biologist with a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s School of Integrative Biology’s Program for Ecology, Evolution & Conservation Biology.

"Our objective—as design scholars and practitioners—is to transform the very terms of present day design studies and research." The site contains listings of events and symposia, guest contributions, research resources and more.

The decolonizing [or puncturing, or de-Westernizing, and SHIFTING] Design Reader, 2021-2022 edition. An in-progress, collaborative project that is invested in "Making design narratives inclusive." Created by graphic designer Ramon Tejada.

A “home for people who are committed to embodying and practicing the Design Justice Network Principles.” A sponsored project of Allied Media Projects

Site with text written by Darin Buzon, a multidisciplinary artist and designer.

"I would like to explore the various ways in which design is involved in giving meaning to the domains of dirty and clean - aesthetically, ideologically, materially and ethically - and how this influences our behaviour towards products." —Marjanne van Helvert

“This site is intended as a free resource for students, teachers, academics, and others interested in social theory and wishing to understand it in global perspective.”

A Miro board by graphic designer Ramon Tejada.

"Gráfica Latina is a digital repository that aims to serve as a resource for students, academics, professionals, and enthusiasts alike that are interested in expanding their references on graphic work developed by designers and artists from Latin America." From the site. Created by José Menéndez (Puerto Rican graphic designer) and Tatiana Gómez (Colombian graphic designer).

A contemporary graphic design studio, LGBTQ+, and Minority-owned with offices in California, and North Carolina. Specializes in books, curation, education, exhibition, identities, interfaces, publications, visual design, websites, workshops, and writing.

A freely available digital book by la paperson. "A Third University is Possible unravels the intimate relationship between the more than 200 US land grant institutions, American settler colonialism, and contemporary university expansion. Author la paperson cracks open uncanny connections between Indian boarding schools, Black education, and missionary schools in Kenya; and between the Department of Homeland Security and the University of California. Central to la paperson’s discussion is the “scyborg,” a decolonizing agent of technological subversion...Drawing parallels to Third Cinema and Black filmmaking assemblages, A Third University is Possible ultimately presents a framework for hotwiring university 'machines' to the practical work of decolonization." —From the website.

"Shamma Buhazza transforms Pinterest into a resource to decolonise design." —From the website.

From National Public Radio (NPR) in the US, this site features the recording of a TED Talk by Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Adichie.