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Pixar Art + Soul Challenge: Team up with Adobe, Disney and Pixar to celebrate Soul, a new film about a band teacher whose passion for jazz music sends him on an incredible adventure to discover the answers to some of life’s most important questions. Design an album cover using artwork from the film to showcase what makes you…YOU. Post it on Instagram and Twitter. The Pixar Soul film is an ambitious… -
The ability of African Americans to create something unique and enduring without White America's gaze and influence is what many of them fear most. “Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.”― W.E.B. DuBois W.E.B. DuBois (1868-1963) is one of my favorite Black intellectuals most likely because I like sociology. I enjoyed studying his book, The Philadelphia Negro, while in graduate school. It gave me a different…
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The pandemic has forced all of us online. But, can it function like face to face communication? Some of us are learning to navigate a fully digital landscape for the first time. If you do not know how to use Zoom, FaceTime or Google Meet, you better talk to a millennial. According to a Pew study, 73% of online millennials said the internet has been mostly a good thing for…
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Is there really anything to look forward to after a pandemic and a recession? In the AMC post-apocalyptic horror television series, The Walking Dead, an ensemble cast of humans are trying their best not to become dinner for what they call walkers. These are zombies that will do anything to eat you. Of course, life is stressful when you have to worry about being someone's snack. So, creativity is abundant…
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Dear White Graphic Design Community, First off, I am not writing this letter on my behalf. I am writing this letter on behalf of African American graphic designers in the field who are coming behind me. I am an award-winning graphic designer and brand consultant and have been practicing in the field for 30 years. I am comfortable in my skin and work continues to find me. So, I am…
