Choiceology Podcast received silver medal🥈 at the annual SPD design competition for episodic art work! Thank you to @mattblease for his brilliant ideas! Going strong in season 15! #TheSocietyofPublicationDesigners #SPD #SPD60
SPD is turning 60 this year. Evidently print is not dead and digital is not its savior. If you’re a designer at a magazine today, congratulations, you have one of the most fun jobs out there. If you were in magazines and pivoted to telling stories for a brand—congratulations—you’re rich, and condolences, you are in marketing now. If you are a designer who brings stories to life in digital—god bless you, your job is never done.
All of you can get recognition here. SPD is one of the oldest competitions for designers who bring stories to life. The leap from the Word doc to a finished story should not be underestimated. Your friends don’t understand it and your parents will never understand why you get paid, so consider yourself special. Double down on your powers and celebrate it! #spd60 Thank you @pablodelcan for fun illutrations.
You can’t mirror what you don’t see.
Mutual Understanding, Respect and Celebration…but it must start with being aware
Published by W.E.B Dubois and edited by Jessie Fauset, The Brownies Book become the 1st mag published for Black youth– “for all children, but especially for ours, ‘the Children of the Sun.'”
Every cover was illustrated and designed by a prominent Black artist.
While it had a short run—from January 1920 to December 1921—its impact and mission are outsized
The seven goals stated in "The True Brownies" were:
◾️ To make colored children realize that being "colored" is a normal, beautiful thing.
◾️ To make them familiar with the history and achievements of the Negro race.
◾️To make them know that other colored children have grown into beautiful, useful and famous persons.
◾️ To teach them a delicate code of honor and action in their relations with white children.
◾️To turn their little hurts and resentments into emulation, ambition and love of their homes and companions.
◾️To point out the best amusements and joys and worth-while things of life.
To inspire them to prepare for definite occupations and duties with a broad spirit of sacrifice.
— W. E. B. Du Bois, "The True Brownies", The Crisis, October 1919
It was the first concerted effort to create a body of literature exclusively addressing the needs of African American children. Taking the vast range of their particular life experiences seriously.
It encouraged imagination and play, but it also faced the reality of racial prejudice while celebrating cultural distinctions specific to the Black childhood experience.
You can see several of The Brownie Book’s issue at the Library of Congress here: https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbc0001.2004ser01351/?sp=1
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Latest cover of Onward magazine for Charles Schwab. This beautiful paper sculpture of the bird created and photographed by @dianabeltranherrera
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