BIPOC designers sometimes feel like we have to work twice as hard to prove ourselves, that no matter what we do, it's never enough.

About Gail's talk

BIPOC designers sometimes feel like we have to work twice as hard to prove ourselves, that no matter what we do, it's never enough. Let's talk about this together, out in the open (or at least, I will!). Join me for some honest stories, both good and bad, of what it's like to navigate the design world as a person of color from the anything-goes 1980s though our current more thoughtful (?) climate.

Participants can expect to learn:

• A better basic understanding of DEI issues

• Honest answers to uncomfortable questions

• One designer's journey through cringeworthy-to-woke times

• About the speaker

  Gail Anderson is an NYC-based designer, educator, and writer. She is Chair of BFA Design and BFA Advertising at the School of Visual Arts and creative director at Visual Arts Press. Anderson has served as senior art director at Rolling Stone, creative director of design at SpotCo, and as a designer at The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine and Vintage Books. She has taught at SVA for thirty years and has co-authored 15 books on design, typography, and illustration with Steven Heller.