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Join us Thursday, January 16, at 4 p.m. ET
For our first PRINT Book Club of 2025, Jon Key will join Steven Heller and Debbie Millman to discuss his gorgeous and essential new book, Black, Queer, & Untold: A New Archive of Designers, Artists, and Trailblazers.
From the publisher:
“Growing up in Seale, Alabama as a Black Queer kid, then attending the Rhode Island School of Design as an undergraduate, Jon Key hungered to see himself in the fields of Art and Design. But in lectures, critiques, and in the books he read, he struggled to see and learn about people who intersected with his identity or who got him. So he started asking himself questions:
What did it mean to be a graphic designer with his point of view? What did it mean to be a Black graphic designer? A Queer graphic designer? Someone from the South? Could his identity be communicated through a poster or a book? How could identity be archived in a design canon that has consistently erased contributions by designers who were not white, straight, and male?
In Black, Queer, & Untold, acclaimed designer and artist Jon Key delves into these questions and manifests a book he (and so many others) needed when they were coming up. Black, Queer & Untold pays tribute to the incredible designers, artists, and people who came before. Jon offers these stories an enduring, reverential stage – and in doing so, gifts us a book that immediately takes its place among the creative arts canon.”
Jon(athan) Key is an artist, designer, educator, and writer originally from Seale, Alabama. Key began his design career at Grey Advertising in NYC before moving on to work with HBO, Nickelodeon, and The Public Theater. He is co-founder of the Brooklyn–based design studio Morcos Key with Wael Morcos and currently teaches at Cooper Union and SVA. Key is also a co-founder and design director of Codify Art, a multidisciplinary collective dedicated to creating, producing, supporting, and showcasing work by artists of color, particularly women, queer, and trans artists. His work has been featured in Jeffery Deitch Gallery NYC, the Armory Show, The New York Times, and The Atlantic and his writing has been featured in publications such as The Washington Post, The Black Experience in Design, and AIGA.
Don’t miss our conversation with Jon Key on Thursday, January 16 at 4 PM ET. Register for the live discussion and buy your copy of Black, Queer, & Untold: A New Archive of Designers, Artists, and Trailblazers.
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