Guest Curator Andrea Yepes Morgan Searcy and Brockett Horne, Mar 30th, 20233 min read Design journalist **Andrea Yepes** based in Envigado, Colombia offers her favorite items from the Archive and unique ideas about making design history.… Featured Contributor - Elizabeth Resnick Morgan Searcy, Mar 1st, 20233 min read It has been nearly six months since The People’s Graphic Design Archive’s (PGDA) permanent site launched. Since then, it has been exciting to watch PGDA contributors uploading work from an array of backgrounds and experiences.… Tagging the People’s Graphic Design Archive Johanna Drucker, Feb 24th, 20238 min read Whether in commercial and academic circles, user contributions generate real value on the basic principle that “discoverability” is enhanced by adding tags to content. Still, some tags may be more useful than others and so here are a few thoughts on the process. A collection the size of the People’s Graphic Design Archive is just too large to look through in its entirety, especially if you are looking for specific materials. Tags serve to sort the mass of stuff into smaller groups. The application of individual knowledge is a gift to others.… Making Black Cultural Heritage Visible Louise Sandhaus, Feb 1st, 20231 min read I want to draw attention to archivist and curator Dorothy Berry’s passionate essay “The House That Archives Built.” In this writing, she unpacks her fraught relationship with institutional archives and with the professional discipline in which she was trained that can render Black cultural heritage invisible.… Guest Curator: Jennifer Kinon Morgan Searcy, Jan 17th, 20233 min read Leading business, design and strategy at (link: https://www.championsdesign.com/ text: Champions target: _blank), Jennifer Kinon selected a few women-designed logos submitted to The People’s Graphic Design Archive and questioned what the data implies about the Archive and the broader profession.… Add-a-thons Bring Energy to The Archive Brockett Horne, Dec 20th, 20221 min read Two recent events have resulted in an expansion of unique, relevant new content for The Archive. Ramon Tejada, affable designer with a magic ability to encourage collaboration, hosted a virtual Latinx Add-a-thon in October for community members to upload new works. Ramon guided a vibrant conversation about Latinx design and history as users shared their passion projects and uploaded almost 50 new works.… Changing the Paradigm for how Graphic Design Histories are Taught Alan Caballero LaZare, Dec 7th, 20226 min read In 2021, I was hired by George Mason University to redesign the Graphic Design History course to reflect the needs of our students and the world in which they now find themselves. Continuing the status quo was no longer an option. The students demanded more, expected more, and deserved more than a regurgitation of the same narratives and limited perspectives preserved in the single lone voice of a default textbook based on a stale historical canon.… Guest Curator: Bobby Joe Smith III Brockett Horne, Nov 11th, 20225 min read Bobby Joe Smith III, Black and Lakota graphic designer, media artist, and educator living in Los Angeles drops insight on archives and shares a few favorites from The People’s Graphic Design Archive.… Case Study: Documenting & Preserving a Design History Treasure Trove Made Easy! Louise Sandhaus, Nov 7th, 20224 min read Packing up Margo Halverson's office at Maine College of Art & Design became a case study for organizing, documenting, and uploading large bodies of material to The People’s Graphic Design Archive (PGDA). She helped us figure out a process that was fast and easy!… Women’s History Month at The Archive Brockett Horne and Morgan Searcy, May 6th, 20216 min read For our first March in existence we featured and honored all women… Black History Month Brockett Horne and Morgan Searcy, Mar 4th, 20217 min read In February, we featured all Black designers on our social media accounts, twitter, instagram, and facebook. As we were planning for our… PoWOWer to the People! Louise Sandhaus, Jul 6th, 20206 min read WOW! That was pretty much my daily reaction when I started researching California’s contribution to graphic design…
