Resources for Hiring and Celebrating Black Talent

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At PRINT, we’re working on new editorial initiatives around black designers and designers of color. In the meantime, here are some excellent links for finding, hiring and celebrating black talent, along with a host of resources beyond the world of design. If you’re looking for ways to get involved—protesting, donating, volunteering—the latter half of this collection offers inroads to start. And overall, this list is a start, too—it is by no means comprehensive. We’ll be updating and adding links as we come across them. (Have one to add? Please send it our way.)

For much more, stop by this Google Doc by @botanicaldyke—covering everything from jail support and legal services to advice for protesting, low-cost ways to support Black Lives Matter and even international resources.

Black Talent

Blacks Who Design

African American Graphic Designers (AAGD)

Hire Black Female Creatives

28 Black Designers (from 2017, though still a great list)

People of Craft

Black Artists & Designers Guild

Revision Path

Black Creatives Directory

Black UX Collective

Black-Owned Fashion Brands to Support and Invest In

Black-Owned Fashion Labels


Dialogue and Other Resources

Black Design Twitter

HUE Design Summit

Umber: The Creative Thinker’s Graphic Journal

38 Creatives Talk Being Black in the (Interior) Design Industry—and What Needs to Change

Black Designers: Still Missing in Action?


Designers of Tomorrow

Inneract Project: Empowering the Next Generation of Black and Brown Designers

Creative Reaction Lab

E4 Youth

designExplorr


Beyond Design

Register to Vote

Official George Floyd Memorial Fund

I Run With Maud (Ahmaud Arbery Fund)

National Bail Fund Network

Donate to Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter Website

List of Petitions

Black Lives Matter Healing in Action Toolkit

Guide to Allyship

Black History Library

Lucky Risograph in New York City is also offering free printing services for activists and organizers

Updated June 9 with additional resources. Special thank you to Terrence Moline.Updated June 11, with special thanks to Tiffany Ricks