It pisses me off how quiet graphic designer twitter is. You don’t solve this with cute handlettered slogans. Stealing words & styles & vibes from black artists who are completely written out of design history is not it.

Black lives are more important than your stupid ~brand~

People who worry about their ~brand~ over black lives should be the ones who are blacklisted from this industry

If you are an AD/Editor and seeing artists speak out makes you ~uncomfortable~ you can go kick rocks

How dare any of you make artists feel like they have to pick between speaking out and ever getting work again. What the actual f. Who do any of you think you are?!

Now is the time to listen to, support & be there for black artists. GIVE THEM WORK but not just now all the year!

Also seeing a few ADs/editors try to make a big show of hi to bg one black artist is tokenism. You need to support artists without getting praise— it’s the absolute least you can do

You SHOULD be trying 2 chnage things in your departments, making opportunities, asking “hard” q’s

And IMO there is nothing “difficult” about talking to people in your world about standing up for and supporting black creators.

So get your sh*t together design world.

It’s not difficult to find black creators to hire— Twitter has a ton of amazing threads, do the work yourself and look up tags like #drawingwhileblack

Send emails to your colleagues w/ links to threads

Here is a great thread for you to start on
https://twitter.com/kianamaiart/status/1266440406931103745?s=21 https://twitter.com/kianamaiart/status/1266440406931103745

I never want to see an AD or Editor complain about how hard or how they don’t have time to research artists & so that’s why they don’t know where to find black artists.

It’s literally your job to research artists- you get paid to give people chances

you’re a steward not a god