Proud by Design, highlighting the work of contemporary LGBTQIA+ designers, is a series of online presentations and discussions hosted by Prof. Gloria Kondrup, HMCT Executive Director and moderated by Clifford Pun, HMCT Senior Coordinator.
Ramon Tejada (he/him) +
Silas Munro (he/they)
Wednesday, June 21 @ 1–2 PM (PT)
Silas Munro is an artist, designer, writer, and curator. He founded the LGBTQ+ and Minority-owned graphic design studio Polymode based in Los Angeles and Raleigh which works with clients across cultural spheres. Munro is the curator and author of Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest which opened at Letterform Archive in 2022–2023. He was a contributor to W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America and co-authored the forthcoming first BIPOC-centered design history course, Black Design in America: African Americans and the African Diaspora in Graphic Design 19–21st Century. Munro is faculty co-chair for the MFA Program in graphic design at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. @siborg81 (work sample below, left)
Ramon Tejada Ramon Tejeda is a DominicanYork (of Dominican-American, Afro-Caribbean, and LATINX descent) designer and educator based in Providence, RI, and occasionally in Southern California. He works in a hybrid design/teaching practice focusing on collaboration, inclusion, unearthing, and the responsible expansion of design, a practice he has named “puncturing.” Ramon is an Associate Professor in the Graphic Design Department at RISD (work sample below, right).
