If you have followed me and Revision Path since at least 2015, then you'll hopefully recognize how powerfully significant this week's guest is. Cheryl D. Miller holds many titles -- visual artist, designer, author, writer, and theologian. Her trailblazing 1985 graduate thesis at Pratt Institute helped fuel the conversation about diversity in design for Black designers and designers of color -- a conversation we're still continuing over 30 years later.
Cheryl and I talk about her multicultural upbringing, her time as a student at MICA and Pratt, and she shared her memories of life as a designer in NYC during the 80s and 90s. We also spoke about the latest chapter of Cheryl's design career -- the acquisition of her personal work archive by Stanford University! Cheryl is living design history, and I'm so glad to be able to share her story here with you all!
<li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/CDHolmesMiller/">Cheryl D. Miller on Facebook</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/bishopcdmiller/">Cheryl D. Miller on Instagram</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.aiga.org/diversity-inclusion-design-journeys-essay-cheryl-d-miller">AIGA: Cheryl Miller's Design Journey</a></li>
<li><a href="https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/tr623tv1100">"Transcending the Problems of the Black Graphic Designer to Success in the Marketplace" (1985)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.printmag.com/design-culture-2/history-2/blacks-in-design-1987/">"Black Designers: Missing in Action" (1987)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://library.stanford.edu/node/142441">"Famed graphic designer and racial, cultural and gender equity advocate Cheryl D. Miller donates personal archive to Stanford Libraries"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaJUiUsZDB8&feature=youtu.be">Cheryl D. Miller Collection Now at Stanford Libraries (VIDEO)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.fabulousfacesbylisa.com/Clients/Miller-Cheryl/The-Stanford-Collection/n-s8z7VZ/">Videos and Photos of The Stanford Collection</a></li>
<li><a href="https://amzn.to/2K1FfUv"><em>Black Coral: A Daughter's Apology to Her Asian Island Mother</em></a></li>
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