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OKRA by @studio.and.projects OKRA is the first d OKRA by @studio.and.projects 

OKRA is the first design by Studio & Projects from our upcoming rug collection with the manufacturer @official_odabashian

The inspiration for the collection came from our love and appreciation of the variety of plants that were brought from West Africa to the United States and have now become thought of as American staples in foodways, fabric, and color.

The pattern illustrates the form and beauty of the okra plant, reflecting both the lines of the seed pods and their interior sections, which have an unexpected floral quality.

On view now SPOTLIGHT ONE
@acehotelbrooklyn 
@blackfolksindesign 

Photos by @sans.murs 

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#studio&projects
Ode vessel by @studio_anansi The ‘Ode’ Vesse Ode vessel by @studio_anansi 

The ‘Ode’ Vessel is part of Studio ANANSI’s first collection exploring the countless expressions of African diaspora and blackness through functional art objects. ‘Ode’Vessel’s is a decorative object with simple forms rooted in African art, reimagined through a hand turned process and finished with an oil and wax treatment.
 
On view now SPOTLIGHT ONE
@acehotelbrooklyn 
@blackfolksindesign 

Photo by @sans.murs 

#blackfolksindesign 
#studioanansi
Framework Chair, 2015/2021 by Luam Melake. #luamme Framework Chair, 2015/2021 by Luam Melake. #luammelake 

This chair is designed to be viewed from all sides using a self-imposed system of mathematical rules in order to achieve ideal proportions. Using the low back armchairs of early 20th century Viennese architects as inspiration for the form, each vantage point reveals a composition of symmetrical and harmonious proportions. A soft, rubber cushion mimics the over-under rhythm of the warp and weft of weaving, while following the proportions of the chair form. A rational clarity of form and material innovation provide an update to established conventions in design history.

On view now SPOTLIGHT ONE
@acehotelbrooklyn 
@blackfolksindesign 

Photo by @sans.murs 

#blackfolksindesign 
#luammelake
A Road Less Traveled by @ceramicmeltdown Artist A Road Less Traveled by @ceramicmeltdown 

Artist statement: My work is inspired by the artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and Piet Mondrian. It aims to capture the abstract design of color, depth and the imperfection of traditionally shaped forms that exhibit both functional and sculptural. 

Process destails: Kyle Lee creates ceramics using White Stoneware Clay and paints them with a sprayed layer of white underglaze (much like a painter gesso’s a canvas) to create a blank surface in which to paint upon. The pieces are then colored with brush strokes of vibrantly colored underglazes with wax resisted shapes and symbolism. The pieces are glazed with a clear, transparent glaze and then fired in an electric kiln.

On view now SPOTLIGHT ONE @acehotelbrooklyn @blackfolksindesign 

Photo by @sans.murs 

#blackfolksindesign #ceramicmeltdown
Abstract Various Canvas II by @creativehunt Abst Abstract Various Canvas II by @creativehunt 

Abstract Various Canvas II is a screen printed work on canvas, painted with acrylic paint and hand applied 24K gold leaf. It is a graphic, gridded abstract pattern consisting of squares in a random repeat. The work is part of a series that explores the re-use and reproduction of the artist’s archive of gold leaf sheets used in her previous works on paper. 

The use of gold and gold leaf in Lisa Hunt’s art comes from her desire to illuminate her patterns in a way that allows them to endure. Allusions to everything from Art Deco and folk art to typographic elements repurposed and reimagined and the natural world inform her. Through her appreciation of indigenous textiles and the decorative arts she seeks to create a visual vocabulary. This series allows for a new expression of the materials and the print making process. 

On view now SPOTLIGHT ONE @acehotelbrooklyn @blackfolksindesign 

Photo by @sans.murs 

#blackfolksindesign #creativehunt
12 by @garth_tm 12 stool/side table concept devel 12 by @garth_tm

12 stool/side table concept developed for the @acehoteltoronto embodies the esthetic themes of the project with natural material, and sculptural form.

Composed of two repeating elements, the stool’s simplicity expresses a playful connection between nature and architecture.

On view now SPOTLIGHT ONE @acehotelbrooklyn @blackfolksindesign 

Photo by @sans.murs 

#blackfolksindesign #garthroberts
Spotlight One is the inaugural exhibition from Bla Spotlight One is the inaugural exhibition from Black Folks in Design. The seven works exhibited showcase the diversity of disciplines and aesthetics of Black designers. The exhibition showcases pieces by six contemporary Black designers working in a diversity of disciplines, aesthetics
and artistic practices, including furniture, sculpture, screen printing, interiors and architecture.

Featuring works by Garth Roberts, Kyle Scott Lee, Lisa Hunt, Luam Maleke, Studio ANANSI and Studio & Projects, Spotlight One will be on view and open to the public through June 29.

Curated by @littlewinglee 
Exhibition design by @studio.and.projects  Photos by @sans.murs 

#blackfolksindesign @garth_tm @ceramicmeltdown @creativehunt #luammelake @studio_anansi @studio.and.projects
Meet the designers of SPOTLIGHT ONE - the first ex Meet the designers of SPOTLIGHT ONE - the first exhibit from Black Folks in Design. May 13th - June 29th Link in bio.

Studio & Projects @studio.and.projects designs spaces and develops products for cultural, commercial, and residential
clients.

Founded by Little Wing Lee, S&P is a full-service, multi-disciplinary design office specializing in interior design and architecture, furniture, and lighting. We collaborate closely with project
partners, vendors, craftspeople and designers to ensure a complete and united creative vision throughout a project. Experienced in both new construction and full renovation projects, S&P takes a narrative approach to design and is known for its distinctive use of color, texture, and materiality.

Studio & Projects offices are located in Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood.

#blackfolksindesign #interiordesign #productdesign
Meet the designers of SPOTLIGHT ONE - the first ex Meet the designers of SPOTLIGHT ONE - the first exhibit from Black Folks in Design. May 13th - June 29th Link in bio.

Studio ANANSI @studio_anansi was founded in 2018 by Canadian-born Evan Jerry, a designer and artist devoted to exploring Afro and black culture and heritages through contemporary expressions of furniture and objects.

Through his practice Studio ANANSI, he is represented by furniture galleries in New York and Europe and has collaborated with renowned furniture brands such as CB2 and TRNK New York. His work has been featured in high-profile international magazines such as Interior Design, Wallpaper, Azure, Elle Decoration, Architectural Digest and Sight Unseen and taken part in global design exhibitions including the London Design Festival.

#blackfolksindesign #furniture #productdesign
Meet the designers of SPOTLIGHT ONE - the first ex Meet the designers of SPOTLIGHT ONE - the first exhibit from Black Folks in Design. May 13th - June 29th Link in bio.

Luam Melake (www.luammelake.com) creates hand woven sculptures and furniture objects using inventive material combinations that reference her interdisciplinary interests in craft, industrial design, fine art and architecture. She received her BA from the University of California, Berkeley in Interdisciplinary Field Studies majoring in Architecture with a minor in Art History in 2008. Solo and two-person exhibitions include Sensitive Forms at Parker Gallery, Los Angeles (2021), Luam Melake’s Curious Hybrids, Artskop and Versant Sud, France (2020) and Without Qualities at Addis Fine Art, New York (2018). Recent group exhibitions include Objects USA 2020 at R & Company, New York (2021), Transatlantico at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ (2020), Sumegne / Ngaparou 2 at Fondation Blachère, Apt, France (2020). She has been Artist-in-Residence at prominent institutions, including Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha (2019), Fondation Blachere in Apt, France (2019) and The Museum of Arts and Design in New York (2017-18 & 2022) and was awarded the Female Design Council Grant in 2021. Melake lives and works in New York and is currently a research fellow at Parsons School of Design.

#blackfolksindesign #luammelake #furniture
Meet the designers of SPOTLIGHT ONE - the first ex Meet the designers of SPOTLIGHT ONE - the first exhibit from Black Folks in Design. May 13th - June 29th Link in bio.

Lisa Hunt @creativehunt is a Maplewood, New Jersey-based artist and designer. Her screen printed and collaged works on paper and panel explore the spatial and meditative relationships found within repeat patterns. Through the use of graphic shapes and symbols, Hunt’s work draws inspiration from a broad range of influences including West African textiles, African American quilt-making, typography and the Art Deco movement. Hunt’s work draws a connection to adornment throughout history while commenting on contemporary materialism and value by accenting her primarily neutral palette with gold leaf.

#blackfolksindesign #screenprinting #collage
Meet the designers of SPOTLIGHT ONE - the first ex Meet the designers of SPOTLIGHT ONE - the first exhibit from Black Folks in Design. May 13th - June 29th. Link in bio.

Kyle Scott Lee @ceramicmeltdown was born in White Plains, NY and currently resides in Park Slope, Brooklyn. He creates voluptuous vessels and well-turned cups that provide the canvas for his unique hand painting and surface treatments. Kyle’s practice has included teaching over the years at Educational Alliance Art School and other institutions. Kyle has studied ceramics in multiple studios throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn, NY and has exhibited in solo and group gallery exhi-bitions in New York City and abroad. His work can also be found in private collections in London, France, New York, Pittsburgh, Texas and North Caroli-na. Over his 15 years as a ceramicist, Kyle has developed his unique style of ceramic art incorporating traditional shapes with a colorful and abstract sense of design and glaze application.

Kyle is a founding member of BKLYN CLAY and the first recipient of the BKLYN CLAY Residency. He is currently a partnered designer with West Elm and Chairish.

Lee creates ceramics using White Stoneware Clay and paints them with a sprayed layer of white underglaze (much like a painter gesso’s a canvas) to create a blank surface in which to paint upon. The pieces are then colored with brush strokes of vibrantly colored underglazes with wax resisted shapes and symbolism. The pieces are glazed with a clear, transparent glaze and then fired in an electric kiln.

#blackfolksindesign #ceramics
Meet the designers of SPOTLIGHT ONE- the first exh Meet the designers of SPOTLIGHT ONE- the first exhibit from Black Folks in Design. May 13th - June 29th. Link in bio.

Garth Roberts @garth_tm founded his studio in 2010 after a series of pop-up studio projects collaborating with universities in Milan, Berlin, and New York. Before establishing his atelier, he gained experience as part of prestigious design teams in North America and Europe.
 
Since the summer of 2009, he has been working between Milan, Berlin, and New York.

The studio operates in various fields of product design and creative direction. This work has included developing projects for clients such as CC-Tapis, Glas Italia, Kalmar Werkstätten, Mabeo Furniture, Serralunga, B&B Italia, Zanotta, the LRRH_ Art Project, and others in a wide range of venues from high-end furniture to contemporary art.
 
His works have been honored by international awards and nominations, most notably,
the Elle Decor Design Award, the Wallpaper* design award, and multiple German Design Awards amongst others.

#blackfolksindesign #productdesign #creativedirection
We are thrilled to announce that our inaugural exh We are thrilled to announce that our inaugural exhibition, Spotlight One, will open in The Gallery @acehotelbrooklyn on May 13 in conjunction with NYCxDesign. 

The exhibition showcases pieces by six contemporary Black designers working in a diversity of disciplines, aesthetics and artistic practices, including furniture, sculpture, screen printing, interiors and architecture. 

Featuring works by Garth Roberts, Kyle Scott Lee, Lisa Hunt, Luam Melake, Studio ANANSI and Studio & Projects, Spotlight One will be on view and open to the public through June 29.

Join us for the opening party, Friday, May 13 7-9PM. Full info at the link in bio #blackfolksindesign @garth_tm @ceramicmeltdown @creativehunt #luammelake @studio_anansi @studio.and.projects
Historic! RISD’s new President! @crystalannwilli Historic! RISD’s new President! @crystalannwilliams ✨Congratulations President Williams✨#blackfolksindesign #educator #president Repost from @risd1877
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Today we are honored to welcome Crystal Williams on her first day as RISD’s 18th president.

An accomplished leader, community builder, collaborator, educator and poet, she is dedicated to helping further RISD’s role in creating a more just, fair and sustainable society.

Learn more about how President Williams is getting to know our community through introductions and events via the link in profile.

Welcome, President Williams!

Photo: Jo Sittenfeld MFA 08 PH
#RISD #RISD1877 #RISDPresident
Congratulations to Anne Dereaux of Dereaux Studio Congratulations to Anne Dereaux of Dereaux Studio @dereauxstudio ⁠
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Chopp Stewart of Florida Water Interiors @floridawaterinteriors ⁠ for being honored by the Female Design Council and NICOLE HOLLIS #blackfolksindesign @femaledesigncouncil @nicolehollissf  Repost from @femaledesigncouncil
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With so many successful FDC + NICOLEHOLLIS grant submissions, we wanted to recognize additional designers whose work deserves attention. We acknowledge these designers for their talent, successful proposals, and robust documentation to support their proposed projects.⁠
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Congratulations to our founder and creative direct Congratulations to our founder and creative director!  Repost from @studio.and.projects
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So honored and excited for my studio to receive this recognition! Thank you @femaledesigncouncil and @nicolehollissf  The Female Design Council (FDC), together with AD100 designer Nicole Hollis, has announced its newest grant recipient will be Brooklyn-based designer Little Wing Lee. Intended as a means of supporting BIPOC female-identifying designers, the grant awards $15,000 to a single recipient.⁠
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“We are fortunate to be able to provide financial support and mentorship to advance equity in design,” Lora Appleton, FDC’s founder, says. “Nicole Hollis and the larger design community came together to provide resources for this much-needed grant program. We are humbled by the action and look forward to continued success supporting womxn of color in design.”⁠
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Read full story on Architectural Digest, Link In Bio⁠
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"I am truly honored to be the recipient of the Female Design Council and Nicole Hollis grant. I see this grant as an investment in my talent and skill that will help me establish the foundation I need to thrive as a Black woman in the design business. Receiving this incredible support and the recognition is a wonderful investment in my studio. I'm looking forward to using a portion of the award to fund two product development projects we initiated earlier this year: a rug design collaboration and a small furniture collection. We're at an inflection point, and this grant will give me the opportunity and momentum to build and invest in future projects.”⁠
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- Little Wing Lee, Founder/Creative Director @blackfolksindesign & @studio.and.projects, Winner of the FDC + NICOLEHOLLIS Grant⁠
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"We envisioned the FDC + NICOLEHOLLIS Grant to encourage and support a brighter, and more equitable, future for design, and with the announcement of our first winner and honorees, we've begun. I'm so excited to see what our winner Little Wing and our honorees do next." ⁠
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- Nicole Hollis, Creative Director and Principal of NICOLEHOLLIS⁠
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Words @sopherring⁠
Little Wing Lee Portrait Photograph by @j_deleo
Althea McNish: Colour is Mine gallery show openin Althea McNish: Colour is Mine  gallery show opening soon. #altheamcnish #textiledesign #blackfolksindesign Repost from @morrisgallery
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Opens THIS WEEKEND! ⭐
Althea McNish: Colour is Mine

In 1950, Althea McNish and her mother Margaret travelled to England on the SS Columbie, disembarking at Southampton on 9th November 1950. They had left their home in Trinidad to join Joseph McNish, Althea’s father, who had settled in London the previous year to set up a publishing venture.

Like many of her Caribbean contemporaries, McNish reconciled herself to the fact that in order to develop her career she would have to emigrate. At the same time, she never lost her longing for home, referencing Trinidad in the patterns and names of her designs.

Exhibition sponsored by Liberty Fabrics @libertylondon. Part of the @bbcarts Art That Made Us Festival for Spring 2022. 

📷Trinidad, designed by Althea McNish for Heals, 1961 © Goldsmiths, University of London

@goldsmithsdesign @socantiquaries @studionyali 

#ColourIsMine #AltheaMcNish #BachelorGirl #CaribbeanArts #TrinidadandTobago #textiledesign #patterndesign #exhibitions2022⭐
Congratulations to @kerefrancis @kerearchitecture Congratulations to @kerefrancis @kerearchitecture 
2022 Pritzker Prize Winner

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“If you want to develop, you have to embrace tradition.” Francis Kéré, 2022 Laureate, in the video, Gando.

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Black Folks in Design (BFiD) is a network that connects Black designers to ourselves, both within and across disciplines, in order to support each other and share professional opportunities. We seek to expose the historical and current mastery and excellence of Black designers to the broader design community and relevant stakeholders, and ultimately create economic and portfolio- building opportunities for Black designers. Black Folks in Design is unique in that it connects Black designers across the world from a variety of disciplines, including but not limited to architecture, fashion, interior design, graphic design, etc. BFiD creates opportunities for Black designers to connect in-person in thoughtful and beautiful spaces. We also provide resources to help the broader design community and our society understand the critical role of Black designers, acknowledge and identify them, and hire them. Design is part of our everyday lives – from the clothes, we put on in the morning to the toys we buy for our children to the offices and schools we work in every day. Black designers are a part of the group of aesthetic decision-makers and problem-solvers who create culture, content, and products that shape and change the world. Essentially, Black designers matter. We help the world see that.