Designed to be Red: On View Sep 25, 2026 - Feb 21, 2027

[DESIGN]. Ed. Brian Johnson. Artists: Leo Vicenti, Jimmy Dean Horn, Whess Harman, Chris Skillern, Monique Ortman, Bobby Joe Smith, Cem Eskinazi, Ben Calabaza, Isaac Boss, Joshua Whitehead, Emma Waggoner, et al. "Designed to be Red: On View Sep 25, 2026 - Feb 21, 2027." New York: Poster House, 2026. First edition. English language. Softcover grey card wrapper enclosure holding eleven cards with artist bio and concept statement on verso and typographical design on recto, the cards can be arranged and spell [Design to Red] or other phrases. 8vo. 8 1/2 x 6 inches. 5 oz. 11 cards, hypothetically 22 pp. with the interior printed black and red with Native political struggle imagery. Text clean. Like New to Fine. No ISBN. No ASIN. No OCLC. "Native designers are not often shown as authors of their own ideas or images, controlling neither how and when their stories are depicted, nor through what channels and mediums. Instead, Indigenous existence has been historically reduced to iconography that supports the American mythos that its numerous and distinct tribes are dead and in the past. Mythmakers and marketing teams have long used graphic design to tell stories about Native Americans, First Nations, Metis, Alaska Natives, and other Indigenous peoples rather than with them, creating reductive, inaccurate, and harmful representations of a living, vibrant, and varied group of people. Despite this, Native graphic art has a rich history that shows that its practitioners are not merely subjects of design but shapers of it, innovators who have created dynamic, subversive, and optimistic work despite centuries of cultural obliteration, land theft, and socio-economic marginalization. This is a publication published to accompany the exhibition.".…