Jon is also a co-founder and design director of Codify Art, a multidisciplinary collective dedicated to creating, producing, supporting, and showcasing work by artists of color, particularly women, queer, and trans artists of color. Now he is co-founder of the Brooklyn–based design studio Morcos Key with Wael Morcos.Īs an educator, Jon has taught at Maryland Institute College of Art, Parsons School of Design, and currently teaches at Cooper Union. After receiving his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design, Jon began his design career at Grey Advertising in New York City before moving on to work with HBO, Nickelodeon, and The Public Theater. Jon(athan) Key is an artist, designer, and writer originally from Seale, Alabama. In constructing the book, the authors asked: “What does it mean to be Black and alive right now?” In its final form, the book includes a luscious set of recipes, archival tweets and more from over 100 contributors that tells the story of the radical, imaginative, and resilient world that emerging and renowned Black artists are producing today.Īnd in designing the book, over the three-year process, the designers asked: “How do we construct a non-linear experience to hold the various type of content to encompass the vastness of Blackness in InDesign? From indices to physical hyperlinks, the book flows in a non-linear yet interconnected fashion. The design is a compendium organized with multiple ways of accessing the variety of entries. Crafted using InDesign, Black Futures combines original artwork, essays, roundtable discussions, one-on-one interviews, poetry, and other forms of expression to pay tribute to the myriad modes of communication that have been championed by Black creatives from the height of the AIDS crisis into the speculative future.
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