creators
Sarah Edmands Martin
Assistant Professor of Visual Communication Design, University of Notre Dame
Sarah Edmands Martin is Assistant Professor of Visual Communication Design at the University of Notre Dame where her design practice, media-making, and scholarship unfold at the intersections of speculative design, visual communication design, digital storytelling, and media aesthetics. Prior to her current position, she was the faculty coordinator of Indiana University’s Graphic Design program in the School of Art, Architecture + Design (2018-2022). She has received fellowships that include a 2024 Fulbright, a 2023 Design Writing Fellowship at Chicago's Writing Space, and a 2021–22 Research Fellowship at the Institute for Digital Arts + Humanities. She has also published essays in books and journals such as CounterText, Ethics in Design and Communication: New Critical Perspectives, Digital Transformation in Design: Processes and Practices, and AIGA’s Eye on Design. Her current collaborative book projects include Beautiful Bureaucracy: A Design Brief for Civic Life (MIT Press, 2025) and Otherworldly Games: An Atlas of Playable Realities. Her design work has been recognized and published by PRINT, Graphis, the Paris Design Awards, London International Creative, and the Creative Communication Awards. Her industry-facing work spans clients from Citibank to AMC’s The Walking Dead.
Anne h. Berry
Professor, Director of design
university of illinois chicago
Anne H. Berry is a writer, designer and assistant professor in the Department of Art and Design at Cleveland State University. Her research focuses on race and representation and ethnic and racial disparities within the field of graphic design. She was featured in Communication Arts and interviewed for Maurice Cherry’s award-winning podcast Revision Path, and is a 2018 Design Incubation Fellow. Her essay “The Black Designer’s Identity” was also published in the inaugural issue of Recognize, an anthology featuring commentary from Indigenous people and people of color as part of “the next generation of emerging design voices,” via Inside Design by InVision. She is an unabashed political junkie.
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