248: Cheryl D. Miller

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!

• Cheryl D. Miller’s Website

<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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