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Taekyeom Lee

Artist, Designer, Educator / By

Taekyeom Lee is a graphic designer with a fine artist’s sensibility. As a researcher, educator, and maker — born and raised in South Korea, now living and teaching in Madison, Wisconsin — he works in the space where tactility and technology meet, combining ancient materials and cutting-edge techniques with endless curiosity. Whether he’s 3D printing ceramics or learning to read braille, Lee is interested in communication beyond visuals, looking, so to speak, at what’s possible through the lenses of immigration, community, and accessibility.

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Rick Griffith

Designer, Educator, Writer / By

Rick Griffith is a British-West-Indian designer, collagist, writer, educator, letterpress printer, and optimist futurist based in Denver, Colorado. He works at the intersection of programming, policy, and production. He co-founded MATTER—a design consultancy, letterpress/typography workshop, and retail bookstore which he currently runs with his partner Debra Johnson.

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Sheharazad & Meena

Artist, Creative director, Designer, Educator / By

Emergence Issue: TGD’s fifth issue features a dynamic group of 15 creators who are deeply committed to addressing systematic challenges in their communities through creativity and emerging ideologies. Buy Now Reflecting The Great Discontent’s commitment to accessibility—in all forms, including language—this interview with Sheharazad (Pezeshkpour) Fleming and Meena Khalili was translated in the print edition …

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Kamilah Rashied

Artist, Educator, Producer / By

Emergence Issue: TGD’s fifth issue features a dynamic group of 15 creators who are deeply committed to addressing systematic challenges in their communities through creativity and emerging ideologies. Buy Now What would excite you to talk about today?   Human potential. Possibility. That’s always made me happy, even as a kid. When other little girls …

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Gary Taxali

Artist, Educator, Illustrator, Recommended / By

Gary Taxali’s body of work has influenced many artists and illustrators over the years, and the imprint of his distinctive aesthetic has touched everything from children’s books and toys, to album covers, men’s fashion accessories, and even 25¢ coins for the Royal Canadian Mint. Here, he recalls childhood days spent in Toronto’s Little India, and the impact both Bollywood “bad guys” and Hindustani classical have had on his work; why he’s always felt like he was born in the wrong era; and how he’s channelled his lifelong love of the classics into a successful, decades-long career as an artist, illustrator, and educator.

Zach Lieberman

Artist, Educator, Programmer / By

New media artist and programmer, Zach Lieberman, fell in love with coding during the early days of the web, but he wasn’t exactly sure how to turn his newfound interest into a career. Here, he reflects on his path, including the people who believed in him early on. He also talks about his desire to build community through cofounding openFrameworks and The School for Poetic Computation, his belief that technology should always be in service of the idea, and why we should embrace the gift of curiosity in ourselves and others.

John Gall

Artist, Designer, Educator / By

John Gall, designer, artist, author, teacher, and creative director at Abrams, recalls his early years, discovering graphic design while studying architecture, his first job in New York, finding his niche in books, and why creativity is a continual exploration.

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