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Black Industrial Designers Talk About Race and Design, Part 1

Over the weekend, ID professor Hector Silva livestreamed a Zoom meeting with black industrial designers to discuss design and race. On the call was Kevin Bethune, Founder and CCO of think tank dreams • design + life; Jasmine Kent, Run Apparel Designer for Under Armour; and Spencer Nugent, Founder of Sketch a Day.

For 90 minutes, the trio answered important and difficult questions posed by viewers. We highly recommend you watch the entire video, but we also recognize that not everyone is in a position to see it all at once. To make it easier, we’ve broken the video up into smaller chunks and titled the sections, so you can go through it piece-by-piece. (Thanks, Hector, for providing the footage.)

We’ll start with Hector explaining the purpose of the video, followed by Jasmine, Spencer and Kevin introducing themselves:

Stay tuned for Part 2.