Perspective: With Cheryl D. Miller, MS Communications Design ’85

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Meanwhile, the work continues. As an educator today, Miller urges her students, who range from young designers to seasoned design educators, to lean into their own advocacy, and to amplify Black voices—their own voices—in design history. Her words of advice to emerging designers: “Create your aesthetic and your voice and write it into the canon. In my primary class, Decolonizing Graphic Design, from a Black Perspective, I decolonize the basic 15-week history of graphic design, from my cultural lens. I’m going to teach you the canon because you need to know it. But you also need to know that there’s more to the story, and you have the story in you.”