Designed to be red : Native American & Indigenous graphic works / Brian M. Johnson (Monacan Indian Nation) ; Heidi K. Brandow (Diné, Kanaka Maoli), editor ; in conversation with Dr. Jessica Moore Harjo (Otoe-Missouria, Osage, Pawnee, and Sac & Fox Nations), Monique Ortman (Cherokee Nation), Jackson Polys (Tlingit), Sadie Red Wing (Spirit Lake Dakota/Cheyenne River Lakota), Kathleen Sleboda (Nlaka'pamux/Coldwater Indian Band), Leo Vicenti (Jicarilla Apache Nation).

Main entry:

Johnson, Brian (Designer), author, interviewer.

Title & Author:

Publication:

New York, NY : Delmonico/D.A.P., 2026.
©2026

Description:

239 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Designed to be red : Native American & Indigenous graphic works -- Graphic works. Turtle Island's sovereign systems -- Language and print -- Resistance and activism -- Indigenous joy -- A conversation with Native designers -- Call to action.

Summary:

"The first publication dedicated to Indigenous typography, poster design, lettering and graphic arts across the Americas. Design history has a problem. Native American and Indigenous peoples have been making decisions about form, function, communication and meaning for millennia--and the canon has looked right through them. Mythmakers and marketing teams have long used graphic design to tell stories about Native Americans, First Nations, Métis, Alaska Natives and other Indigenous peoples rather than with them, creating reductive and harmful representations of a living, vibrant and varied group of people. Yet Native graphic art has a rich history that shows that its practitioners are innovators who have created dynamic, subversive and optimistic work. Modern graphic expressions such as posters, digital fonts and even stenciled cars intertwine with traditional Indigenous pottery, weavings and paintings. Through examples spanning nearly two centuries and representing over 80 tribes and nations, Designed to Be Red reveals and celebrates design histories that have always existed alongside, despite and in resistance to dominant colonial narratives, illustrating the full spectrum of Native life."-- Publisher's description.

ISBN:

1636812112
9781636812113

Subject:

Graphic arts America Catalogs.
Graphic design (Typography) America Catalogs.
Posters America Catalogs.
Lettering America Catalogs.
Indigenous art America Catalogs.
Indian art America Catalogs.
Art Indigenous influences.
Indian artists America.
Arts graphiques Amérique Catalogues.
Affiches Amérique Catalogues.
Lettrage Amérique Catalogues.
Art autochtone Amérique Catalogues.
Art précolombien Amérique Catalogues.
Artistes des Peuples autochtones Amérique.
Graphic arts
Graphic design (Typography)
Indian art
Indian artists
Indigenous art
Lettering
Posters
America

Form/genre:

interviews.
Catalogs
Interviews

Added entries:

Brandow, Heidi K., editor.
Harjo, Jessica Moore, interviewee.
Ortman, Monique, interviewee.
Polys, Jackson, 1976- interviewee.
Red Wing, Sadie, interviewee.
Sleboda, Kathleen, interviewee.
Vicenti, Leo, interviewee.

Native American & Indigenous graphic works

Holdings:

Location: Library main 327973
Call No.: 327973
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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