Llorente's lecture with the BIPOC Design History

Master of Arts in Graphic and Web Design faculty Ana Llorente will participate in the BIPOC Design History: Incomplete Latinx Stories of Diseño Gráfico's lecture series. Llorente will be presenting In/Dependence: An Incomplete Survey of Cuban Design.

Llorente is a graphic designer and educator living and working in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Her professional work currently focuses on collaborative experiences that integrate learning and audience engagement through conceptual and critical analysis of content, context, and intent.

Cuban graphic design is complex; its breadth and depth link to politics, geography, nationalism, inventiveness, economics, and much more. This complexity, in addition to 60+ years of a communist dictatorship that continues to trigger a Cuban diaspora expanding the globe, makes it difficult to accurately and comprehensively pin what encompasses Cuban graphic design.

This lecture, an incomplete survey of Cuban design from the 1900s through today, focuses less on the aesthetics and innovative aspects of Cuban design, and more on design as a tool of oppression, resistance, and liberation.

In/dependence: An Incomplete Survey of Cuban Design
October 8, 2021
3:30–5:00 p.m. CDT

Learn More

• bipocdesignhistory.com
• In/dependence: An Incomplete Survey of Cuban Design Tickets