Zach Frazier

Author of "TKTKTK – on White Supremacy and Anti-Black Racism in Graphic Design"

January 10, 2022

Zach is currently Oklahoma State University's Visiting Assistant Professor of Graphic Design. They enjoy interests in bookmaking, layout, new media, d.e.i. work, community arts, and interdisciplinary design. Their research and creative practice involves the use of the critical race method of counter-storytelling in order to uplift and celebrate historically minoritized narratives.

This publication seeks to interrogate white supremacy as foundational to the discipline and of graphic design. Counter-storytelling as derived from Critical Race Theory (CRT) is used in order to uplift and honor the Black experience in graphic design. In a discipline which continuously chooses to dismiss, obscure, and even erase Black histories, "TKTKTK" demonstrates how we can more readily identify, critique, and combat the systemic, racist oppression embedded within a discipline.

Collage, implemented in a liberatory fashion, is used as the primary visual device in this text. Handwriting is used in order to strengthen voice, and to humanize the subject matter. Counter-storytelling, synthesized through grounded theory allows us to speak truth against systemic injustice.

"TKTKTK" means more to come.

URL: https://library-dep.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2022-honorees/zach-frazier

Last Updated: 11 January 2022