Associate Professor, Graphic Design
Briar Levit spent her early career in publishing as Art Director of Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture magazine as well as an independent book designer. Her self-initiated publications, Into the Brambles and Portland Companion Walks, are walking books that challenge the existing hiking guide genre.
More recently, Levit’s feature-length documentary Graphic Means: A History of Graphic Design Production (2017), which follows design production from manual to digital methods, established an obsession with design history—particularly aspects not in the canon. She is currently collaborating on The People’s Graphic Design Archive with Louise Sandhaus and Brockett Horne, as well as editing a book of essays, entitled Baseline Shift: Untold Stories of Women in Graphic Design History.
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