Insights 2024 Design Lecture Series: Leila Taylor, Brooklyn Public Library Creative Director

As creative director of the Brooklyn Public Library since 2015, Leila Taylor collaborates across multiple publics in one of the nation’s largest library systems. Recent projects include Books Unbanned, a nationwide initiative combating book bans, The People’s Ball, the anti-Met Gala,
The Book of HOV an exhibition on the life of Shawn “JAY-Z” Carter, created by Roc Nation in partnership with Brooklyn Public Library.
She is also the author of Darkly: Black History and America’s Gothic Soul, equal parts Afrogoth memoir and trenchant analysis of the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade and the cultural work of mourning.
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Expand your understanding of graphic design with the Insights Design Lecture Series, presenting leading designers and design thinkers from around the world. Exploring the theme of collaboration through a variety of perspectives and approaches, this year’s Insights pairs four in-person lectures with expanded programs that range from virtual workshops to articles, special projects, and more.
This year’s in-person lineup features innovators in type and motion Dia Studio, Brooklyn Public Library Creative Director Leila Taylor, long-term collaborators Studio Lin, as well as the Twin Cities Zine Fest, whose members have championed sustainable self-publishing and the DIY ethic in our local community for 20 years.
Expanded programming includes workshops from the Feminist Center for Creative Work in Los Angeles’s Co-Conspirator Press, Chicago’s Half Letter Press/Temporary Services, as well as a series of original redesigns of objects guest edited by David Gissen, author of The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access.
Copresented by the Walker Art Center and AIGA Minnesota.