Latest Posts from Cheyenne Newkirk

Crispy

Another one of Ayegi Archers’ notable works has to do with the non-profit organization that he co-founded known as DO or Design Objectives. With this organization, he was able to design a typeface for his client Krs Joseph that founded the software design company CRISPY. This was one of his bigger client projects that he…

Digitisation of the Ndyuka Script

Agyei Archers’ first project that I choose to focus on is his variable font project for Google which is going to focus on a creole language that is based in Suriname. He did in-depth research for this project about linguistics and the language in general and was able to design and code a typeface system…

Agyei Archer

Agyei Archer is a young graphic designer from Trinidad and Tobago that attended the University of Trinidad and Tobago. He also was a part of the Designing Fonts program offered at the Cooper Union. He’s been in the industry for about 15 years and has worked with many large-scale companies like Google, RISD, and the…

African American Tropes

     The movie and comic character Heimdall from the Marvel universe is a very good example of the “magical negro” trope that popular in current media. The magical negro trope is defined by a black (sometimes elder) side character that is wise and often leads the white protagonist on a journey of fulfillment. These…