Growing up in Seale, Alabama as a creative Black Queer kid, Jon Key imagined himself as a professional artist and designer. But in lecture halls and critiques in art school, he struggled to see and learn about people who intersected with his identity — the stories and artifacts that reflected him.

Jon started asking himself questions: What did it mean to be a graphic designer with his point of view? What did it mean to be a Black graphic designer? A Queer graphic designer? Someone from the South? Could his identity be communicated through a poster or a book? How could identity be archived in a design canon that has consistently erased contributions by designers who were not white, straight, and male?

In Black, Queer, & Untold, acclaimed designer and artist Jon Key delves into these questions and manifests a book he (and so many others) needed when they were coming up. Black, Queer & Untold pays tribute to the incredible designers, artists, and people who came before.  Jon offers these stories an enduring, reverential stage - and in doing so, gifts us a book that immediately takes its place among the creative arts canon.

Author: Jon Key
Publisher: Levine Querido
Pages: 448pp
Size: 7.75 x 10
Notes: hardcover, color
Release Date: November 19, 2024
ISBN: 978-1646143764