“Representation within film and media for marginalized communities is a conversation that needs to occur in spaces that can help dismantle the inequity. This year’s ByDesign festival serves as a platform to reclaim space and reimage structures for communities of color. The festival will showcase artists whose work and overall being challenge social constructs. These individuals and groups are reweaving and redesigning the foundations for which communities of color represent themselves.”
– Mia Harrison, Festival Director

Every year, ByDesign brings together a diversity of people, ideas and creative visions to explore intersections of design and the moving image. The program celebrates artists who combine forms and disciplines to transform our visual culture. We are excited to be joined this year by Mia Harrison in the role of festival director; the programming that we’ve done together focuses on social accountability and increasing representation for communities and artists of color.

ByDesign ’18 features an array of guest artists, documentaries, and presentations that illuminate the roots, currents and future of design in motion.