D421 would to thank the featured designers — Chuck Harrison, Noel Mayo, David Adjaye, Rodney Leon, and Peter Cook — for allowing us to share their success stories.  We are also excited to have introduced you to our guest contributors, Gloria Williams, Nii Commey Botchway, Atim Oton and GA Gardner, who shared their unique voices on a variety of topics relevant to the entire D421 community.

As we begin the next annual cycle towards another black history month, it is important that we all continue to share with each other those black designers who were most influential in our lives, those we simply appreciate and those we just discovered and wanted to share. If we move in these ways next year this time we can look forward to a site that is a wealth of information and to a community that is engaged in a range of conversations that further enlighten many others. So let’s keep building!

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Eric Anderson