Description: Shiraz Abdullahi Gallab is a designer, publisher, and educator living in Providence.
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I am a designer, publisher, and learner ✸ who was born but not raised in Khartoum , Sudan . My interests include language, form, and specificity. I am also interested in Black studies, web-based media, and popular culture.
I am an assistant professor at Rhode Island School of Design, where I teach courses on typography, voice, gathering, and process-oriented methodologies. I studied at the University of Chicago, Maryland Institute College of Art, and Cranbrook Academy of Art, and I previously taught at California College of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Purchase College, and the University of Illinois at Chicago.
From 2018 to 2020, I was an in-house book designer at the University of Chicago Press , where I designed the second edition of Crusade for Justice , by Ida B. Wells, Myself and My Aims , by Kurt Schwitters, Keats’s Odes , by Anahid Nersessian, and several other books. I continue to design materials in collaboration with Chicago and other publishers & institutions.