Lee is committed to making the field of art and design more diverse and inclusive with people from diverse ethnic, cultural, social, and economic backgrounds.
Abstracts
Design After Capitalism: Transforming Design Today for an Equitable Tomorrow
Looking at the field to transcend the logics, structures, and subjectivities of capitalism—to combine design entrepreneurship with social empowerment.
The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Expression, and Reflection
An anthology centering a range of perspectives, spotlights teaching practices, research, stories, and conversations from a Black/African diasporic lens.
In the Round Series // Moving A Land Acknowledgment Statement Toward Action and Practice
This project communicates the vitality of acknowledging and learning about Native American cultures throughout the year.
Sustainable Design Pedagogy: A Fifteen-Week Case Study of Sustainable and Climate Design Methodology and Outcomes
A look at foundational systems thinking.
The Limits of Control: Nonhierarchical Modes of Making, Decentering the Designer
Exploring the creative networks between graphic designers and their collaborators — human and non-human.
Graphic Design and Authority: How the Design of Documents and Signage Creates, Endorses, and Authenticates Power Structures
Visual authority can be used to validate any endeavor.
Chicano Independent Publication Masthead Design
Made during research visits at university libraries in Texas and California, hubs of the Chicano movement.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Design: A Diachronic Investigation Into the Word ‘Design’
Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Radical Characters: Studying Graphic Design and Typography through Chinese Characters (Hanzi)
The relationship between design and culture in the Chinese and Chinese American community