Rick Griffith

Rick Griffith
Born	1969 London, UK
Occupation	Graphic Designer

Ricardo "Rick" Griffith (born 1969) is a British graphic designer and master letterpress printmaker of West Indian descent.^[1][2][3] One of Griffith's best-known contributions to letterpress printmaking is annotation, and his most famed work is the poster “Introductory Ethic for Designers.”^[4][5][6][7] Griffith was PRINT Magazine's first Artist-in-Residence.^[4] He owns and operates MATTER, ^[8][9] a design studio, typography laboratory, and design bookstore, which was the first Black-owned bookstore in Colorado.^[7][10] Griffith founded the Black Astronaut Research Project (BLARP.org).^[11][12] As a deisgner, art director, master letterpress printmaker, writer, curator, educator, lecturer, and activist, Griffith works to create and disseminate graphics geared towards dismantling white supremacy and racism in the interest of reparative justice.^{[13][12][14][15][16]}

He is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, USA, where he was the City Commissioner for Public Art and Culture.^[17][18]