WHY IS DESIGN WHITE
This article is old. I wonder if I could find something about the current situation.
http://www.aiga.org/why-is-graphic-design-93-percent-white-diversity
DATA USA
This data os only about USA
Source: Data USA
https://datausa.io/profile/cip/500409/
AIGA DESIGN CENSUS
The AIGA Design Census from 2016 is international. Dezeen reports about it:
“A survey of design industry demographics has found that almost three quarters of designers are white.
The 2016 Design Census revealed that 73 per cent of those surveyed identified as white, nine per cent were Hispanic, eight per cent were Asian, and three per cent were black.
The survey was undertaken by US professional organisation AIGA and tech giant Google, with the aim of highlighting the lack of diversity across the range of design disciplines.
The team polled 9,602 designers internationally, asking questions on topics including race, gender, salary, job satisfaction, as well as how much caffeine and candy they consume.”
It could be argued that some designers from developing countries could not access the census due to poor internet connections. Also I could not find how many countries were involved in the census. I would imagine that USA was better represented than other countries.
I am beginning to doubt wether graphic design really is white. Maybe the more influential international design might be so but there might be huge numbers of grass root designers from different ethnicities who have not been reached by this poll. I therefore don’t really know what to think.
ILLUSTRATING THE OTHER 