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Benbrahim, D. (2024) Teaching As An Outlier in the US-South, in Revealing, Recording, Reflecting: Graphic Women from Southwest Asia and North Africa, eds. Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares, Yasmine Nachabe Taan, Bahia Shehab, Soukeina Hachem, Khatt Books
Interview (2024), in Revealing, Recording, Reflecting: Graphic Women from Southwest Asia and North Africa, eds. Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares, Yasmine Nachabe Taan, Bahia Shehab, Soukeina Hachem, Khatt Books
Interview (2024) Teaching Design History, with Saki Mafundikwa, Ramon Tejada and Tasheka Arcenaux-Sutton, edited by Briar Levit, in What It Means to be a Designer Today (2024), AIGA Eye On Design, Princeton Architectural Press.
Benbrahim, D. (2024) Hello Departures in Imperfect Index, eds. Abbie Vickress and Laura Parke, Sold Out Publishing
Benbrahim, D., Slone, R., (2024) Case Study, Arsaga’s Coffee in Working with Design Clients eds. Meaghan Dee and Jessica Mehary, Bloomsbury Publishing.
Benbrahim, D. Maione, L., (2024). Connecting and Collaborating with Students on Graphic Design Histories, Thinking Through Graphic Design History: Challenging the Canon, edited by Aggie Toppins, Bloomsbury Publishing.
Benbrahim, D. (2023). Woven in oral history: an incomplete taxonomy of Amazigh symbols, Centered, edited by Kaleena Sales, Princeton Architectural Press
Benbrahim, D. (2023). On Design Histories Woven in Patriarchy, Feminist Designer, edited by Alison Place, MIT Press.
Benbrahim, D., Gibboney, R., Hairston Doughty, A., McMahn, B.,(2022). Collective dialogues on motherhood for feminist futures, in Lockton, D., Lenzi, S., Hekkert, P., Oak, A., Sádaba, J., Lloyd, P. (eds.), Conference proceedings, DRS2022: Bilbao, 27 June - 3 July, Bilbao, Spain.
Benbrahim, D. Bjorn, K. (2021). Mama-ing (2nd ed., vol. 10). Matera: Visual Ethnography.
Benbrahim, D. (2021). Moroccan Design Stories, with Shape and Soul, Beyond The Bauhaus, AIGA Dec.
Benbrahim, D. (2021). Orientalist Posters on Morocco, a Call for Repair, Design Repository.
Benbrahim, D. (2021). Type specimen Contribution, Type Specimens: A Visual History of Typesetting and Printing written by Dori Griffin
Benbrahim, D. (2021). Double-blind peer reviewed case study, Co-designing Meaningful Dialogues on Sexual Harassment, Temes de Disseny #37
Period glyph contribution to the Periods on Periods project by Rethink Canada, periodsforperiods.com
Benbrahim, D. (2021). Review of Brando Arabic on Typographical’s Annual
Benbrahim, D. (2020). A Biased Typographical Collection of Tangier, Our Morocco, edited by Lucas M. Peters, A Journey Beyond Travel.
Benbrahim, D. (2021). What does a feminist graphic design history in the United States look like? Part 1–4, Alphabettes
Benbrahim, D. (2021). Photograph, Jaes, Type of the Day, Type on Earth
Benbrahim, D. (2015). Illustration, Chaos, Risha Zine 001
2025: SFF $2000 Grant
2023: Type Electives Semi-Bold Scholarship, Display Type Design
2023: AIGA 365 A Year in Design, Social Design
2022: $10000 towards a DEI project, Walmart
2022: Design Writing Fellowship, Writing Space
2021: Feminist Future(s) Design Hackathon
2021: Against the Grain, design history fellowship
2021: A16 Design Award 2021, Student Award
2021: A16 Design Award 2021, Editorial Design
2021: A16 Design Award 2021, DEI Doing the Work
2020: Calvin A. VanderWerd Award for Excellence in teaching
2020: $400 UF Research
2020: $400 College of the Art
2020: $200 School of Art + Art History
2020: $350 Graduate Student Council Grant
2019: Art+AH Director’s Award
2019: Harold Garde Award
2019: UF College of the Arts Outstanding Merit Award
2018: UF College of the Arts Outstanding Merit Award
2018: Phi Kappa Phi member
2018: Grinter Fellowship
2017: Grinter Fellowship
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Gold Regional viral film / Digital
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Emerald best use of social media / Media
Renault Kadjar — Master Your Success
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I see the classroom as a living organism that needs to be inspired and nourished by co-creating, with the students, conditions that promote a constellar and horizontal learning experience. This living lab is a feminist prototype to frame meaningful investigations, mutually learn from each other, and empower all to find a voice as independent leaders, transdisciplinary collaborators, and system thinkers.
first students who changed my life
Courses Taught
Graphic Design 3, University of Connecticut, Seniors
Co-Facilitator of Design History, Hot Topics
With Briar Levit, we co-created and are co-facilitating participatory events that connect the past to the present in order to contribute to a pluralistic and conscious future of design. This experimental space, Design History, Hot Topics, is meant for students, faculty, and anyone curious about design history around the world—it is an invitation to dig deeper in design histories beyond the classroom.
Co-Facilitator of Seeking Plural Narratives
What do we teach? What do we leave out? How are students contributors of knowledge and leaders in society? How might we encourage design students to engage in inquiry-based research practices? What does an inclusive design history look like? In what ways does this research become a public resource for the community? Seeking Plural Narratives is a student experiment led by Lisa Maione and myself, that attempts to answer these questions. Research partners investigate, challenge, create and tell an engaging alternate narrative to the Eurocentric design and typographic cultures.
We discussed the process of this initiative at the AtypI 2020 conference.
Students compiled a book with their research that can be purchased on Lulu. The book received three awards:
A16 Design Award 2021, Student Award
A16 Design Award 2021, Editorial Design
A16 Design Award 2021, DEI Doing the Work