rush@rushjackson.com
Rush Jackson is a designer, artist, and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. They are the founder of Rush Jackson Studio, an independent graphic and type design studio embracing design, technology, language, and culture as interconnected sites of discovery and play. Jackson’s studio prioritizes typeface design and development, as well as design and creative direction services to a diverse range of constituents such as cultural institutions, arts organizations, publishers, artists, curators, musicians, and other cultural producers.
Notable projects include The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion (Aperture, 2019, with Mark Owens), In the Black Fantastic (Thames & Hudson, 2022), Shikeith: Notes towards Becoming a Spill (Aperture, 2022), Arielle Bobb-Willis: Keep the Kid Alive (Aperture, 2024), and Prospect Park: Photographs of a Brooklyn Oasis, 1980 to 2025 (Prestel, 2025). Jackson's work in publication design has been recognized in AIGA’s 50 Books 50 Covers 2022 competition as a “50 Books” winner.
Jackson’s work has been featured in Port, It's Nice That, AIGA’s Eye on Design, form, The Brooklyn Rail, and Philly Artblog. Jackson has been invited to speak with audiences at Central Saint Martins, Poster House Museum, Google Design Talks, Maryland Institute College of Art, and Aperture’s PhotoBook Club.
Awards
AIGA 50 Books 50 Covers 2022
AIGA 50 Books 50 Covers 2022
Press
From a Shikeith monograph to the In the Black Fantastic Book, Rush Jackson amplifies the culture at every turn, Yaya Azariah Clarke, It’s Nice That, Mar 13, 2024.
form Magazine 299: Geld, 2023
First/Last, Issue 08, 2022
Designer Rush Jackson on Making Work that Expands and Shapes the Black Cultural Lexicon, Camille Okhio, AIGA Eye on Design, 2020
High Gloss and Nuanced Selves at High Tide’s Punctual Reality, Olivia Jia, Artblog, 2018
Imperfect Tools for Navigation,
Vijay Masharani, Brooklyn Rail, 2018
Speaking
Aperture PhotoBook Club, 2024
Central Saint Martins MA-GCD, 2022
Designer Lecture Series, MICA, 2022
Saturday Program, Cooper Union, 2022
Genius on Display, Poster House, 2021