rush@rushjackson.com


Rush Jackson is an independent graphic designer and transdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Jackson’s practice spans across art and design, operating pluralistically within modes of production such as publication design & visual identity development, as well as through independent artistic practice, working predominantly through painting, video art, performance, and site-specific installation.

Jackson has designed publications such as The New Black Vanguard (Aperture, 2019), Jonathan Lyndon Chase: Big Wash (The Fabric Workshop and Museum, 2021), Shikeith: Notes towards Becoming a Spill (Aperture, 2022), and In the Black Fantastic, (Thames & Hudson, 2022). Other notable design work includes visual identity systems made for Anacostia Community Museum,  The Center for Afrofuturist Studies, and advocacy-driven design efforts for Housing Works in New York City.

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
Central Saint Martins MA-GCD, 2022

Designer Lecture Series, MICA, 2022

Saturday Program, Cooper Union, 2022

Genius on Display, Poster House, 2021