Silas Munro

Silas Munro is a designer, artist, writer, researcher, curator and surfer. He is a descendant of the Banyole people of Eastern Uganda. He founded the design studio Polymode based in Los Angeles and Raleigh. Munro is the curator and author of Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest at Letterform Archive (2022–23). He was a contributor to W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America (2018) and co-authored the first BIPOC-centered design history course, Black Design in America: African Americans and the African Diaspora in Graphic Design 19th–21st Century (2021). His design and visual art has been exhibited widely and is represented in the collections of various institutions. Munro is Founding Faculty and chair Emeritus for the MFA Program in Graphic Design at Vermont College of Fine Arts.