Diversity in design book publishing A project by Leonardo de Vasconcelos shows how few design books from leading publishers involve BIPOC writers and editors. Here, Vasconcelos, Gail Anderson and Adrian Shaughnessy discuss the state of publishing and the implications this has for the design ecosystem 17/03/2021 7:37 am Last month, Brazilian-born, London-based designer Leonardo de Vasconcelos launched a self-initiated data visualisation project called Judging by the Cover, which draws attention to the gap between white and BIPOC authors, editors and contributors of design books published by a selection of leading international publishing houses. The study lays out the number of design books published by these companies where authors, editors and contributors (usually additional writers who contributed essays) are found to be Black, white or of “other ethnicities”, excluding books where these details couldn’t be found.