The Designer Elevating the Present and Future of Photobooks Nontsikelelo Mutiti draws on experimental publishing and archiving to create expressive platforms for Black images and stories. Negroes and the War (1942). From Waiting Room Magazine (Creative Time and Tilton Gallery, 2014) Photobooks - February 19, 2021 Discourse around archives as a site of erasure is a persistent part of contemporary design and art practices. Using the book format to establish dominant and authoritative narratives of the historical and cultural record of entire peoples is as old as the book itself. For Zimbabwean-born designer and artist Nontsikelelo Mutiti, this fact—that the book “produces an author”—is a central entry point into publication design. With a conceptual approach informed by her background as a painter, Mutiti’s multidisciplinary design work draws on experimental publishing and archiving practices to elevate Black peoples of the past, present, and future.