Brigette Brown

Brigette Brown

Brigette Brown is a writer, editor, and research development professional. She was born in raised in Santa Ana, but fell in love with Long Beach when she was studying at Cal State Long Beach and has lived in the city off-and-on ever since. She received her BA in studio art and graphic design from California State University, Long Beach and an MFA in Design Criticism from the School of Visual Arts. Though she spends a lot more time editing books, manuscripts, and grant proposals than she does writing these days, Brigette enjoys writing about the junction of race, class, urbanism, and design. You can find her published work in Surface, Disegno, The Los Angeles Review of Books, UnBeige, Architizer, and Taking the Lane.

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Insights Per Minute: Brigette Brown on Umbrellas (2014)
This is a fun little short piece (edited for audio) on the history of umbrellas! Insights Per Minute was produced by the SVA MFA Design Criticism program in a class instructed by Kurt Andersen, host of "Studio 360" and Leital Molad, senior producer of "Studio 360."

Link to Insights Per Minute: Brigette Brown on Umbrellas

At Architecture & Design Film Festival, a Look at Building Communities (2014)
If You Build It, a documentary that follows designer-activists Emily Pilloton and Matt Miller as they lead a group of high school students in rural North Carolina through a year-long design-build project, and wrapped up on a similar note, with a closing panel entitled “Hands-on, Ground-up: Community and Design/Build.”

Link to At Architecture & Design Film Festival, a Look at Building Communities

Life Hacks and the Undead: On Urban Exploration, “The Walking Dead” and “Revolution” (2013)

Link to Life Hacks and the Undead: On Urban Exploration, “The Walking Dead” and “Revolution”