Provoking Type / Spring 2026 (5-week course)
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Start a New Project with Firebrand
Schessa & Marvin at Black Autonomy Book Fair
Los Angeles Public Library / June 7, 2025
Listen: “Parable of the Talents” Cypher w. Schessa Garbutt, Ashley Blakeney, & Tyree Boyd-Pates
Octavia’s Solstice 2025
June 22 / 2:00-6:00 PM / South Pasadena
TIME AND ITS TRAVELERS VOL. 001
Listen Now: Conversation & Reading
w. Schessa Garbutt + Ajani Brannum
Reverberations: Lineages in Design History (Mar. 4 - May 3, NYC)
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Time and Its Travelers
Vol. 001
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“Meeting the Moment”
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RECENT WORK
Design case studies & client work
Start a New Project with Firebrand
Speaker Stories w/ Schessa
Women Talk Design
Type Electives Lecture by Schessa Garbutt
Watch: Designing with Criticality & Love
Listen: Adobe Wireframe — Latinx Therapy
Schessa Garbutt (Firebrand) and Ellen Bennet (Hedley & Bennet) Help Latinx Therapy Founder Refresh Her Brand
Visit the Type West Class of 2021 website
Thumbelena Display by Schessa
Watch the Graduation Video
Support our writing + a local WOC-owned bookshop!
Order “The Black Experience in Design”
Watch: Type Thursday LA Presentations & Crits
Letterform Archive Interview
Read: The Black Experience in Graphic Design: 1968 and 2020
SF Design Week Talk