this is a (loose) manual on a method that graphic designer zoë pulley likes to refer to as surfacing.

it's a method that synthesizes narrative through the use of surfaces such as textiles, paper, web & video to reveal the spectacularly ordinary parts of Black life within a growing design practice.

a method zoë (currently) practices in three (evolving) steps:
. unlayering and piecing together stuff (rememory)
. acknowledgment of ancestry through stuff-making (kin)
. consciousness of oneself and the place / time / space in which the work is being disseminated (hypervisibility)

this is a manual that profiles a (current) design practice of a Black female maker

a Black female maker that continues to amalgamate, respond-to and learn-from.

one who recognizes that they are still growing — that their views expressed in this text will shift, evolve or change with time.

Designed and published by zoë pulley, 2023
Printed in a limited edition of 20 copies

Softcover with applied metallic silver stickers, [520 pages], full color digital, 8 × 10.5 inches