Briar Levit is a Professor of Graphic Design at Portland State University in Oregon, USA. Levit’s feature-length documentary, Graphic Means: A History of Graphic Design Production, tells the story of how production technologies and workflows informed graphic design from the analog mid-century to the Digital Revolution at the end of the 20th century. She edited Baseline Shift: Untold Stories of Women in Graphic Design History (2021), which includes the research of 19 scholars including herself. Currently, Levit co-directs The People’s Graphic Design Archive, a crowd-sourced digital archive with an aim to help create more inclusive and participatory design histories.