Born online in September 2002, Speak Up is an author-based, reader-supported community devoted to graphic design open to conversation and dialog. Its focus is to find design relevance within our field as well as outside of it. In the everyday.

Relevant to the practice of creating communicative elements; of thinking about audiences, context and what has come before; of processing loose ideas and assessing disparate materials into tangible forms; of endless hours spent in front of a glowing monitor, or scribbling on a blank journal; of the quest for flawless and innovative execution. Further establishing the significance and relevance of those of us practicing under the umbrella of graphic design. Through interviews, discussions and reviews and supported by openness, honesty and immediacy, with an emphasis on open dialog and shaped by its authors, readers and random contributors, Speak Up has grown into one of the most dynamic and trusted communities within graphic design.