Maurice Cherry is a content marketer at Fog Creek Software, a company dedicated to creating products that enable every person and every team to make thoughtful, useful software. Maurice was formerly the principal and creative director at Lunch, a multidisciplinary studio in Atlanta, GA that helped creative brands craft messages and tell stories for their targeted audiences, including fostering relationships with underrepresented communities. Maurice is a pioneering digital creator who is most well-known for the Black Weblog Awards and Revision Path Podcast.

At the beginning of his SXSW presentation, “Where Are The Black Designers”, Maurice Cherry, digital creator and podcaster, poignantly asks, “How many black designers do you know?”

Cherry highlights the disparity of black designers’ representation in design culture and community, including how black designers are generally not seen or heard in podcasts, speaker panels, or blogs.

Given this disparity in (and beyond) the design industry, this Black History Month, we wanted to give a shoutout (in alphabetical order) to 10 awesome designers whose work we love. We hope you’ll feel as inspired as we do by their stories—not only this month, but for the rest of the year, too!

Maurice has recently joined Fog Creek Software in content marketing after several years as principal and creative director at Lunch, a multidisciplinary studio in Atlanta where he developed a reputation for building strong creative brands and for fostering relationships with underrepresented communities. Maurice is also a pioneering digital creator, well-known for the Black Weblog Awards, the Web’s longest running event celebrating Black bloggers, video bloggers, and podcasters. Other projects include his award winning design podcast Revision Path, 28 Days of the Web, and The Year of Tea.

This is our last episode of Working File, at least for a little while. Linda and Maurice join Matt and Andy to go down the list of possible topics for shows that we never got to make. It’s a Working File lightning round! Thanks to all of our contributors over the past year who helped make the show a reality. ❤️

For our very first featured guest on Beyond The Locks, we bring you Maurice Cherry, a pioneering digital creator who is most well-known for the Black Weblog Awards, the Web's longest running event celebrating Black bloggers, video bloggers, and podcasters. Other projects of Maurice's include the award-winning podcast Revision Path, 28 Days of the Web, and The Year of Tea.

Maurice is also the principal and creative director at Lunch, a multidisciplinary studio in Atlanta, GA that helps creative brands craft messages and tell stories and foster relationships with underrepresented communities.

His unique perspective hits home for a perfect introduction to our new series.