The influence of American urban street style with its fashion, music and hairstyling is almost immediately felt in places as far away as Shanghai, Sydney and Dar Es Salaam. Virtual design consultancies are now a common practice. Designers anywhere on the planet are collaborating on various design projects in real time using the Internet. Through the digital communications revolution of the last decade, African and African-American culture along with Asian and Hispanic and many others, have been exposed to more people in the last 10 years than ever before. Multicultural Web sites abound.
Classrooms directly interact with cultural resources practically anywhere in the world.
Whole museums have been coded for digital entree. This new direct access to new cultures, products and thinking is unfiltered through the culturally biased lens of those who traditionally controlled the means of information production and dissemination. OBD is a national professional association of industrial, interior, fashion and graphic designers. She holds a degree in architecture from Howard University and is founder and principal of Stallworth Design Studios.