The newly-opened Mangrove Design Studio is a place where artists and makers can work on creative projects such as digital media, apparel, photography, audio and more.
Last week, Youth Design Center commemorated its 10-year anniversary as a Black-led nonprofit in East Brooklyn with a ribbon-cutting for the grand opening of the Mangrove Design Studio.
YDC is an award-winning, youth-led creative agency and innovation hub — based out of the Flatbush Central Marketplace — that has provided young people with pathways to learn and develop marketable design and tech skills over the past decade.
The Mangrove Design Studio was established as part of a residency partnership between YDC and Mangrove — an open workspace and cultural development center that supports local creative producers, makers, workers and entrepreneurs of color.
The newly-opened design…
