His contributions include designs for Rolling Stone, Esquire, The New Republic, Fast Company, Reader's Digest, Foreign Affairs, the Los Angeles Times, the Houston Chronicle and the website Bloomberg.com.

[2] Roger Black's first position as a publication art director was at the alternative weekly LA, edited by Karl Fleming and funded by Max Palevsky.

During this period he also oversaw design for the launches of Fast Company and Smart Money magazines, redesigned the San Francisco Examiner and consulted with weekly publisher Metro Newspapers.

Black was an early adopter of desktop publishing and subsequently, the World Wide Web, designing sites for MSNBC, the Discovery Channel, and drugstore.com in the mid-90s.

[13] “Roger Black is one of our industry’s titans, a visionary and one who has made golden and elegant any project he has ever touched,” fellow designer Mario Garcia said.