Linha do Tempo do Design Graphico no Brasil Book Cover (Brazilian Graphic Design Timeline)
designed by Elaine Ramos, 2011
archived by Angie Hornback
This design won Museu de Casa Brasileira Design Award + the Jabuti Award in 2012.
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Woman Wisdom illustrated by Ned Astra, 1977. Archived by Mo Taylor.
featured in gay manifesto The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions.
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Woman Suffrage Banner from the National Woman’s Party, c. 1910
“These ‘Great Demand’ banners were used in demonstrations and rallies and at suffrage headquarters.” National American History Museum
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Woman, Always Pregnant with Dreams, poster designed by Shaghaiegh Fakharzadeh, 2013. Archived by @RoshanakKeyghobadi
پوستر
عنوان: زن , همیشه باردار آرزوها
طراح گرافیک: شقایق فخارزاده
سال: ۱۳۹۱
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“Woman at Work” print designed by Margaret Calvert after her original road signs for the UK from the 1960s, from designmuseum. org
“Not every project I’ve been involved in turns out as brilliantly as my Woman at Work print.” (ItsNiceThat)
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Onyx: Black Lesbian Newsletter, October / November 1983, illustrated by Sarita Johnson
Courtesy of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) Historical Society, San Francisco CA. glbthistory.org
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Register and Vote, 1964.
A poster encouraging people to register and vote featuring images of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner as martyrs for freedom.
From BLK HST
Archived by @marinabyocean
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Styliststics Disco event flyer designed by Straightman (aka LAVA), 1979
from National Museum of African American History and Culture
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The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes & safe houses used by enslaved people to escape to free states & Canada.
maps by Wilbur Henry Siebert & Albert Bushnell Hart, published by P. Smith
c.1898
Library of Congress
Archived by @marinabyocean
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“Day of Solidarity with the Afro-American People” poster from 1968 by Daysi Garcia
OSPAAAL created hundreds of posters in support of oppressed people, their sole goal being the decolonization of countries in the post-World War II period.
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7UP’s 1975 logo redesign by Thomas Miller.
archived by UFxDesign @ufdesigners
“Miller produced a portfolio of 1,000+ works. His diverse body of work included projects such as the design of 7-UP packaging, branding, and logo designs.”
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Party invitation for Grace and James Weldon Johnson
by Aaron Douglas
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True Advertisement
by Emmett McBain, 1968
Ad for Lorillard Tobacco Company’s True menthol cigarettes, Vince Cullers Advertising, whose work laid the groundwork for how cigarette companies and other businesses spoke to Black consumers.
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Reynold Ruffins (right), with Seymour Chwast (left) and John Alcorn (center) in the Push Pin office, 1958.
from SVA Archives
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“The Year Around Book” by Jerry Pinkney and Helen Jill Fletcher, 1965
published by McGraw-Hill / Whittlesey House
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Flyer for Grandmaster Flash from 1981 designed by Buddy Esquire (Lemoin Thompson)
“One of more than 300 flyers created in a style Thompson called ‘neo-deco’, borrowing from Art Deco to ‘class up’ jams held in rec room basements.” (eye magazine)
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“The Signifyin’ Works of Marlon Riggs traces the artistic & political evolution of a transformative filmmaker whose work is an electrifying call for liberation & an invaluable historical document.”
Cover by Hassan Rahim/12:01 w Eric Skillman
From Criterion Collection
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50: The Golden Anniversary of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture poster with art by Romare Bearden, 1975
image from Swann Galleries.
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Faith Ringgold’s “Black Light Series #6: Love Black Life,” 1969
archived by Alexis Graham
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“Anatomy of the Black Aesthetic: An Examination” poster, for an event at Lee Cultural Center in Philadelphia, 1969
Anyone know the designer? Such unique lettering.
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Speak the truth even if your voice shakes by Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.
archived by Isaac Zou
Maggie Kuhn, a social activist, offered these inspiring words. She also formed the Gray Panthers, a multi-generational advocacy group that confronts social justice issues.
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Harlem Toile de Jouy by Sheila Bridges, c. 2006
archived by Mary Banas @marybanas
National Museum of African American History & Culture
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Book Plate for Alain Locke by Aaron Douglas, c 1925
from Rauner Special Collections at Dartmouth College Library
according the entry, this book plate was in Locke’s personal copy of The New Negro (New York: Charles & Albert Boni, 1925), acquired by Dartmouth.
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“Color is a State of Mind” poster by Dorothy Hayes, 1969
Contribution ‘Black and White: A Portfolio of 40 Statements on a Single Theme’, a special issue of Print magazine
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Leich Electric Brochure, circa 1962
designed by Eugene Winslow
from Chicago Design Archive
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The Harlem Globetrotters are actually from Chicago, founded on the South Side around 1926.
Cover for performance by The Harlem Globetrotters, a basketball performance group, 1977.
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Move On Over or We'll Move On Over You, c, 1966 by The Black Panthers
from Swann Galleries:
“This poster introduced Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s new slogan at the 26 June 1966 conclusion of the March Against Fear in Jackson, MS.”
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