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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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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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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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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“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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Poster for the play “A Black Time for Black Folk,” 1970
designed by Bill Howell
from Swann Galleries
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Black woman setting type in the southern print shop, Tuskeegee and Spelman University, 1920
photograph by Lewis Hine
archived by UF x Design
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Onyx: Black Lesbian Newsletter, October/November 1983
(SF Bay Area)
Illustration by: Sarita Johnson
From the GLBT Historical Society, Periodicals Collection.
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"Black Star was the publishing arm of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, ...that existed in Detroit from about 1969 to 1972.”
“The Detroit Printing Co-op” by Danielle Aubert.
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Community Advice posters, Susan O’Malley, 2012, Letterpress
Archived by @marinabyocean
“O’Malley interviewed 100 people & asked what advice they would give their 8-year-old and 80-year-old selves. She made and exhibited posters using their words”
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Social action poster advertising Native American Week, January 26–February 3, 1973.
designer and photographer unknown.
from Wisconsin Historical Society
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Winter Magazine Cover designed by Hoda Akhlaghi, 2015, Iran
contributed by @RoshanakKeyghobadi
طراحی جلد مجله
عنوان: زمستان
طراح گرافیک: هدا اخلاقی
سال: ۱۳۹۳
ایران
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Announcement of Caribbean studio travel opportunities for Massachusetts College of Art students in the winter of 1991–1992, designed by Elizabeth Resnick. @professorelizabethresnick @massartboston
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ACT UP MINNESOTA newsletter, June 1990
Added by Queer Commune @aqueercommune
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Bring in ‘da Noise Bring in 'da Funk poster, 1995 by Paula Scher
Archived by UF x Design
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Open Studio Dress Up Party by Eliot Gordon, 2010
archived by Calee
A flyer for an open studio dress-up party at the Sexton Building in Minneapolis.
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An’ the Stars Began to Fall, 1925 by Aaron Douglas
Archived by Tianna
illustrations that addressed the experiences of African American people, and African American Heritage.”
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Check out original scholarship from Tânia Raposo (@ainat_) on French publication designer Jeanine Fricker on our blog! Pictured works are from 1950s and 60s.
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Human values in sexuality poster, October 1975
archived by Gabi Criscuolo
“Poster promoting the 5th Annual Human Sexuality Symposium to educate the Iowa State University/Ames community.”
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“We real cool” broadside, 1966
about author Gwendolyn Brooks by designer Cledie Taylor and Broadside Press in Detroit
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