"HARLEM ON MY MIND: CULTURAL CAPITAL OF BLACK AMERICA” REVISITED

From Steven Heller's WEEKEND HELLER column in PRINT magazine. 

"Last week, Holland Carter in The New York Times wrote a recollection of the famously and harshly criticized Metropolitan Museum of Art 1969 exhibit “Harlem On My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America.” Curated by Allon Schoener, cultural historian and organizer of exhibitions that focus on topics such as African Americans, Italian Americans, Jewish Americans and the history of the Lower East Side, it was a courageous yet politically charged, and criticized, attempt to represent the black experience in the citadel of art. Black artists were up-in-arms over the employ of a white curator and whites were offended by the catalog, which contained an essay by a 17-year-old high school student that was “laced with anti-Semitic slurs …”

"GRAPHIC DESIGN IS AN ART BROTHER!" COMEDIAN JB SMOOVE BREAKS IT DOWN ON THE BREAKFAST CLUB RADIO SHOW.

Didn't know that one of our favorite comedians, JB Smoove of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and 'The Real Husbands of Hollywood' fame, was once a graphic designer owning a t-shirt graphic design and printing shop in the 80's before getting on the stand up comedy tip! You can peep JB talking about his experience as a graphic designer on 'The Breakfast Club' and his work on 'Curb' below. Loved JB before and love him even more now!

Peace!

RANDI GLOSS’ WEARABLE ACTIVISM: HOW A T-SHIRT LINE IS STANDING UP FOR BLACK VICTIMS OF POLICE BRUTALITY

Randi Gloss’ wearable activism is a different kind of conversation starter. Read about her T-shirt designs at THE FADER

THE SUPERFLY! FOUNDRY'S WORK: MORE COPIES OF THE 'LOGOLOUNGE' BOOK 3 ARRIVED! WE'RE IN THERE!

More copies of the 'logolounge' book--number 3 in the on-going bestselling series--just arrived in the mail! We’ll be giving these to new corporate identity clients as gifts! If you design logos or need one created for your business or professional organization, the logolounge books are dope corporate identity design info resources.

We received the logolounge love treatment, appearing in book 3, for our logo design for Wyclef Jean's YClef records company. You can see the design below. A forever shout out to the Fugees! "One time!"

AIGA 2015 MEDALIST EMORY DOUGLAS

So great to see Emory Douglas, the legendary artist and Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party, getting love from the AIGA (the U.S.'s largest professional design association)! The revolution will be illustrated people! You can read about Emory Douglas and his recognition here.