Pinback button for Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign designed by Gail Anderson
date: label: Date
content: 2016
name: label: Designed by
content: Gail Anderson, American, born 1962
label: Manufactured by
content: Unidentified
label: Subject of
content: Hillary Clinton, born 1947
notes: label: Caption
content: Gail Anderson is a New York based designer and partner at Anderson Newton Design. Since 1987, Anderson has worked in the field of design at design firms, advertising agencies, and publications. Her work has received awards from major design organizations, including the Society of Publication Designers and the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA). In 2008 she received a Lifetime Achievement Medal from the AIGA. Anderson currently works as Creative Director at the School of Visual Arts Press and is on the Citizen Stamp Advisory Committee for the US Post Office. In 2013, the US Postal Service commissioned Anderson to design the commemorative stamp for the sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation. Anderson was only the second African American designer tapped to design a commemorative stamp, the first being Georg Olden who designed the Proclamation’s 100th anniversary stamp in 1963.
label: Description
content: This is a pin-back button designed for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Presidential campaign. It is a round button with an orange background with a large capital letter ‘H’ in the center. The letter ‘H’ is outlined in blue and filled in with a bright red color. An arrow with a white shaft and pale blue head emerges from the left-hand leg and acts as the crossbar to the right-hand leg of the ‘H’. The arrow has blue fletching feathers at the base. At the top margin of the button is white text that reads “HILLARY IS” and at the bottom margin the text continues “JUST MY TYPE.”
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topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Activism
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content: Art
label: Topic
content: Design
label: Topic
content: Graphic design
label: Topic
content: Politics
label: Topic
content: Women
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design
label: Classification
content: Memorabilia and Ephemera - Political and Activist Ephemera
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Gail Anderson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2020.11.10
objectType: label: Type
content: buttons (information artifacts)
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © 2016 Hillary for America
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper (fiber product) on metal with plastic
label: Dimensions
content: Diameter: 1 in. (2.5 cm)