<I>THINK</I>
date: label: Date
content: 2018
name: label: Designed by
content: Gail Anderson, American, born 1962
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 poster designed by Gail Anderson with a white background and black text and graphics. The poster is an almost square white space with the word “THINK” in extremely large block letters that fills the page. There is a thick black border that runs around the margin of the page. The letters of “Think” touch the margin either at the top, bottom, or side of each letter. At the top left corner in the white space between the top of the ‘T’ and the border is small black text that reads “I don’t even.” In the bottom right corner of the poster in the white space under the letter ‘N’ is small black text that reads “of you as black.” The back of the poster is blank.
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Activism
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Design
label: Topic
content: Graphic design
label: Topic
content: Race relations
setName: label: See more items in
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: 2020.11.13
objectType: label: Type
content: posters
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Gail Anderson
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)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 33 × 36 in. (83.8 × 91.4 cm)