Magnet with a Black Futurism 2019 slogan
date: label: Date
content: 2019
name: label: Manufactured by
content: Unidentified
label: Designed by
content: Rania Karamallah, Sudanese American
label: Designed by
content: Qusai Akoud, Sudanese American
label: Distributed by
content: Harvard Graduate School of Design African American Student Union, founded 2012
notes: label: Description
content: A magnet with the slogan, Black Futurism 2019, designed by Rania Karamallah and Qusai Akoud for the conference, Black Futurism: Creating a More Equitable Future, held October 4-6, 2019 at Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The flat rubber magnet features thick light pink text that reads [Black / Futurism / 2019], set against an orange background. The magnet shape roughly contours the outline of the text with thin orange border around the exposed edges of the letters and numbers. The back of the magnet is plain brown.
place: label: Place collected
content: Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Activism
label: Topic
content: Advertising
label: Topic
content: Black Enterprise
label: Topic
content: Business
label: Topic
content: Graphic design
label: Topic
content: Identity
label: Topic
content: Professional organizations
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
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 Michelle Joan Wilkinson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2023.36.1
objectType: label: Type
content: magnets
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Qusai Akoud and Rania Karamallah
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on rubber with magnetite
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 1 7/8 × 3 15/16 (4.8 × 10 × 0.1 cm)