In 1945, before Jackie Robinson played Major League baseball, or Marian Anderson sang at the Metropolitan Opera, Georg Olden, the grandson of a slave, took a job with CBS. There, as head of the network's division of on-air promotions at the dawn of television, Olden pioneered the field of broadcast graphics. … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: Black Graphic Designers
Georg Olden
Tuesday Open Thread: Black Industrial Designers
Graphic Design is a subset of the Industrial Design family. Also known as communication design, it is the art and practice of planning and projecting ideas and experiences with visual and textual content. The form of the communication can be physical or virtual, and may include images, words, or graphic forms. The experience can take place in an instant or over a long period of … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: Black Industrial Designers