Magnet with a Black Futurism 2019 slogan: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

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.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2019
• Manufactured by: Unidentified
• Designed by: Rania Karamallah, Sudanese American
• Designed by: Qusai Akoud, Sudanese American
• Distributed by: Harvard Graduate School of Design African American Student Union, founded 2012
• Type: magnets
• Medium: ink on rubber with magnetite
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 1 7/8 × 3 15/16 (4.8 × 10 × 0.1 cm)
• Place collected: Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Advertising
• Topic: Black Enterprise
• Topic: Business
• Topic: Graphic design
• Topic: Identity
• Topic: Professional organizations
• Object number: 2023.36.1
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Michelle Joan Wilkinson
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Sources and reuse

Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © Qusai Akoud and Rania Karamallah Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.