Pinback button with a Black Designers Matter slogan: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A pinback button with the slogan, Black Designers Matter, designed by Little Wing Lee. The round pinback button is primarily black and features, thin, centered, white text that reads [BLACK / DESIGNERS / MATTER]. The back of the button is silver tone with a pin closure at the top center. Printed bold white text along one edge reads [BLACK FOLK IN DESIGN].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2016
• Manufactured by: Unidentified
• Designed by: Little Wing Lee
• Subject of: Black Folks in Design, American, founded 2017
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: ink on paper (fiber product) with plastic and metal
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 2 3/16 × 2 3/16 × 3/8 in. (5.6 × 5.6 × 0.9 cm)
• Dimensions: Diameter: 2 3/16 in. (5.6 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: 2023.36.2
• 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

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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.