Emory Douglas

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‘As, not for’: The critique goes on

Issue 100, Summer 2020

Feature

‘As, Not For: Dethroning Our Absolutes’ is an itinerant exhibition of work by black designers whose legacy has been neglected for too long

Hippie shake-up

Issue 94, Summer 2017

Review

What do Victor Moscoso’s psychedelic music posters, Harley Davidson’s Captain America chopper, the film Easy…

Raw and radical

Issue 86, Autumn 2013

Review

The ‘underground press’ died out more than 40 years ago. Yet it lives on, thanks…

Recent blog posts about Emory Douglas

Books received #57

8 April 2024

Three titles: Smetnje u prijemu slike from Croatia; Charlene Prempeh’s Now You See Me!; and New Rules Next Week: Corita Kent’s Legacy through the Eyes of Twenty Artists and Writers
In the latest ‘books received’ post Eye takes a brief look at three titles: a…

The Panther experience

5 June 2023

New York’s Poster House explores the graphics at the heart of the Black Power movement. Robert Newman reports

‘Black Power to Black People’ is a powerful, inspirational collection of important cultural and political work …

Great display in Harlem

21 March 2018
Design history, Graphic design, Magazines, Photography, Posters, Visual culture

Inspiring exhibitions at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture illustrate the dynamic power of graphic design. By Robert Newman
If, like me, you’ve been both inspired and entertained by the cultural moment that the…

Treasure trove of graphic resistance

22 January 2009
Design history, Graphic design, Posters, Visual culture

Black Panther: Emory Douglas and the Art of Revolution
What better time to see an exhibition of work by Emory Douglas, the official artist…