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JMarcus Sewell


 

For my major project I decided to make graphics. I used the article Black Print: African American

Writings as my main source. I felt myself enjoying this article and just the unique type of pull we

had for the future. The meaning behind the graphic is to use a picture of the past to know the

current thing of today’s time is. So, in the picture you will see social media sights, that will

represent what the new black magazines would be like today. Although newspapers and magazines

are still used in current time technology and social media have a much larger pull-on spreading

information to learn, to gossip, or even to stay in the loop of what is going on in a certain area or

time. Which was stated in the article black print that the newspaper very used to be beneficial for

the African Americans at the time to help stay up to date. Just showing a side of if there is a way

there is a will because it was no technology, so they had to use the next best resource to

accomplish these tasks. That is where the background comes in, I used a brown crumbled paper to

represent an actual piece of paper to represent newspapers. Next, the bold letters say black print

in the letter black. I used that as symbolism for strength African American’s may have been bent or

folded but they have never broken, and I feel the black lettering represented power. Lastly you have

polaroid frames with the social media sights in it. This as I said will represent a new form of black

print. These apps are some of the most used apps in the world and they can deliver new

information to be learned, news articles, or just as simple as keeping up with a favorite show or

musical artist you can do that. Then for my second collage I added a sequence of pictures with

different black activists that played a major role in today’s time. You will see some black inventors,

black public speakers, and a picture of different hbcus. I added that because as a business major it

just inspired me more to want to create new things and be a positive figure like the rest of the black

activist on the collage.

Source Used:

Black Print - Online exhibitions across Cornell University Library


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