Colette Gaiter
Colette Gaiter is a Professor in the Departments of Africana Studies and Art & Design at the University of Delaware. Since 2005, she has written about art and design, specializing in the work of former Black Panther artist Emory Douglas.
Advertising and marketing images help define the prevailing mythology of any culture. This book showcases the product design of mid-to-late twentieth-century consumer electronic sound components and the graphic design that helped market these now nostalgic artifacts.
What makes the book groundbreaking is the attention paid to the always complicated-by-race stories behind the successes. For every Black designer whose work is presented here, Prempeh makes us wonder how many were rejected, discouraged, or harassed out of the design professions.
