Creative promise.WHAT A SUPERB, SMART ISSUE COVERING THE INFLUENCE of America's top black designers. Many of the people you featured are pushing the profession in new directions that others will soon follow. While your article focused on the contributions of men and women in industrial, automotive, and environmental design, it overlooked the increasingly important role young black people play in graphic design, another discipline where black craftspeople crafts·people pl.n. People who practice a craft; artisans. go unnoticed even when they are the emerging leaders. The following are two you should not miss for your next design feature: Bobby Martin is the director of creative services at Jazz at Lincoln Center Jazz at Lincoln Center is a constituent company of the Lincoln Center performing arts organization, whose performing arts complex, Frederick P. Rose Hall, is located at 60th Street and Broadway in New York City, slightly south of the main Lincoln Center campus and directly . He is an emerging and powerful voice in the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. creative community. His work on NYC NYC abbr. New York City NYC New York City 2012--the city's Olympic Games effort committee--as well as his award-winning campaign for the Abyssinian Baptist Church The Abyssinian Baptist Church is among the most famous of the many churches in Harlem, New York City. The church traces its roots to 1808, when black parishioners left the First Baptist Church of New York in protest over racially segregated seating. in Harlem are two examples of his efforts to make an important, tangible difference. Kevin Jordan is a gifted young designer and art director. He is now at the prestigious advertising agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners in San Francisco. Smart, gifted, and ambitious, he's in the early stages of what will be an extraordinary career in communications. These are only two of the important young voices that will shape their profession throughout the next decade. I have been privileged to work with both of them over the last few years. I can't wait to see what the future holds for them. Virginia Grant, executive assistant Ogilvy & Mather New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of virginia.grant@ogilvy.com |
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