We the People
A Collection of Articles from the New York Times on August 30th, 2016
A publication that highlights what it meant to be an American in 2016. It is historical evidence of what Americans looked like, what they were worried about, and how they were treated. All of this during a time of extreme societal tension taking place in the months before the presidential election of 2016. An election that drastically changed the course of this nation.
The design of this publication is a reflection of said society with imagery taken from videos that relate to the subject matter and bold, punchy pull quotes that interject within the imagery and margins representing the loud and ever-present fear that has been firmly planted in each and every American since the Twin Towers plummeted to the ground in 2001. These pull quotes are paired with a classic serif typeface to underscore the traditional aspects of the United States that, in 2016, had yet to be done away with. The increasing illegibility of the imagery from article to article further emphasizes the unclear direction Americans saw the country going in. The images are halftoned on typical printer paper while the cover is screen printed on Kraft paper in order to observe the juxtaposition of fast, mass consumption and the slow, handmade quality of the past that Americans are now trying to leverage in the mass market. The collection is intimate in size, but, when the accordion book cover is sprawled out it becomes a wall, blocking out others.
