Using typography to create discourse—commenting on police brutality against people of color in the US, I explore the denotative usage of typography as a way of organizing content through a double-sided booklet poster. Furthermore, I explore the use of connotative and expressive of typography to enhance meaning and communicate messages through three-dimensional letter forms.
A history of police brutality against people of color in the United States. Represented by objective reports of police brutality from 2013–2015, contrasted with a subjective description of police brutality in the 1970s, in the form of a poem by Audre Lorde entitled, Power.
Distorted, dismantled, destroyed. What does it look like when an established system, whether it be the police or a typographic system, is warped? How far can the police force stray from its original objectives until it cannot be defined by its "protect and serve" mission statement? How much can you distort a letter form until it becomes illegible?
The letter forms spell out "Shut It Down," a phrase and ideology widely used in protests against police brutality. The metal wires represent the rigid yet distorted police system. The cardboard represents the material used for handmade signs in many protests and rallies against police brutality.
Shut it Down – Annealed Wire, Recycled Cardboard, 2015.
