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Mizé
10/17/22
[Posters]



Overview

An iterative poster project that was generated in conversation with the New York Times article “The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers” which explores the rippling effects of Haiti’s French debt.

The final posters exist as a visual campaign to generate public intrigue. 

Specifications

[1st] iteration: Text only (exclusively text from the article)

[2nd] iteration: Image only (exlusviely from archival databases)

[3rd] iteration: Combining image and text 

Posters are designed at scale: 30 x 50”  
Design [Final Version]

  • Inspired by movie poster aesthetics with a strong title call out.

  • Subversive emphasis on aesthetics with bold sans-serif display title, contrasted by small type that must be read closely.

  • Designed with scale shifts as a core principle; a large processed image appears from afar along with the main title callout. Up close the key images become a textured orienting space for the small type that illustrates the story of Haiti’s misery. 








He used a term you hear often in Haiti — mizè.
More than poverty, it means misery.














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V1 Text Only



Text Selections


Typographic designs focused on capturing a sense
of intrique, despair, and chaos mainly through layering.















V2 Image only










Image based designs focused on the idea of history being hidden, obscured, and distorted by itself. 







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HAITI. Voodoo. 1956. Eve Arnold



Images From Public Archives


















V3 Text + Image























“We are still paying,” he said,
“and sometimes with our lives.”