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The Black School × The Underground Museum: The Purple Book

An editorial-design project for The Black School × The Underground Museum, combining community-organizing text, imagery and diagrammatic information.

Project type: Editorial design · 2020
Practice / role: Designer
Source: Original 2020 three-page PDF export
From my own archive, not a Behance post.

Context & credits

Designed by me for The Black School × The Underground Museum. The Purple Book: Community Organizing is presented by The Underground Museum. It quotes writing by Saidiya Hartman and Toni Morrison, and the resource listings describe the organizations named on the page. The photographs are third-party images and were not credited in the original deliverable.

01 — The Purple Book — coverOpen full image

Purple-and-black editorial page titled The Purple Book: Community Organizing, with protest photographs, a Saidiya Hartman quotation and sections on what organizing is and why it matters. — 02 — The Purple Book — community organizingOpen full image

Page with a circular diagram of community roles such as healers, storytellers and builders, photographs, and resource listings for food justice, art and design, education and healing. — 03 — The Purple Book — roles diagram and resourcesOpen full image

Source & provenance

From my original project files. The images here are web copies; the original exports are kept unchanged in my archive.

Incorporated third-party marks, names, mockup templates and reference imagery retain their respective credits.