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Design Category
Book design, 2003
Design firm
Pleasure (Brooklyn, New York)
Collection
(2004) 50 Books/50 Covers of 2003
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The Young Lords were one of the most provocative and controversial organizations to arise during the late 1960s. Inspired by organizations like the Black Panthers, the Lords became the most respected and powerful voice of Puerto Rican empowerment in the country.
This memoir is about one man’s passionate and inspiring story of the Puerto Rican struggle for equality and independence. The image and type were Xeroxed, silkscreened by Matt McGuinness and then scanned as art.
“This design clearly borrows images from hand-printed, raw posters of the past—and it’s done very well to convey the time. Simple, strong type.” Isabel Warren-Lynch