We Took the Streets
Pleasure, Brooklyn, New York, 2003
Description
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.
Juror Notes
“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
Collections:
50 Books | 50 Covers of 2003
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book cover
Credits
- Design firm
- Pleasure
- Art directors
- Kevin Brainard, Henry Sene Yee
- Jacket designer
- Kevin Brainard
- Photographer
- Catherine Ursillo/Getty Images
- Author
- Miguel “Mickey” Melendez
- Editor
- Julia Pastore
- Publisher
- St. Martin’s Press
- Trim size
- 5.75 x 8.625”
- Typeface
- Helvetica
- Book type
- Literature and nonfiction
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