We Took the Streets
We Took the Streets
We Took the Streets

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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