TDC Awards
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Category
Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Annual ID
TDC69_TY101T
Redaction brings together a complex set of contents, contexts, and materials. An artist (Titus Kaphar) and his paintings, a poet (Reginald Dwayne Betts) and his poetry, and their collaborative series of screen prints (Redaction) that examines the issue of money bail in the United States, where people who are arrested, but unable to afford bail, remain incarcerated even though they have been neither tried nor convicted. The prints, originally exhibited at MoMA PS1, combine Titus’s etched portraits of incarcerated women and men with Dwayne’s poetry derived from selectively redacted legal documents, typeset in a project-specific “Redaction” font designed by Forest Young with Jeremy Mickel (MCKL Type). “Redaction as a tool of revelation,” as Dwayne describes it. While the book has hardcover elements—cloth, board, foilstamping, head and tail bands, cover overhang—it’s actually flexibound and thus designated “softcover.” For very good reason: in many prisons, hardcover books are still considered contraband.
2023 Awards
Total Points: 20
TDC Winner
Credits
Design Firm
Practise / Auckland
Creative Director
Forest Young
James Goggin
Artist
Titus Kaphar
Design Assistant
Amanda Barrow
Poet
Reginald Dwayne Betts
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