On Martin Luther King Boulevard between the Essex County Historic Courthouse and the Veterans’ Courthouse, the words “ABOLISH WHITE SUPREMACY” were painted in bright yellow traffic paint from curb to curb. On Halsey Street, east of the Rutgers campus the words “ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER,” took up a City block.

The murals were painted with bright traffic paint, similar to the murals that erected across the country. The murals were designed using MARTIN by VocalType, a type foundry owned by Black designer, Tré Seals. MARTIN was inspired by remnants of the Memphis Sanitation Strike of 1968, and the signs of striking workers declaring “I AM A MAN.” The letterforms live 25 ft’ in height, and were drafted by design faculty, students and local muralists in preparation for the community painting.

I designed the typography and implementation method for the murals, articulating a collaborative system in which letters could be drafted individually by small teams.

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Newark’s Black Lives Matter Murals: A Design Process & Collaborative Action Framework.
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