Digital Product
1 shown / 1 totalCompanion site at wedreaminblack.com carrying the report into screen. Masthead sets the title in the same compressed display sans, navy on white, with the city buttons (Atlanta, Durham) directly below. A row of cut-out worker portraits anchors the homepage as a single editorial frame. Each city has its own page surfacing its volume, narratives, and policy recommendations.
Content & Editorial
3 shown / 3 totalTwo-volume hardback policy report: Pay, Professionalism, & Respect, vol. 1 Atlanta and vol. 2 Durham. Cover sets the title in condensed display sans, navy on cream, with an orange spine and a two-person worker portrait below. Spreads alternate between editorial profiles of named workers and data spreads from the 101-person Durham citywide survey. The form choice was the argument: this is a magazine, not a brief.
Long-form editorial treatment for the worker profiles. The Lurika Wynn spread is the through-line: a full-bleed eye-level portrait against soft black, paired with a standfirst in compressed display sans, body type set in two columns, and an orange callout panel pulling the headline quote. The same template ran for every named worker across both volumes.
- feature · Empowerment, Professionalizing, Unapologetically Black, Comfort and Care, Community. Used as the creative brief and the lens for every spread, image selection, and pull quote.Five design themes
Information-design language for the survey results. Flat orange fills against the cream stock, mono numerals at scale, custom line icons for survey categories. The Durham citywide survey spread (101 respondents, annual-income chart, age and experience bars, type-of-work icons) runs as a single editorial spread instead of an appendix table.
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