You will design and produce a small publication/booklet. Purpose and scope of the booklet will be defined by the student and described in detail via design brief and book transmittal.

To Be Real is a booklet of essays about New Queer Cinema published by The Criterion Collection. New Queer Cinema was a movement of independent queer filmmaking in the 1990s. With a range of stylistic directions and genres, New Queer Cinema captures the atmosphere and attitudes of LGBTQ+ voices from the end of the century. This movement of film is often overlooked, so this booklet was created to serve as a source of education, as well as emphasize why these films are historically and personally important. The booklet is professionally bound and contain 5 chapters, and contains 32 pages in total.

After researching and refining a collection of essays to represent the movement of New Queer Cinema, hand-drawn typography and shapes were created to reflect the independently created style of New Queer Cinema films.

InDesign, Photoshop, and After Effects

This booklet contains the following essays:

Black or Gay: Meditations on Marlon Riggs’s Tongues Untied - Lavelle Porter

https://www.aaihs.org/black-or-gay-meditations-on-marlon-riggss-tongues-untied-at-30/

Paris Is Burning: The Fire This Time - Michelle Parkerson

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6832-paris-is-burning-the-fire-this-time

Choose Death: Gregg Araki’s Apocalyptic 90s - D.M. Palmer

https://vaguevisages.com/2022/12/28/gregg-araki-essay-90s-movie-fi

Turn the Gaze Around - Michael Koresky

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6980-turn-the-gaze-around

Life in Drag - Brad Nelson

https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2016/04/22/life-in-drag/