Alfred! A 16-page broadsheet newspaper for my grandfatherâs 100th birthday. It tells the story of his life in a breezy 30,000 words. The text is synthesized from 18+ hours of interviews with Al conducted by his friends and family from 2016 to 2024. I transcribed the interviews, edited them together, designed the paper and made some maps.
My entire family helped in one way or another, but I had a lot of help from @goldfished , who scanned photos, helped with the photo editing, and took new frames for the project. The cover photograph is by @andrewsoutham , who also contributed interview transcripts and a huge number of photographs he took of Al over the years.
The display face is Respira by @sharp_type . Printed in New York City by @lincoprinting .
From here, space, water, sky, and morsels of the world that was here before it all began â these dominate. The city, magnificent still, inevitable, but less overpowering, waits for one to return, renewed.
Days Afield on Staten Island
Island scenes: Crookeâs Point, Blood Root Valley, the ferryboat John J. Marchi, Fort Wadsworth, the Farm Colony, the Harbor House, Travis and Freshkills Park
Inside The Times: today we relaunched the @nytimes front-of-book, and after 5 years, finally gave it a name. Beautiful refresh and page design by @sarahgephart .
Each dot represents one person who has died of Covid-19 in the United States.
Extraordinary wraparound front page design by @carrielynnemifsud . Dot density map by Jeremy White.
