Anti-United States Death Penalty Infographic and Gallery Exhibition

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP + ILLUSTRATOR + INDESIGN

The death penalty in the United States has a long history of executing potentially innocent individuals and being disproportionately applied against people of color. With facts and data, this infographic gives readers an insight into the negative impacts of the U.S. death penalty. The infographic will be oversized and displayed at the start of a gallery exhibition and on freely distributed flyers. Visitors will receive a booklet including photographs of 39 executed victims, information regarding each of their cases, and new evidence that has emerged proving their innocence. Large photographed portraits of the 39 individuals will be exhibited individually throughout the exhibition to memorialize them. This exhibition intends to elicit outrage toward the death sentence in the U.S. and will have dimmed lighting focusing on the infographic and the 39 individual portraits.

Infographic design / editorial design / GALLERY EXHIBITION DESIGN

My Creative Process

I began by researching the use of the death penalty globally and in the United States. After this, I decided to organize this information into separate categorized facts that would make the biggest impact on my viewer to compare them. In the end, I found that focusing on the stories of those who have been murdered by the United States while most likely being innocent made the biggest impact when persuading my audience of my side on this topic. My goal with this gallery exhibition was to have each visitor spend time looking at the faces of these people who were executed and hopefully feel the same injustice that the families of these individuals faced.