Second Amendment Shorts
Description: Tylenol Babies: Selective Outrage — A stark blackletter warning slams against a white backdrop: “If Tylenol is bad for children, wait ’til you hear about Assault Rifles.” The gothic weight of the font carries history’s gravitas, framing a bitter truth—America frets over phantom risks while ignoring the epidemic of gun violence. The Tylenol scare becomes a diversion, a politicized scapegoat, while assault rifles—responsible for countless child deaths—remain protected and glorified. It’s not design for aesthetics, but resistance: a poster, a protest, a mirror held to America’s selective outrage.
Description: A Republic, If You Can Keep it - famous Ben Franklin quote on T-Shirts and gifts. The response is attributed to Ben Franklin—at the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, when queried as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation. “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?” “A Republic, if you can keep it.”
Description: Founded in October 1966 in Oakland, California by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, the Black Panther Party for Self Defense (BPP) became the most famous black power organization of the late 1960s. Newton and Seale met in 1965 at Merritt College, where they were exposed to a burgeoning wave of Black Nationalism, inspired in part by the Afro-American Association, established by Don Warden in 1962. While the organization tends to be thought of as being heavily male, 66% of the membership was female, something that this Sister of The Revolution design stands as a reminder of.
