“We Will Not Rest In Peace” borrows its name from a protest chant and poster series created by ACT UP in the 1980s. With this brazen message in mind, the poster chronicles some of the most significant protest art of the AIDS crisis, elucidating them further with a timeline of pertinent events.

Researched and designed over four weeks, the poster draws typographic and compositional influence from many of the items it catalogues. Much of the challenge of this project was delicately structuring large groupings of text while staying faithful to the language of protest. This resulted in the split composition, which creates a poster-within-a-poster effect, allowing space for both the aggressive, dissenting title while not compromising typographic nuance.

In one additional week following the completion of the poster, I created an accompanying motion teaser. It brings focus to the poster's timeline, underscoring the immense scale of tragedy that colored the AIDS crisis. It also uses the split composition of the poster to recontexualize some of the featured works, bringing an editorial spin to the informational project.