American Outsider:
Our Cultural Underbelly
This hand-bound book collects stories and memoirs
from people living outside mainstream society. The project
connects different outsider communities through shared
themes of isolation, survival, and self-expression.
Rather than sensationalizing these stories, the book
focuses on how people find beauty and meaning in
the strange, hidden, and overlooked.
The design supports the narratives, letting the
content guide the pacing and structure, with extreme
scale, and overset text, across the french folds.
Fall 2024