Digitization and Its Discontents for Jewish History

Center for Jewish History

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Pure+Applied designed and produced the book based on a talk by Anthony T. Grafton at the Center for Jewish History.

Pure+Applied designed and produced the exhibition reader Folk City: New York and the Folk Music Revival for Columbia University Press. Co-published by the Museum of the City of New York (where the exhibition itself was presented), the book was designed using images primarily from the museum’s collection. We selected the typeface “Central Avenue” for the display typography because of its hand-painted-like quality. We used the typeface “Pitch” to set the personal accounts of the people who lived during the Folk City Era. The design for the book set the graphic identity for the exhibition.

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Other Projects

ABC of It - P+A designed Milo’s car and the tollbooth (from The Phantom Tollbooth). The tollbooth doubled as a vertical display case.
The ABC of It: Why Children’s Books Matter
Memory Unearthed - A backlit photo of Ross unearthing the box of negatives that he had buried as “some record of our tragedy.” The photo is paired with a projection of some of Ross’ recovered images as well as the photographer’s own words.
Memory Unearthed: The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross
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