Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. Death is not often a cause for joy. I designed the print edition of the project, which marks the arrival of Black History Month with a special section in Sunday’s newspaper. These obituaries reanimate the legacies of the overlooked, so it was important that the design felt as joyful and respectful as the articles themselves. With that in mind, I wanted the design to render those feelings of discovery and celebration and to largely avoid the plaintive grayscale imagery that often dominates the visual vocabulary of death.

Source: New York Times February 02, 2019 20:48 UTC