Serena Cabido


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RISD Alumni,
BFA Graphic Design
2020 








RISD Alumni,
BFA Graphic Design 2020

WAR IN WORDS

TYPE OF WORK:
Book Design

DATE:
Winter Session 2019

DIMENSIONS:
7” x 7”
SONG LIST IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE:

  • Blowin’ in the Wind by Bob Dylan, 1963
  • What Are You Fighting For? by Phil Ochs, 1963
  • Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation by Tom Paxton, 1965
  • Backlash Blues by Nina Simone, 1967
  • Alice’s Restaurant Massacree by Arlo Guthrie, 1967
  • I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die by Country Joe and the Fish, 1967
  • Saigon Bride by Joan Baez, 1967
  • Waist Deep in the Big Muddy by Pete Seeger, 1967
  • Handsome Johnny by Richie Haves, 1967
  • 2+2=? by The Bob Seger System, 1968
  • Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater Revival, 1969
  • Give Peace a Chance by John Lennon, 1969
  • Vietnam by Jimmy Cliff, 1970
  • War by Edwin Starr, 1970
  • What’s Going On by Marvin Gaye, 1971
  • Imagine by John Lennon, 1971
  • Billy Don’t Be a Hero by Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods, 1974



POEM LIST IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE:
  • Interview with a Guy Named Fawkes, U.S. Army from Unaccustomed Mercy: Soldier-poets of the Vietnam War, edited by Daniel Ehrhart.
  • The Sound of Guns by Gerald McCarthy, 1977.
  • Saigon Bride by Nina Duschek.
  • All the Dead Soldiers by Thomas McGraith, 1967.


This project was made as a project for the Cinematic Representations of the Vietnam War course, instructed by Professor David Fitzsimons. This book features songs and poems written in protest of the Vietnam War, juxtaposed with striking imagery taken during the war.

Typeface is Poynter Oldstyle Display, designed by Tobias Frere-Jones of Font Bureau. This book is hand-bound and printed on Bordon & Riley #10 Penny Sketch Bond.





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