Create an editorial piece for a chapter of a banned book.

I selected Animal Farm by George Orwell. The book was written by Orwell in an allegorical stye as a critique of totalitarianism.
I focused on the polemic and allegorical style of the author and emphasise the viewpoint that the author was trying to communicate by means of expressive type.

I wanted to make the outcome of such regimes and the allegory of the novel as clear as possible as this fitted with Orwell's rules for writing which emphasised simplicity and clarity. He wanted his writing to be engaging and clear to all readers and I wanted to take this a step further with typography.

I chose chapter 7. Here the windmill sits unfinished, the animals are subjected to famine, purges and brainwashing by Squealer. I felt that this had the main failings of such regimes that Orwell wanted to communicate.

The general visual style of the book was derived from Samizdat publishing. This was an underground publishing style that was used to share and communicate information and literature that had been censored in the USSR. I felt that the raw and rugged style of Samizdat visually set the tone of the reality on the farm and represented the historical censorship of the book. More importantly, due to the historical context, the typographic style has become a symbol of opposing tyranny which was Orwell’s main aim with animal farm. I subtly contrasted this visual style with constructivist colours and typefaces to further highlight what the book was an allegory towards.