My ISTD submission is about celebrating the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who won the peace the prize in 1991 for her fight for human rights and democracy in Burma. She did not attend her own award ceremony because she had been placed in house arrest by the military junta in Burma in 1989. She has been in out and out of house arrest for 15 years between 1989 and 2010.

 

The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to a person who has conferred the greates benefit to mankind, but it is also awarded to laureates as a call for action. Aung San Suu Kyi is prize winner who got it as much for what she had achieved, but also as a call to action to be able to continue and to support her fight for the people of Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi's political party NLD, won the election in 2015 and now, finally her call for action might come in action, 25 years later. My publication is a typographic interpretation her speech at the Shwedagon Pagoda in 1988, which is the first and the only public speech she had prepared the text to hand. This speech is a symbol of the start of her journey, which now 28 years later just have began. This book aims to respectfully celebrate of Aung San Suu Kyi achievments and what she stands for and the 25th anniversary of her winning the Nobel Peace Prize. 

 

The typeface used is the Satyr, from Monkrom Type Foundry from Oslo. The reason this typeface was chosen was because it reflected the gravitas to Aung San Suu Kyi and the Nobel Prize, but that it is also designed in Oslo, the city where the Nobel Peace Prize is Awarded. 

 

The book is printed on G.F Smith Paper.