Desorden Mag
DISCIPLINE
Publication Design
Experimental zine design based on a NYT interactive audio article exploring Dominican car music culture.
In 2021, The New York Times published "When a Minivan Becomes a Music Machine," a detailed 12-minute audio article accompanying a written account by reporter Isabelia Herrera as she investigated the boisterous, unapologetic, and competitive culture of Dominican car shows.
Listening purely to the article, I designed this zine as a response, exploring how an audio about audio can express itself in various visual forms. The final zine, entitled Desorden (Spanish for "uproar, a disturbance, a commotion"), includes treatments that evoke the same volume, excitement, and modular expansion that come from their inspiration in booming minivans.
The magazine is named Desorden, meaning a "disturbance, uproar, or commotion." The primary typeface used in the design is Sharp Type's Trois Mille, "designed to take up as much surface area as possible with measured constraint. Massive, fast and full of energy," evocative of the frenzy of the music.
Street posters were designed with phrases from groups, both in Spanish and English, capturing the spirit and the message for all to experience as territory marking signs.
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ALL WORK © JUSTIN WONG DESIGN and rights reserved UNLESS otherwise NOTED.