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a newspaper placed among bushes, back side up: yellow text crosses over into a fragmented, collaged red texture. front cover/first page of a newspaper, with text set in yellow and black atop a black and red collaged image. text reads, 'NOSTALGIA LOOP — FREE POSTER ENCLOSED — THE GOOD OLD DAYS & CONTEXTLESS NOSTALGIA — I CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT NOSTALGIA', in bold, thick fonts. open spread of a newspaper, with headings in yellow and the background photo in red. most prominent text reads, 'THE GOOD OLD DAYS: NOSTALGIA'S POLITICAL APPEAL'. open spread of a newspaper with narrow columns of text, imagery in grayscale, and pull quotes in red. open spread of a newspaper with narrow columns of text, imagery in grayscale, and pull quotes in red. a colorful red, yellow, and black spread of a newspaper, with a title page to the left and the bottom half of an enclosed poster on the right. open spread of a newspaper with narrow columns of text, imagery in grayscale, and pull quotes in red. back cover/final page of a newspaper, with yellow text running vertically across the page and a fragmented, collaged red texture in the background.

Nostalgia Loop is a newspaper containing two essays about the role of nostalgia in American and global politics. Pulling from the visual language of vintage kids food graphics, the design of the broadsheet seeks to establish a sense of comfort and outmoded longing for a past so familiar in television commercials. However, as the reader progresses, the orderly two-column layout is interrupted by an enclosed poster that asks, how complacent are we willing to be, steeped in this nostalgia?

With a front cover referencing the densely packed layout of celebrity tabloids and subheadings set in an austere and narrow serif, the newspaper strives to evoke my personal ambivalence towards this tendency to romanticize the past.

Fall 2021

13.8 × 19.7"