Privileged
Mediocrity

DESIGN DIRECTION AND CONCEPT — CALEB CAIN MARCUS
PUBLISHER — HAJE CANTZ
ARTIST — KRIS GRAVES
WRITER — JOHN EDWIN MASON, DIANA McCLURE

We designed a dustjacket that wraps the book with a feeling of aristocracy and privilege from golden capital letters.

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Ida, our custom designed typeface is used for the titles in the central section of the book. Modeled after the pamphlet, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All its Phases, published in 1892 and written by the civil rights activist and journalist Ida B. Wells with a letter by Fredrick Douglass.

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Kris Graves reveals the living history of racism and elitism in the United States.

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Privileged Mediocrity has solo shows at Wright State University and Aurora Photo Center, with press including National Geographic and Ebony Magazine. 

MoMA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cincinnati Art Museum, Stanford, Harvard and the British Library have collected Privileged Mediocrity. 

Recognition— 
Society of Typographic Arts, Winner