A now-complete several-years-long research and display project of the life and influence of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. In this project, Sarah Kissell, Graphic Design graduate of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design / MCAD does some great justice to the legacy of one of history’s most influential first ladies. View the documentation book below and read more about the project.

And while you’re at it, be sure to visit Kissell’s portfolio site at http://puremagenta.com/ for your eyes to behold what a super-swanky design portfolio looks like. Super-purply.

STILL REMAINS®
THE IMMORTAL CYCLE OF AN ICON: JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS
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Catalog

A celebration of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ birth as an icon through the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Still Remains examines the iconography of November 22nd, 1963 through the cycle of life/death/birth — preserving the moment when Jackie and her pink suit ‘shaped the shift’ in definitive American, gender and fashion culture.

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The interior and exterior design decisions of this large-format catalog are based upon a formal and contextual inversion of the body bag. More specifically, my intentions were captured throughout the pacing of the book; first providing a historical background, then through the documentation of “Shaping the Shift” where we see Jackie’s immediate influence on culture through 1962-1964, and to conclude, a transition into contemporary fashion essays, theories, symbolic metaphors, and side-by-side positioned photographs.

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Additional Information

Format: 11.75″ x 17.75″, 119 pages. Series 1 of 1.
Materials: cyanotype silk cover, hand sewn binding, handset gold taping.