Crown & Conquer X Amazon Studios: Small Axe Anthology Newspaper

In July of 2020, I was approached by the wonderful ladies of Crown & Conquer to be the lead designer of a newspaper that they were to release in collaboration with Amazon Studios. The newspaper was to highlight the five-film series entitled Small Axe that Academy Award-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen was set to release on Amazon Prime in late November of 2020. So incredibly grateful to have been apart of this project. The newspaper was given out at exclusive drive-in showings of the movie the weekend before its release on Amazon Prime and Vanity Fair featured a full-page ad in their December 2020 issue using the color palette and type family exhibited below.

Shown below is the thinking I had behind the mood, colors, and type for the newspaper and the finished product itself. So incredibly grateful to have been apart of this project. Special thanks to Iris Yang, Shateera Israel, and Pietrina Love for choosing me and guiding me along with this project.

I put together a small identity to help organize my thoughts before going into design. This was all approved before designing the newspaper.