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The Walt Whitman Initiative is an international collective bringing together all people interested in the life and work of Walt Whitman. I had the opportunity to present a new identity design for their organization.
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Whitman celebrates the individual so I designed a fingerprint in the shape of a W. He describes how a single blade of grass represents an individual in society. Each leaf or blade of grass possesses its own distinct beauty, and together the blades form a beautiful unified whole.
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