a visual timeline of chinese protests 30 years apart

The Tiananmen protests of 1989 and its violent extinguishing remains the most treacherous cover up undertaken by the CCP. Thirty years on, history threatens to repeat itself as Hong Kong undergoes months of societal disorder spurned by the proposition of a controversial extradition bill. 89/19: The Old Cannot Kill the Young Forever is a media campaign that communicates the leading up to both events, illuminating the goals the protesters sought to achieve and remembering the government crackdowns that ensued.

A bound bilingual timeline of events annotates emotional on-site photos with monumental typography to visually convey the escalating tensions of each individual movement, accompanied by a dual approach to visualizing censorship’s evolution from print erasure to corrupted data. The bound work is encased in a traditional slip-cover when distributed domestically but smuggled in a duplicatable flash-disk digital format when exported to the PRC itself, where it would be considered contraband.