Screenprinted poster displaying the full set of 45 pictograms

Short publication of images and symbols combined with data on gun violence in the United States.

All pictograms:

  • 01:
    Normalisation

  • 02:
    Accidents with Children

  • 03:
    Public Opinion

  • 04:
    Citizen Militia

  • 05:
    Gun Lobby

  • 06:
    Manufacturing

  • 07:
    Suppression of Data/Scientific Study

  • 08:
    Black Market Sale

  • 09:
    Gang Violence

  • 10:
    Media Depiction

  • 11:
    Fully-Automatic

  • 12:
    Guns on Planes

  • 13:
    Nationalism

  • 14:
    Open Carry

  • 15:
    Police Brutality

  • 16:
    Unarmed Black Men

  • 17:
    Military

  • 18:
    PTSD

  • 19:
    Background Checks

  • 20:
    Home-Grown Terror

  • 21:
    Foreign Terror

  • 22:
    Concealed Carry

  • 23:
    Don't Tread on Me

  • 24:
    Frontier

  • 25:
    Hunting

  • 26:
    Hand-Guns

  • 27:
    Femicide

  • 28:
    Public Discourse

  • 29:
    Guns in Schools

  • 30:
    Gun Show

  • 31:
    Mental Illness

  • 32:
    Semi-Automatic: AR-15

  • 33:
    Propaganda

  • 34:
    Mass Shootings

  • 35:
    NRA

  • 36:
    2nd Amendment

  • 37:
    Fetishism

  • 38:
    Politicians

  • 39:
    Homocide

  • 40:
    Alienation

  • 41:
    Accidental Discharge

  • 42:
    Thoughts & Prayers

  • 43:
    Commercialization

  • 44:
    Hunting Rifle

  • 45:
    Suicide

2017

5th semester Information Design
The Basel School of Design
Basel, Switzerland

Kill or Be Killed

A set of 45 pictograms were designed, to illustrate the American gun-violence debate for an uninformed viewer. Humor and irony expose different sides and oddities of the issue. But accurate statistical information helped lead to the final representations.
  These pictograms and information were applied to a short informational publication. Ads, news coverage, and other pictures of gun culture accompany the information, to present a broader picture of the situation.