The project I chose to do for my Senior Show at UW - Stout was a book on the history of opioid addiction in the United States, written, designed and illustrated by myself. I learned an incredible amount about the topic and the process of creating a book, and although it was extremely challenging to get it done in time for the show, I'm proud of the work I did. The book takes you from when opium first came to American on the Mayflower in the form of laudanum, all the way to November of 2017, when the President declared opioid addiction a National Health Emergency, but did not go farther.
At the Senior Show, I displayed these posters as talking points for myself and people stopping by. They cover OxyContin's role in the opioid epidemic of the 21st century, and the affect that it has had, and shows how addiction rates have risen over the years.
Here is a selection of pages from the book, which came out to be about 70 pages long in total.