For my Graphic Design final with Mary Jo Krysinski, I was asked to produce a publication that detailed an event that I had an interest in that was segmented into multiple 'points' or sections. I had immediately thought of the Therac-25 disaster, and the Chernobyl reactor disaster, as I have an interest in nuclear power and catastrophe. I settled on Chernobyl, as it has a more linear timeline, and isn't along multiple locations. I then began developing a properly organized book, settling on an accordion- style book, as the timeline would then run along the bottom, and the book could fold out to form the full timeline when opened and placed on a table, or be flipped through like a regular book.

Chernobyl obviously was a catastrophe, and people were in fact killed in harrowing ways, and I wanted to make sure that I dealt with this carefully and wasn't attempting to reduce real harm into something 'funny' or over-designed. As a result, I kept imagery exclusive to photography, colors limited, and visuals intense. I wanted to make sure that the reader was confronted directly with images that felt striking, and didn't attempt to make the disaster 'cutesy.'