This was my favorite layout from 2019. The story was challenging—a compilation of dozens of witnesses recounting Trump's wrong-doing from decades past. I knew immediately that I wanted the art to feel as grounded in historical artifacts as possible. Anything illustrative or speculative would undermine the editorial imperative. 

I began researching. I trawled every page of Getty's archival Trump images. I combed through dozens of court documents, government transcripts, and old news articles.

I was surprised by just how much I was able to dig up. I became convinced—the evidence should be the art. Normally, my team would have accomplished this through collage. But this time around, I wanted the reader to consider each piece of evidence, not glide over it as texture. 

The scanning approach was inspired by The Highline's excellent piece on preventing suicide, but I wanted to evolve the technique by overlapping papers together and creating closer interactions within the frame.  

My type choices flowed naturally out of the documents I unearthed. I restricted myself to graphic elements one could create on a typewriter and lifted the lines between the columns from standard court documents. The restraint in the type directs attention to the scans and further heightens the un-gilded, evidence-based, factual essence of the story.