Another project I contributed to was the 2014 Virginia Center for the Book Annual Members Project: Notions. This book form was unconventional in that it came in the form of a hat box. A statement on labor rights, the hat box contained ephemera gathered by a fallen worker in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire of 1911. The box was then passed down through her family to ultimately end up with a relative who was affected by the 2012 Tazreen Fashion factory fire. The ephemera in the box are statements on the commonalities that continue to haunt our labor industry.

I contributed a design for the "book cover" of this project. The hat box lid has an illustration that was then letterpress printed in two colors. The lid features an old singer sewing machine that stitches the title of our project in red. Below is a factory scene where hundreds of worker labor in the background. A silhouette of two women sewing can be seen in the foreground: on the right, a victorian era woman works at a treadle driven sewing machine. On the right, a woman dressed in a sari is bent over an industrial electric sewing machine. White roses crowd the sides of the whole. The whole in the middle mimics the labels that were created for the ends of sewing thread spools.