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The Portfolio of Justin Simoni
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I created some poster designs and illustrations for a local West Memphis Three benefit.
If you do not know who the West Memphis Three are, go straight to, http://wm3.org and read up:
Shortly after three eight-year-old boys were found mutilated and murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas, local newspapers stated the killers had been caught. The police assured the public that the three teenagers in custody were definitely responsible for these horrible crimes. Evidence?
The same police officers coerced an error-filled "confession" from Jessie Misskelley Jr., who is mentally handicapped. They subjected him to 12 hours of questioning without counsel or parental consent, audio-taping only two fragments totaling 46 minutes. Jessie recanted it that evening, but it was too late— Misskelley, Jason Baldwin and Damien Echols were all arrested on June 3, 1993, and convicted of murder in early 1994.
Although there was no physical evidence, murder weapon, motive, or connection to the victims, the prosecution pathetically resorted to presenting black hair and clothing, heavy metal t-shirts, and Stephen King novels as proof that the boys were sacrificed in a satanic cult ritual. Unfathomably, Echols was sentenced to death, Baldwin received life without parole, and Misskelley got life plus 40.
For over 14 years, The West Memphis Three have been imprisoned for crimes they didn’t commit. Echols waits in solitary confinement for the lethal injection our tax dollars will pay for. They were all condemned by their poverty, incompetent defense, satanic panic and a rush to judgment.
Below are some free to use, downloadable designs and illustrations that you can use for your own West Memphis Three benefits, projects, etc. You do not have to ask my permission to use these files, so long as you use them for West Memphis Three activities. Simple enough.
This poster design works good when printing off of a 11" x 17" size paper and has a good margin of 1/2" on each side. It's easy enough to squish into something smaller, like 8" x 10.5" size, just by tweaking the borders. Sample text is including in the .ai and .pdf versions in hidden layers.
This illustration presents the three members of the WM3 in small photographs, being held together by three right hands.
Three color screen print postcards put together for the West Memphis Three Postcard Project
Three color screen print, 4.25" x 6" on card stock
And a whole lot of them in studio, while being printed up:
From a local benefit:
Two Color Screen Print on card stock, 11" x 17"
