To Dress a Wound (2026)
Filmmaker Jenna Hanchard approached me to collaborate on creating a brand system for her short film series Hysteric Hystories. The first part, To Dress a Wound, centers Black girl grief, rage, and daydreams, examining the emotional weight Black women and femmes carry under racial capitalism and patriarchy, tracing how these histories live within the body while imagining space for release, healing, and expansion.
When choosing the typography for the project, it was important to echo the film’s intentions so I wanted to include the work of a Black type designer. I did some research and we settled on the typeface OS Korhogo by Ivorian artist and graphic designer O’Plérou Grebet.
The typeface Korhogo pays tribute to the city of Korhogo in Côte d’Ivoire and its Senufo Culture. It combines elements of serif and sans letterforms, and has cursive features in some of its lowercase letters. The characters are sharp, highly contrasted, and have harmonious curved details. I customized the typeface with an unsteady outline to match the aesthetic we were building for the film.
Poster design
Opening credits
"Salt filled my lungs and we slept
under bloody wooden ships forever…"
