A page from my sketchbook / Political Typography.
In 1986 a plume of radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl disaster settled upon the small industrial town of Pripyat. The townspeople were not informed of the extreme danger, and for two days, they went about their daily lives. For two whole days, while the effects of radiation set in, their government told them “Everything is Ok”.
Later, citizens were hastily evacuated, and more than twenty years later Pripyat sits eerily abandoned. The government still denies the severity of the situation, while we know it as one of the worst nuclear disasters of our time.