TomTor’s Black Clouds was an experimental design book based on the invasion of the Khmer Rouge (the red army) into Cambodia. Using letterpress and copy machine, these pages broke all the rules and discipline of design that I learned from my academic days. This book later inspired me to work on “1975”.

An estimated 2.7 million people died in Cambodia from 1975-1979. I was lucky to survive. Everyday I thank God for giving me a second chance at life. This poster is my way of expressing and honoring the thousands of Khmer people who died or were executed in the rice fields. I decided to make this poster as minimal as possible which symbolized this by placing bullets as part of the rice seeds that blossom and letting the poster speak for itself.