91 SCORSONE | DRUEDING
When Joe Scorsone and Alice Drueding were alerted to The Hurricane Poster Project by friend and fellow designer Lanny Sommese, the partners saw it as a perfect outlet for their frustrations about the government’s slow response to Hurricane Katrina.

“It’s a natural project for us, because we do posters and also because we were extremely upset about the situation in New Orleans,” says Drueding. “We really wanted to show our outrage,” Scorsone agrees. What resulted is an ironic and politically charged statement of indignation. “We said, let’s make FEMA a turtle. We wanted it to be stylized and slick to really express this organization. So we had the turtle and the typography and the water, but we just felt something was missing,” explains Scorsone. “Then we added the skulls to suggest the streets of New Orleans and all the devastation that was there,” adds Drueding. For the partners, this project is an opportunity to do some good for New Orleans. As Scorsone emphasizes, “Designers really have to get involved in social problems. I think this is a great outlet, and designers really responded to it.” by Hillary Cook