March is African American History Month, so the project to create a design has been assigned to me. This year the committee wanted the theme to revolve around the burial grounds of slaves here in New York, but also have something to do with Jason deCaires Taylor’s underwater slave sculptures. I decided to do an illustration by combining imagery inspired by wax statues in the museum by the memorial in the city, of a mother and daughter and African American symbology in an abstract composition. After quite some refinement I was happy with the result, but my director felt something was still missing. All the designers came together to come up with a solution. It was the department photographer who had an interesting idea. He used my illustration and combined it with a high resolution photo of the underwater sculptures and added some nice typography. In the end it this turned out to be a collaborative project with some nice results and everyone was happy.