Unite and Win

If there's anything we learned from the pandemic, it's that workers make the world go ‘round. Unfortunately, especially in lower wage jobs, workers are treated as anything but essential. We created some illustrations for the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee's new book, Unite and Win to show workers how they can come together and win a better workplace together. 

Client: Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee
Art Direction: Paul Zappia
Illustration: Paul Zappia, Remo Bangayan
Design: Stephen Crowe
Illustrations made with: Adobe Illustrator, Procreate

Illustration of diverse people engaging in various kinds of organizing and workplace activities, such as signing union cards, delivering packages, and waiting tables.

Full-page illustrations

With each part of the Unite and Win booklet, we created full-page illustrations to complement the section’s content.

Illustration of two people wearing aprons engaged in conversation, surrounded by profile cards with names and outlines of other people's faces.
Open book with illustrations of protest signs that read "UNITE!", "FAIR WAGES NOW," and "STRIKE" alongside a hand signing a signature, with text discussing union activities and collective action.

Forming an organizing committee

Organizing your coworkers

The organizing conversation

Escalation

Inoculation and the boss campaign

Spot Illustrations

Sprinkled throughout the book are smaller illustrations to highlight various content

Illustration allows you to transform a simple, even plain, concept like a table of contents into something that imaginative and engaging.