Three guidebooks being placed through a letterbox

Clarity commissioned

Client: Referendum Commission

Services: Print design

Year: 2018-2019

For three referendums - on the termination of pregnancy, on blasphemy, and the regulation of divorce - I produced a short guidebook providing clear and accurate information on the proposed constitutional changes, which was delivered to every household in the country.

The Commission is required to ensure that its texts clearly and accurately explain complex legal issues, and do so in a conspicuously neutral way. They were typically produced in a very short timeframe, and accommodated legal advice, translation, and were subject to intense public scrutiny. Speed, accuracy and reliability are as vital to the process as design and production expertise.

The guidebook covers, and below them, two interior spreads, one showing the prosed changes to the law on the termination of pregnancy, and the other describing the present legal position on divorce and the proposed changes. Examples of the Irish versions of the Termination of Pregnancy guidebooks, and an accessible large-print version.
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