Daps and Pounds is a book that celebrates dap, a salutatory gesture originating from Black Vietnam War veterans. Over the past half-century, dap has spread beyond black communities and across the globe. The book opens w/ a series of layout exercises, then gets into the history of dap, followed by a study on nonverbal communication, typographic explorations, and finally closes with an article about the future dap.

This project was started in my second semester of graduate school, before the COVID-19 pandemic, and was finished during my time in isolation from March-May of 2020. Daps and Pounds is a relic of distant and recent histories as the nature of physical touch between humans has changed right in front of our eyes.