TENDERNESS: Societal Pressures,
Forced Masculinity, & Constructed Identities


2018 // designed @ ARTCENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN
under the guidence of Brad Bartlett
Tenderness is an exploration of hegemonic masculinity in Western culture. The book follows one’s progression of a boy to a man and decodes what it really means to be a “man” in today’s society.

Through personal essays, scientific studies, interviews, and image, this book takes both a macro and micro look and at the stereotypes
put upon men.















Mark