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A collage featuring the year “2010” in large, pale yellow numerals against a black background. Three US one-dollar bills are layered across the centre of the numbers.

Swiss zine highlights the many times The Simpsons has predicted the future

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Date
30 August 2016

Guillaume Pavia and Emma Chapuis’ Secret Museum of Mankind is a magazine resulting from a project at their school ERACOM, in Lausanne, Switzerland. This featured issue is devoted entirely to The Simpsons: ”The project brief was to make a magazine based on weird things like conspiracies and we chose to consider predictions within Simpsons episodes. There are many occasions where it has predicted the future”, says Guillaume.

In the edition they picked nine episodes, with moments including the demise of Siegfried & Roy, corruption at Fifa and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. The magazine is printed on fittingly canary paper, and set in two contrasting fonts, one referencing retro computer graphics and the other in a classical lecture style.

A yellow ballot paper from a US election. The left side lists candidates for the Republican, Democratic, Green and Libertarian parties, including “Mitt Romney” and “Barack Obama”. On the right, a grid of names is filled with repetitive handwritten marks for “Romney” and “Barack”.
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A split image of Donald Trump. The left side is a yellow-toned photograph of him speaking, while the right side is a stylised illustration of his profile against a US flag.
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Guillaume Pavia & Emma Chapuis: Secret Museum of Mankind

An open book with yellow pages shows a side-by-side comparison of animation frames. On the left, a series of colourful illustrations depict Donald Trump waving to a crowd; on the right, the corresponding live-action film frames are shown in muted tones.
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Guillaume Pavia & Emma Chapuis: Secret Museum of Mankind

An open book with yellow pages. The left page features a series of illustrations showing a tiger in various poses, while the right page contains a block of French text and a small, dark photograph of a tiger.
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Guillaume Pavia & Emma Chapuis: Secret Museum of Mankind

A two-page spread from a book. The left page shows a small photograph of Steve Jobs holding a laptop against a dark background, while the right page features the name “STEVE” in large, bold black type on a yellow background.
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A book cover with a black background and bold, yellow outlined typography. The text reads “MOMS” written vertically from top to bottom.
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A black book cover features a numbered list of global events written in gold French text. At the bottom, a small white caption reads “The Secret Museum of Mankind/issue n°13/Mars 2016”.
A double-page spread with a yellow background and large, black typographic text that reads “PARTITO ROSSE”. In the centre, two frames from The Simpsons show Bart and other children looking shocked.
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Billie Muraben

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Billie studied illustration at Camberwell College of Art before completing an MA in Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art. She joined It’s Nice That as a Freelance Editorial Assistant back in January 2015 and continues to work with us on a freelance basis.

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