CLIQUE Design Document, Part III
The purpose of this document was to disseminate the techniques behind CLIQUE’s graphic, interior, and literary design. It explains several key points of CLIQUE, implying that there are already subliminal messages planted nationwide. After a brief paragraph the effect required of CLIQUE design—to induce paranoia &cetera—the document launches into a history of the formula for AGENT ORANGE, the main color associated with CLIQUE. In fact, this document is the first time “AGENT ORANGE” is used; until then, the color had been referred to as “the color of pain.”
Notable extra-textual features include hand-scrawled notes, presumably from the designers who went mad reading this document, and angry red splashes of blood. Key names and data have been censored out, government-style, with permanent marker.
CLIQUE Design Document, excerpt.
