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Imaginary Lines (Final)


Here are the final shots I took of Imaginary Lines:
POV (Process II)


These are the digital version of my intended zine. I decided to add an introduction about my POV adaption along with an abstract of The Little Prince where he was explaining about the story of the boa constrictor. Also, before every POV piece I added the title and the meaning of the illness.
Imaginary Lines (Process II)


So now that I’ve decided on my work and also illustrated them, it’s time to edit them into InDesign!
The cover page would be printed onto the paper that I did marbling on
Above the poem, I decided to leave it blank because after printing it would, I wanted to cut a hole and sew threads across the hole.
I decided to do Read more →
POV (Process)


During consultation Ina really liked my set of POV and she suggested if I could do a zine on it so I thought why not, since the works were already done, all I needed to do was to just come up with the cover page and the introductions.
I decided to do a cover page of the boa constrictor from The Read more →
Imaginary Lines (Process)


Now that I’ve decided on my topic, I started to brainstorm for the content and because my Depression piece from POV was the inspiration, I knew I wanted to include that into my zine. After much consideration I decided on 4 topics in my zine:
6 degrees of separation Depression Lovers StrangersAnd so I did a few sketches in my sketchbook just to get Read more →
Zine Final "Instruction Manual"

Who reads instruction manuals?!
I decided to work with instruction manuals after finding a whole stack of old ones that had been left on the shelf unread for years. I thought that was interesting since instruction manuals were meant to instruct users on how to use an item and thus, should Read more →


Zine: Process

I struggled a lot to figure how I’d bind the tracing papers in because the zine pages I planned out didn’t fit the typical saddle-stitch page format.
I didn’t want to perfect bind the zine because of how thin the zine is.
So, I decided that I would attach the tracing papers separately. Didn’t like the way the water Read more →
Typographic Portrait: Final


from left to right:
hello, my name is szewen and I feel lost.
hello, my name is szewen and I like animals.
hello, my name is szewen and I like to eat.
hello, my name is szewen and I like to play video games.