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This project really brought about a new experience. As it was a first time for me to design and make a zine from scratch, and also dealing with InDesign, which I had never even accessed before. Another obstacle that I was facing was to what did I actually want to put into my Zine.

Shirley initially said to just make the Zine about all of my past work in 2D, and I guess it would’ve been a lot easier to just work with that as I wouldn’t have needed to create and illustrate anything else. I figured to put every single one of my projects into the Zine, so consulted Shirley about the layout of the project.

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She provided this really good layout guide of what my Zine should look like.

I went on to see how I should frame each of my projects. I mostly just researched different Zine examples, and there were many examples in Pinterest.

BUT, I honestly felt that I could do a lot better than that, and that my Zine might not be very interesting if it’s just about my work from the previous 2D projects. Also, it was pretty hard to have a continuous narrative or idea throughout the Zine, as my previous works didn’t exactly have much link between them.

THUS, the idea of doing a Zine about Corgis came to mind! And instead of just putting pictures, I thought why not illustrate every corgi picture in the Zine.

A good practice indeed!

Then I went on searching for what exactly I should put into the Zine about Corgis, and I noticed people are always looking at how the Corgis are all so short and stubby, very much focused on its outlook. So what better way to appreciate the Corgi breed, than to make a Zine about the facts of Corgis! I went on to search more facts about corgis, and filter out the facts which I could illustrate better.

 

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The process of creating the different typographic portraits was definitely a tough one, as my idea slowly keeps changing while at the same time I kept thinking of better ideas that I could work on.

The first idea, Weight Consciousness.

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The idea for the weighing didn’t seem that it’d work that well. I tried clipping the image onto text in photoshop, but it looked really plain and did not really stand out that much.

 

The second idea, Superhero.

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The idea of implementing spiderman for my superhero was one that I wanted to stick with. I started with searching for a font that suit the spiderman theme. After which, I searched for a good quality suit texture of spiderman that I can use and put into the text that I use. And to also include a subtle addition of a spiderweb in the composition.

The first picture shows one of the ideas I tried, and thats the font that I’m probably going to work with. I consulted again with prof. Shirley and she gave the idea of making the spiderman logo less obvious, and to show more texture of the spiderman suit.

 

The next idea is Soccer Player. 

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Initially I thought this idea would work, but it turned out pretty hard to continue. I tried finding many different soccer balls, and its textures and patterns to put in the the text. The first picture was when I tried converting the text into 3D shapes while including the pattern of a soccer ball onto it. But it looked kind of weird and definitely too bright. The second one I tried was to make it more 2D, and I tried using the ESPN logo font as the font for my name as well. It still didn’t seem to work that well, and it felt like something was missing.

 

The next idea was Finding My Way.

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For this idea, I had the whole idea for the maze already sketched out, as i’ve shown in my previous post. So all I had to do was to find a good pattern that I could work with and that would make the maze more believable and realistic. I choose the above texture of walls for my maze.

 

For my next idea, the Comic Book Artist.

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The comic book artist idea, I went with only showing the speech bubble of the old school pop art style comics. Initially I tried finding fonts of comic books or pop art style fonts, but it felt very unnatural, not really much like a comic, as shown in the first image above. The next thing I thought of was to make the font from scratch and drawing it out instead. It came out a lot better than a font I found on the internet. After consulting with prof. Shirley, she also asked me to try and include the pop art style of having the dotted or half-toned effect on the words itself. To make it seem even more so like and old school pop art style comic.

 

Another idea I came up with was, I am a Mahjong Tile.

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This last idea came to me quite suddenly, and also while I was playing mahjong. There are characters in all the mahjong tiles itself too, so why not include characters or letters of my name into each individual tile! So I took a picture of the tiles, one that would be easier to edit and move the images. I got blank tile which I could easily add in the strokes and patterns of each tile.

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These are the 3 different tile patterns from the mahjong set that I came up with. All forming my name after I edited and changed the strokes for each individual tile.

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Idea 1: Friends? They come and go.

You watch as the years go by, and the friends you have leave you one by one.

To the extent that you keep things to yourself, even things like how you found out you’re losing your sense of sight gradually as the days past.

You feel alone, you think you’re alone. All until the day you fully lose your eyesight.

But what you thought, it was wrong. There were people around that actually cared and watched over you everyday. The closest friends that you never noticed, that you pushed away thinking that no one cared. But they stayed.

 

Idea 2: Soccer Ball Mockumentary

  • Buying the ball at the shop
    1. The ball being happy, “YAY, HELLO, NEW OWNER!!”
    2. Bringing home all excited
  • Owner seems excited about the ball
    1. Plays with the ball everywhere you go
  • Brings the ball to many different matches
    1. Starts comparing the ball to others, amazed at how good the others look
    2. Ball starts wearing out
  • Ball starts to feel that it looks pretty ugly, wondering what it should do
    1. To leave the owner? Or to try to find ways to look better for the owner
  • Wherever the ball goes with the owner, it meets different kinds of ball of different sports, asking them what to do
    1. Maybe, the ball explains what their sports go through, either being very proud of what they’re doing, or immediately telling them NEVER try it out
    2. Either be amazed or completely ignore the opinions of others
  • In the end, choosing not to leave and staying with the owner

 

Maybe somewhere in-between the owner misplaces the ball? And that’s how it goes on the adventure to meet the other sports.

In the end finding its way back to its owner.

OR

In the end the ball gets punctured, flattened and recycled.

The narrator is either the ball itself OR someone telling the story.

 

Idea 3: A Documentary about Dance

Initial idea is to show the different genres of dance. But might be a little too messy.

Second concept:

  • A specific friend and his dance class/crew/group.
  • Interview a selected few and ask a few questions.
    1. Mainly questions involving why they choose to dance
    2. Is it more of a hobby or career?
    3. What made brought about the passion to dance?
  • Film them dancing and practicing as a group
    1. AND individually
  • While interviewing, show a small panel of their dance moves/practice
  • End with a final performance
  • OR if they need, a way to promote their dance at the end