zine process; yishun

The process for this project was quite an excruciating one as I totally scrapped off my idea almost 3 days final submission and did something outside my comfort zone.

Below are some snapshots of my previous designs.

The reason why I decided to redo was that I felt that there isn’t a main focus in my zine. While I knew I wanted to do a zine about the colours of the buildings in yishun, I felt my previous zine didn’t bring out this idea as much I wanted.

Hence, I did more research to discover more ideas and concept on how to improve my zine which shown below.

I was reading a fashion magazine one day and I saw a mood board that the magazine did. It was a sudden thought but I decided to come up with a mood board too as I wanted the audience to know more about the colours I used in my zine.

Below are some mockups I did during the process:

There were some deliberation with the cover page as I wanted something that will suit my theme better initially. However, after asking for my friends’ opinions, they thought that the first cover was nicer. Hence I decided to go with the first one but tweaking it abit to conform the theme.

The result is as shown below.

After much struggle, I managed to come up with something that I am satisfied with.

Zine Presentation

义顺 / Yì shùn / Nee Soon / யீஷூன்

 

Yishun has a large population of up to 200000 people, comprising of many subdivisions within the town.

 

Yishun was part of territories inhabited by the indigenous nomadic boat-dwellers known as Orang Seletar – descendants of the orang laut or “sea people” who lived in boats and made a living as fishermen.

In January 2016, Yishun was designated as the first “dementia-friendly” town due to its large elderly population. Hence, in my final zine, I would like to show the transformation of Yishun from a kampong to what it is today.

To-do list: