D2 S21 P2 Zines

The project was to create a zine with a storyline using an object that was randomly assigned to us in the beginning of the semester. I was given a toothbrush as my object for this project. My inspiration for my story is about how I had a friend who had their own toothbrush at my house. We were best friends, so she slept over frequently and when we lost touch, her toothbrush remained in my bathroom. I finally had to throw it away because I knew she wasn’t coming back. My story is a tragic love story between two toothbrushes. How they meet, fall in love, get ripped apart, and then reunited in the end. I created this piece using hand drawn illustrations and photography.

I decide to create my zine book based off my object I was assigned to in the beginning of class which was a paperclip. My zine is about the daily life of a personified paperclip and how it carries out a bunch of daily functions throughout the day.

I created this zine on the subject of chewing gum. I focused on a short story that describes the life of a gumball and what it goes through from start to end. I wanted to incorporate the playfulness of the aesthetic of bubblegum by incorporating light, pastel colors. I also incorporated some textures of mark making I created with chewing gum into the illustrations. To continue this playful theme I decided to animate the gumball to be more childlike. The story follows this gumball's interactions with humans and ends in a surprising twist.

In 12 pages, create a narrative based on an object assigned at the beginning of the semester. I was assigned a broom, so for my zine I focused on the idea that a broom cleans up messes, and decided to tell that story fairly abstractly and used vivid color.

For my project I wanted to tell a story that overemphasized this growing tension between this person and their broken lightbulb. I thought the best approach for this would be to make the scene more dramatic, by having a major contrast between light and dark. As you approach the end of the story, it closes with a bright emphasis to further explain this contrast. In doing so it makes the story that much more engaging as you watch the story unfold.

For the zine we were given an item that we had to use and think about a bunch of different things about it like the history, culture, and economic uses/impacts. My item was a match so it was hard to find most of the things we had to find about it. It took a lot of researching but I was able to find as much info about it as I could. We then had to turn it into a mini story using a zine which was hard at first, but I thought outside of the box and made a children type story.

For my zine project, The Key, I showcased different keys with their individual purposes in an at-home setting. The goal of the Zine Project was to create a visual narrative of the given object and use mediums to have a better understanding of the object. The apartment key, the protagonist learns that every key is special in their own way. At the end of the zine, four keys are better than one. In accomplishing the goal, I can create a compelling narrative without words and vector illustrations.

My zine is a funny little story about a mirror demon who has a very simple weakness.

This Zine tackles the topic of the excess use of plastic in our lives as both individuals and the community. With the use of repetition and quantity, the zine uses a limited number of pictures and sketches that are repeated to convey the ideas of the excess use. Throughout, the left page shows one individuals use of plastic compared to the right page that represents how much it becomes multiplied when you bring together a communities usage.

For our second project, we created a twelve page ‘zine.’ We had to tie a story into an object related to our research map, using that as a starting point. I used the mediums of photography and vector illustration to construct a visual sequence to tell my narrative of how people meet in a coffee shop nowadays. My object was originally a coffee filter, so I used that to bring me to my location of the coffee shop. I cropped certain photos to bring the attention in more to state the obvious of what was happening in that frame and made my visual language clear by using bitmojis to tell the story on snapchat.

Create a zine to tell a story based on the object map. My object map was around a cotton swab. The object was originally culturally used by women for infant care and among other uses, became popular for cosmetics. Related to the users, I wanted to tell a story about women and their role as homemakers through the story of a girl who learns to defy her gendered role. For the execution, I wanted the images to be hand-drawn and convey the story through a cartoon-style narrative.

Create a zine to tell a story based on the object map. My object map was around a cotton swab. The object was originally culturally used by women for infant care and among other uses, became popular for cosmetics. Related to the users, I wanted to tell a story about women and their role as homemakers through the story of a girl who learns to defy her gendered role. For the execution, I wanted the images to be hand-drawn and convey the story through a cartoon-style narrative.

This project goal was to narrate a story that was related to a selected object. The story had to be represented in 12 pages book. In this project, a drinking straw search map was created to demonstrate the object (drinking straw) function. Then, a historical story of drinking straw was selected. The story of this project was about the invention of a drinking straw that Marvin Stone invented. The book was created using a photograph, photoshop, and illustration. Different techniques were used, like cropping, collaging, and layering.

For project 2, we were supposed to create a 12-page zine that tells a narrative. The narrative is supposed to be about an object we were assigned. My object was a spool of thread. I decided to use photography as the visual language for my zine. The narrative I’m telling is about the life of a spool of thread in an art store. The zine displays a series of events that the spool goes through in its daily life.

The assignment was to tell a story only using imagery. The object I had to tell a story about was a pencil. My zine is about a girl who grows up and as she's growing up, she's using different types of pencils as she advances into an artist.