5″ x 6″

Mixed media, blog

This is a little zine about succulents that hopefully strikes a balance between useful information about succulents and other fun things. There are a variety of pages including, how to care for succulents, illustrations, a comic, etc. The zine also includes a sticker sheet and seed paper tombstones in the back.

To kickstart the launch of the zine, a small launch party was held where each of the attendees received a copy of the zine and some succulent leaf cuttings to propagate. The goal is for them to grow their cuttings into adult plants so they will be able to pass off more leaf cuttings to someone else! A propagation info sheet is also included in the back so the next person has instructions on how to take care of their leaf cuttings.

Event:

Process:

Sketchbook page

Sketchbook page

Zine assembly

This second chair project is a continuation from the first. The differentiation between the second from the first is that it is more thorough in its investigation in the first three topics: MEDIA, HISTORY and TYPOLOGY. It is to be adapted into a book and posters to tease an upcoming product of a brand of which I am currently developing: Rare.

The media portion looks to examine chair in culture. The first spread is a look at chairs in some recurring or important moments in films, and television. The second spread contains eighteen different online articles from different media outlets  regarding chairs. The third spread depicts various political figures, businessmen and celebrities that have key relationships with the chair that they sit in.

For history, I created a timeline detailing different periods and styles from the Egyptians to contemporary work. It is clear and effectively demonstrates the style articulated throughout history.

In typology I montaged 160 chairs together of varying uses and designers to formulate the diverse nature of how chairs are understood.

The back of the pamphlet are brand principles and manifesto of Rare.

Rachel Tandon, January 2015

2.25” x 3”

Digitally printed

Designed for the course’s final project, this zine covers the evolution of human concept of the universe, beginning with the flat Earth theory, going through geocentrism and heliocentrism to modern day universal expansion theory, and ending with the multiverse theory. It is designed to present past theories as a platform to understanding and viewing today’s modern theories in cosmology. Through the logical progression of content, as our concept of the universe gets bigger and bigger throughout the zine, and the paring down of statements and illustrations, I hope to convey the hard to grasp concepts in an easily digestible way. The idea of the zine is also not only to educate, but to provoke thought and lead to a pause in people’s days—it is to provide a moment for readers to stop the immediacy of their lives and just sit and read and think for a while.

The zine is hand-written and illustrated, and digitally colored in Illustrator. The pages get wider as you flip through the zine, and the zine in total is about the size of a credit card.

The zine costs 15¢ to print and was distributed in the Blue Room at Brown University during dinner hours. I placed a few copies on each table and observed people’s reactions from a side booth. Overall, people had positive reactions to it, many taking the time to pause and read it fully—some even recommending it to their friends to read after they finished. Verbally, I was told it was “cute,” the “donut” illustration really helped, and people liked the intuitive widening of the pages.

I had also instructed viewers to go to the tumblr page arewerightyet.tumblr.com to critique the zine, but I didn’t receive any comments this way. I figured out how to track visits to the website, however, half way through the distribution and by the end of the night eight people had taken the time to type in the address and visit the website. Ideally, I would have been able to set up an online forum where people could comment on the project without having to log in to their personal tumblrs first (or create an account).

I really enjoyed making this zine, as well as receiving responses to it and I could see myself making it into a series, sharing other modern scientific theories in similar ways.

initial brainstorming

layout brainstorming

form prototyping

layout

more layout

finished zine

title page

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back

distribution in the Blue Room

distribution in the Blue Room

distribution in the Blue Room

distribution in the Blue Room

video still–reading it

video still–saying it’s actually worth something

video still–recommending it to friend

video still–friend picking it up to look at it

tumblr page

tumblr page visitor statistics at end of night

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T-Savvy is a zine that covers the different layer components on the iOS user interface. By understanding the components of the different layers we are able to design around a functional system.

Final zine: 7″ x 7″ in envelope

Digitally printed and hand bound, total edition of 16.

This project attempts to challenge cultural assumptions about aging by elevating individuals who celebrate all periods of life. By highlighting anecdotes about elders whose outlook and spirit are particularly positive or inspiring, I am not only creating a visual catalog of my own goals for old age, but creating a platform for further dialogue.

The zines are being mailed to important people in my life, all at different stages. The postcard, found at the end of the publication, provides a space for audience members/participants to send their thoughts back to me. Prompting questions include:

What facets of your personality or identity do you hope to carry with you throughout all stages of your life?

What pieces of advice or wisdom would you give your 22-year-old self?

Is there an older individual in your life whose actions and attitude you admire?

By the end of the process, I will have an additional catalogue of thoughts and comments about aging, which I intend to make into a second publication, building off of the feedback from critique.

Process:

Process 1: Sketches

Process 2: Sketches

Documentation of final publication:

Final publication 1

Final publication 2

Final publication 3

Final publication 4

Final publication 5

Final publication 6

Final publication 7

Final publication 8

Staged distribution:

For each project, please follow this order.

Text:

0. Project title (type on the post title section above)

1. Your Name, credit if you collaborated with others

2. Dimension, material, year

3. Project website link (if you have)

4. Project description (minimum 130 words)

Images: include captions.

1. Process (sketches, mockups, etc)

2. Final Product: consider how you can show actual experience of your zine

–Printed matter: cover and inside
–Web / App: screenshots of multiple pages
–Video: screenshots of multiple frames
–Environmental: final piece itself plus installation views

3. Distribution

–Web/ App platform: screenshots of feedback
–Event, installation: multiple views to clearly show people encountering your zine
–Staged proposal: multiple views to explain possible interactions

*This is an example of inserted media.

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