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Printed zine: 5.5″ x 8.5″

digitally printed & hand-bound zine, website

Screenshots in the zine

Red Panda screenshot on website

Video games is the topic of this zine. It includes a printed zine as well as a website following the gaming adventures of two fictional brothers. They start their printed zine in 1994, cutting and pasting printed images from their parent’s basement, and eventually change their platform to a website. On one hand this zine explores the timelessness of games, as the games chosen to focus on are the same in both media, but also how games and technology have changed over time. Red Panda, is a fictional game featured in both zines.

Contributions:

Process:

Sketchbook page

In process screenshot

Video: http://vimeo.com/117357339

11″ x 17″  -18

Street Posters

This collaborative project delved into exploring environmental activism in the form of producing video content and posters. Both mediums serve to demonstrate the kind of responsibility that BP has shirked and the trauma suffered both by the community of people that live there and also the wildlife impact. Needless to say, the project utilizes humor in its video while the posters serve as a sobering serious reminder of the effects of the BP oil spill event. Our filmed together and made individual posters. My contribution to the posters number 18. The series aims to examine political, and social economic perspectives in combination with the environmental impact to wildlife. The posters look to emulate and use existing BP ad slogans and aesthetics to generate engagement. Some posters utilize quotes from BP executives during the aftermath and some others are layered with personal stories of the victims in the spill. The environmental posters focus on the impact on birds, turtles and dolphins.

The posters are to be posted on walls at the pedestrian level.

Rachel Tandon, Elise Mortenson, Fran Brauning, January 2015

6.5” x 9.75” x 2”

Sculpted objects, digitally printed zine, tumblr website

#itme15 was a collaborative zine resulting from a prompt to explore the boundaries of what classically constitutes a zine. Working on the topic of identity, we chose to incorporate an event into the zine generation process, having audience participation drive the content of the zine. After our initial brainstorming on the topic, we realized that identity is a topic to be determined by individuals themselves, and that everyone has a different aspect of their identity that they identify with first. We wanted to foster an event that gave people a platform to express their identity without restrictions or categories to answer.

We hosted an event providing people with clay and many other assorted materials from which to sculpt small representations of their identity. We asked each participant to sculpt a small object and write a short statement about it, the only restriction being that the object must fit within a certain size box.

The event was a success, with over 40 people participating and contributing objects to the collection. The objects ranged from a remake of someone’s favorite baseball cap to abstract representations of the conversations a person has with himself in his head. Once the event was over, we documented all of the objects and statements and paired them with our introduction to identity and the ideas behind the event in a printed zine. The physical zine, which comes in a box containing six physical objects from the party, has a limited circulation, and we created a tumblr page with similar content for wider audience reach.

The tumblr address: http://itme15risd.tumblr.com/

initial brainstorming

event planning

screenshot of the event invitation

printed zine and box layout

final zine content

final printed zine + box set

tumblr page

BONUS STAGE

The zine covers nintendo games in the past. The zine takes place bak when the first consoles were released.

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Final publication: 6.5″ x 9.75″ x 2″

Sculpted objects, digitally printed zine: edition of 5, tumblr website.

In an attempt to create a work that involves collaborative art making, Rachel, Fran and myself created #itme15, an event and publication surrounding issues of personal identity. As explained in the text, “it is easy to form friendships and relationships without ever asking others how they describe or define themselves. Impressions and assumptions are often too easily made based on classroom discourse or quick conversations in social settings. In an attempt to dismantle expectations of others and the way we project identities relative to our own, we have developed a project that provides a safe space for friends and peers to explore identity.”

The project began with an event, held at Fran’s apartment, which invited friends and peers to come and sculpt a small object that somehow reflected his, her or their identity. From there, we collected objects and produced a zine which explained our thought process and the project outcomes. The final realization of the project is a tumblr page, which catalogs each of the sculpted objects and inspires those who did not participate to define their own identity through visual form.

The group project was collaborative at all stages, but specific tasks were assigned based on individual skill. Rachel took over the majority of the preliminary sketching and planning stages. The three of us hosted the event together and split the cost of materials. Fran photographed the objects, creating both the cover page pattern and the catalogue. She also managed the tumblr uploading. I provided the majority of the written content, and was in charge of the master file, which included formatting, adding content as it was developed, and printing. Rachel constructed the boxes and managed all physical construction of the zine. She also helped with photo editing and content creation throughout the development process.

Visit the tumblr at http://itme15risd.tumblr.com/

Process:

Process 1: Facebook Event

Process 2: Event Photos

Process 3: Pattern

Process 4: Google Drive for file collection and content editing

Process 5: Content Example

Process 6: Digital Pages

Documentation– Final Zine:

Tumblr: http://itme15risd.tumblr.com/

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.

type your caption under each image