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Zine Boom in Japan ...
In a world now dominated by digital media, small handmade books are a return to analog media and offline connection.
Why more people in Japan are forsaking YouTube and TikTok videos and crafting their own magazines by hand.
Nutshell Library
Released five years ago ...
Limited-edition boxset of five minizines: Motels, Semina 10, Orb, Creeks, Novelty+Nature.
> https://medium.com/dispel/nutshell-library-56ce2388f7b7
Meet Mixic
What: A pocket speaker which turns playlists into mosaics and helps you discover new music.
My original name for it was Musaic, which I was never sold on and finally scrapped after discovering there is a home speaker which already has that name (and, disappointingly, has seemingly nothing to do with mosaics).
I experimented with several different approaches to branding for this before breaking out the isometric grid. It’s the first time I’ve used one of those in Illustrator so it was definitely a learning experience (and the logo took longer to make because of it) but worth it in the end because I then riffed off the design for the accompanying illustrations for the product breakdown visuals.
The tagline “hear the rainbow” evolved from the description in my original sketches (Listen in Colour) and is intended to convey not only the colourful nature of the product and what it does but the variety it is designed to bring to your listening habits. The top image is intended to represent an icon for the Mixic app while below it is one of the logo/wordmark layouts I’ve been experimenting with (among others). It reminds me of those old scratch off colouring books with the black charcoal(? Foil? Dust?) covering the bright colours beneath. Must be lodged in my subconscious from when I was little even though I probably spent more time poking people with the ‘pencil’ that came with those books than actually colouring.
Cover 8L: Okie Wood
... coming soon
Ruscha Quartet
In celebration of Ed Ruscha's overdue first solo exhibition at MoMA, here is my series of Ruscha-inspired zines:
Okie Wood
Some Los Angeles Apartments (preview)
Orb
Twentyfive Apartments
Preview
New zine. Issue 6 of Cover. Download here.
This is a snapshot of a forthcoming Dispel zine, which has been marinating in my drawers for years, a rephotography project based on Ed Ruscha's small book, Some Los Angeles Apartments. I'm pushing out this preview zine before the upcoming first solo exposition of Ed Ruscha at MoMA this September, a career retrospective titled ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN (insanely overdue).
Older issues available here.
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Current and older zines are available here ...
This is my micropublication
