Assignment 0 - Zine
materials research, circularity, material driven design, material aesthetics
Editors
For this weeks' zine me & Britt were the editors. The guidelines that we set up can be found here. The idea is to make an online interactive look-book since it is not possible to print out the zines but I think most of us would still like to see each others work. By making an online look-book with the zines this is made possible. I think this is a pretty cool idea, also because personally I like the visual designs better on screen than if they are printed.
The core concepts of this week are: materials research, circularity, material driven design, material aesthetics. I will be reflecting on my process and discuss how (one of) these concepts relates to my approach, process and/or results.
Cover
As you can see the colours we have chosen for this weeks' zine are red and black on a beige colored paper. This is the cover I've made for the zine:
Meaning behind the design
The process of cooking bioplastic is illustrated here. Natural resources like mushrooms and plants are used for making bioplastics. After this is molded, casted and cooked, a circular product, in this case the plastic bag, will be the end result of this process. I think the idea of my cover is nice but I could've drawn everything a bit more neat, I'm not sure if other people will see what some stuff is. Especially the little guy in the middle diving into the bowl with a loupe is a bit unclear. Also the composition could be a bit better since everything is a bit all over the place. This drawing took me about 5 hours and I realized that it will never be finished in my eyes so I just left it for what it is now.
Own spread
For my own spread I didn't mean to keep the design simple but when I was experimenting I was satisfied pretty soon in the designing process, although it doesn't match the style of the cover very well. This design took me about one hour while the other one took me five, and I might even be happier with this one.
Meaning behind the design
When I decided to talk about circularity, the first thing that came in my mind were circles. In circularity things don't mean to go to waste. I was experimenting what could come out of a circle, and it was another color if you combine the 2 circles together. This way the circles get re-used and something else comes out of it.
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