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Project 3: Zine

Our Lives in New York Zine—Miaoye and Aditi

For our final project, Aditi and I decided to make a zine with snippets / collages of our lives in New York City so far. We focused on where we have spent most of our times—East Village and Brooklyn, respectively. Instead of working on a stylistically consistent zine that is entirely collaborative, we thought it’d be fun to still preserve our individual styles and tastes. We spent a day sitting next to each other making collages. Aditi focused on different trucks she’s encountered on the streets, whereas mine was themed by page—flowers on one, fruits on another, then followed by objects that have resemblance either in shape, form, or meaning. We split the zine right down in the middle, so that you can read it cover-to-cover in either direction.

We initially wanted to work with 2 or 3 colors, but were delightfully surprised after printing in only blue. We thought blue on grey paper was really aesthetically pleasing, and decided to keep our zine one color, for we thought using more would only ruin the vibes :>

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Project 2: Generative Design

Miaoye’s Generative Design

I worked with rectangles on a grid. I have a bottom layer where the rectangles increased in transparency as it moves down the canvas. The top layer does the opposite—it also omits about 40% of the grid.

On darker colors, what worked better was having the top layer (blue in this case) both increase in transparency as it goes down the canvas, and decrease in frequency of appearance across.

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Project 1: Animation

Miaoye’s Animation

For this assignment, I worked with a sequence from Princess Momonoke. This is the original gif:

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I used green and orange for my riso. Interestingly, the colors are very different from sheet to sheet, perhaps due to the misalignment between two prints? This is the final result for my riso animation: