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 :>
