About the Author- ZINE

Today we kickstarted the About the Author brief with Studio Brief 1, to make a zine. We only have until Friday and I'm really looking forward to putting my imagery to an actual function, especially in such a fun and free way!

I started by taking the motifs of moon and rocks I had collected from his work and using found imagery and soft relaxing coloured paint sample cards.

- I tried looking at overlapping text of Chinese and English quotes from his book to symbolise his passion for translation

- I don't think the overlapping worked, as it was too crowded, but I like the effect of gouache mixed with collage to give a balanced and juxtaposed composition

-I tried making my own coloured backgrounds by painting gouache onto paper and cutting after, but I think the flat printed colour of the samples works better with the rough photographs.

-Here I explored how Yutang talks about perfect geometric elements of society, and how the human imperfections and needs are what humanity is in essence. This, he says is the difference between us and other life forms, in fact between us and inanimate objects, like rocks.


I also played around with my collages in Photoshop to quickly try different compositions. It's the first time I've done this, and I'm really excited by the possible outcomes. I really think I might use techniques like this for my zine.