Desperation zine

As part of my teaching role at Folkwang University, I organized a workshop with my teaching partner (and former classmate AND friend – luckyluckylucky) at the annual student exhibition 2024. The aim was to encourage visitors to process content in zine-form in a low-threshold way.

The big twist: I've never made a zine myself and I tend to claim that "illustration's really not my thing", so the workshop also helped me overcome that "fear". I decided to go with one of my favorite nonsense-sayings: Wild how much time we spend - because it is in fact wild.

I'll spare you the anti-capitalist tirade at this point, but basically the question of how we (should?) spend our time is an exciting one and especially in the age of digitalization and social media, many people have a tendency to say how crap it all is and how we're just wasting away our lives. Well, here's the second big plot twist: I don't think so.

Don't get me wrong, the events in my little comic are real. I happily look at the stickers on traffic lights and lampposts, watch the ducks in the pond and the clouds in the sky, BUT scrolling on Twitter or texting with friends is also absolutely blissful. Blissful in a different way that ducks but –for me– a thoroughly fulfilling way to spend my time. Because every external influence, digital or IRL, can trigger a thought process (or make me smile for a moment, nice) and isn't that fantastic!?

“There are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see” and damn, so true lol
I love spending my time spotting such cathedrals on- and offline and indulging in pseudo-philosophical thoughts because –just because. It's fun and fucking capitalis– [...].

Decolonization Discussion Group

As a members of LNU's Decolonization Discussion Group, Ashleigh Spooner and I (with help from Matilda Plöjel and the design department) curated a list of book titles and put together the DDG Library.
I did the design for the stickers and posters, the typefaces used are all by typedesigners of color and women.