Cheers Zine
Category: Print, Publication, Illustration, Photography
Year: 2020 -2021
Team: Maria Sofia Meirelles, Ausra Cerkauskaite
Instagram: cheers_zine
Project Brief:
Understanding the importance of collaboration is often gained only by doing. The aim of this project was not only to create a zine but also to experiment with, what extent we can play with the process of collaboration. Along with this, we questioned how ownership works when designers are collaborating and also explored different Printing Methods.
Issue 3 : Buildings
Buildings, brings us back to our first issue. This zine was born during the pandemic and we thought there was no better way to finish it by acknowledging the unusual time it started.
We invited our contributors (Catarina Novais & LeLe Saa) to think about buildings. It could be their home, a famous architectural building or simply something from their imagination. After spending so much time inside the buildings we became more familiar with them and our perception about them had changed.
Some people love working and studying from home while others miss going out and seeing people. Hopefully this issue will make your imagination travel through different environments and cultures, giving you a needed break from everyday life.
We and our two guest contributors were challenged into a break from technology and explored manual techniques, enjoying hands on experience on linocut, stamping and stencil.
Now, we invite you to visit these buildings. Cheers!.
View full Issue : here | Linocut, Stamping and Stencil
Issue 2 : Superstitions
Welcome to our 2nd Cheers issue. This time, the topic of superstitions was dictated by the season. We embraced the peculiar atmosphere that October brings in its colder darker nights and upcoming festivities. We, three design students, have invited four guest contributors(Aneesh Borah, Jake Venables, Catarina Novais, Mara Lecoiu) to this issue. Lucky number 7.
To experiment with a new method of collaboration we decided to juxtapose the work of all the designers into a single spread. We used Riso printing to bring all the work together and make it look like one. We also introduced a new folding method and used the creases caused by the folds to divide the single page into 7 different half.
Superstitions have no borders. It lives with us, our families and more. We hear them when we are little, we grow up believing that some accidents might bring luck or some could lead us towards bad luck. When you think about it, it comes from imagination, empathy and all the best wishes. At least we hope so.
View full Issue : here | Riso Printing
Issue 1: Food
After a lot of discussions over many calls we decided to separate the process into three stages.
Individual spreads: Each of us started by creating five different works of design related to the aspect of food we want to highlight.
Collective spreads: We separated ourselves from our individual works, each of us took a composition created by the other three and one of our own (four pieces in total) to then create a spread for the zine.
Spreads with the same input: Each of us had a different way of processing that information and content. To celebrate the difference, each of us combined the unused individual works producing additional four spreads (pages 4-11).
What is food? Can we define food or does it change its meaning from one individual to another? Encyclopedia Britannica defines it as, substance consisting essentially of protein, carbohydrate, fat, and other nutrients used in the body of an organism to sustain growth and vital processes and to furnish energy.
On the other hand when we walk into a restaurant and look at the menu, we can notice that any food preparation talks about culture, geography, heritage, art and even tells a story. In this zine the four of us have aimed to explore food as a concept by trying to understand the role it plays in our subconscious as well as our external environment. Though when one first thinks of it, it seems simple but the more we explored and delved into it we realised how deeply it is rooted in each of our lives.
We hope that our zine sparkles new ideas about food or triggers you to call a friend for a coffee and cake.
Cheers!
View full Issue : here | Guest Designer: Sila Deniz | Digital Printing
