For this project we were to present a truism through the media of a zine (a usually small art-magazine). A truism is simply a statement that is true, and usually provides obvious recognition or advice on a particular subject.

These books became sort of little tokens of communicated thoughts. For my zine, I wanted to communicate a sort of truism that would help one to meditate on memories and re-collect themselves if they were stressed. I developed the phrase “Pause. Recollect in order to re-collect,” and I liked how the two words “recollect” and “re-collect” mirrored each other but supplied different meanings.

My project involved scanning objects (a radio and iPod nano to allude to music) , forming the images in Photoshop,  bringing them into inDesign, choosing a typeface and manipulating it across the page for more dimension. We also learned about the printing process of the Risograph printer and how to format our documents and prepare them for printing.

I could have been more careful with my crafting of the zine and this is something that I’d like to focus on in future material projects.