Utopian Labyrinth Zine
Utopian Labyrinth Zine
Utopian Labyrinth Zine
An interactive spiral-bound zine that immerses readers in a chaotic yet playful journey of abstract patterns, shapes, and text. Using experimental forms and unexpected visual interactions, the zine invites exploration through a utopian labyrinth of beautiful chaos. Created for the 2024 Multiple Formats Art Book Fair in Boston, the piece blends creative design and interactivity to deliver a thought-provoking, immersive experience.
An interactive spiral-bound zine that takes readers on a chaotic yet playful journey of abstract patterns, shapes, and text. Using experimental forms and unexpected interactions, it invites exploration through a utopian labyrinth of beautiful chaos. Created for the 2024 Multiple Formats Art Book Fair in Boston, it blends creative design and interactivity for a thought-provoking, immersive experience.
Category:
Editorial
Category:
Editorial
Tool:
Adobe Indesign
Tool:
Adobe Indesign
About 2024 Multiple Formats
Multiple Formats is a symposium that brings together conversations on artist books, higher education, pedagogy, and topics such as advocacy, distribution, collection, and access. Each year, it also hosts an art book fair, where design students, graphic designers, book designers, and other creatives showcase their craft. As part of my Sophomore Graphic Design Studio at Boston University, I designed bookmarks, postcards, posters, and zines to be featured in the fair.
Multiple Formats is a symposium exploring artist books, higher education, pedagogy, and topics like advocacy, distribution, and access. Each year it hosts an art book fair where design students and creatives showcase their work. As part of my Sophomore Graphic Design Studio at Boston University, I designed bookmarks, postcards, posters, and zines for the fair.
Vision behind the "Utopian Labyrinth" Zine
In this project, I experimented with over 100 geometric and organic forms, using color, line, texture, and contrast to explore the balance between chaos and order, structure and fluidity. The resulting zine embraces beautiful chaos through maze-like shapes, guiding text, and blocky fonts like Redaction, inviting readers to navigate a utopian labyrinth of confusion and curiosity. Transparent and reflective materials, along with interactive prompts like a page for scribbling, transform flipping through the zine into an immersive, tactile experience, reimagining how shape and form function in graphic design.
I experimented with over 100 geometric and organic form to explore chaos and order, structure and fluidity. The zine embraces beautiful chaos with maze-like shapes, guiding text, and blocky fonts like Redaction, inviting readers through a utopian labyrinth of curiosity. Transparent and reflective materials, along with interactive prompts like a scribble page, create an immersive, tactile experience that reimagines the role of shape and form in graphic design.
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Contact Me!
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janetjliu
janetliu.ca@gmail.com
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