BuJo- Personal Zine
For my personal zine I wanted to try a lot of things that I’d never done before. I figured since I was already out of my comfort zone making the zine in the first place, why not just push it to a different level. First, I wanted to somehow make the zine world seem applicable to myself specifically. I had done all this research for my paper about zines and really admired the people creating them, but couldn’t help but notice the stark difference between them and myself. My friend, Lauren came up with the idea to take inspiration from my bullet journal. If you’re not familiar with a bullet journal it’s essentially a mix between a journal, a to-do list, and a calendar. I often use my bullet journal to feed my creative energy into. It’s also where I came up with the name “BuJo”- it being a nickname for bullet journal on social media.
Here are some pictures of my actual bullet journal and the inspiration for a lot of the pages used in BuJo
Beams- Group Zine
For my group zine I had this vision that I wanted to represent people who don’t have the kind of platform that Freestyle students have. I wanted to display what people are proud of in their own lives. The end result is a lot different than the initial idea for the zine, but I really like how it turned out. I have myself included at the end of this zine because
The inspiration for the illustrations came loosely from these cover designs
Here are some images from when I was originally planning out the group zine
Calendar
My strategy was making my calendar was to space out my dates really evenly and I honestly did think that I was going to be able to shake my old ways and continue with this schedule. Me, being me that did not happen. I had initially intended to get my group zine done first, but working with other peoples schedules proved to be more difficult than I had anticipated. Because of this I dove into the personal zine around the end of March and got it done within that week. Later in the middle of April I began working on my website which was unfortunately deleted because of some technical difficulties. At the same time I was working on my group zine which I put the finishing touches on it alongside the new website at the end of April.