Hollowframe Zine, 2D Design project, May 2024

For my 2D design class final we were instructed to to make an 8-paged zine + poster designed for a double-sided 11x17" sheet of paper about anything we wanted, so I elected to repurpose stuff I had already drawn for my ongoing Hollowframe project since I was already buried under assignments from other classes.

For the zine, the idea was to split the timeline of the Hollowframe project into four rough "phases", take a warframe from each, and then condense a bunch of info about the design I drew for them into a page. The other four pages were dedicated to the cover, the introduction to the Hollowframe project, and the closing thanks. It was an interesting challenge to fit snapshots of such a large project into just eight pages and I'm very happy with the result!

As for the poster, I already had a poster for the project that I had been updating with each new addition. However, I couldn't just copy and paste it in because the old poster design was in a 16:9 ratio, which didn't cleanly fit the necessary 17x11" dimensions. My professor also pushed me to do something more with the design for this project, so I took it as an opportunity to rearrange and recolor the poster entirely. This transformed the poster for a fairly static an gray image into a much more colorful and dynamic one, something the project had been sorely needing for the past few years. This transformation was done in a single day alongside printing in order to make it to the deadline in time so brush strokes were at times a bit rough as I rushed, but regardless it was a major success! It was such a big success in fact that it garnered quite a bit of attention online, including that of Warframe creative director Rebecca Ford, leading to a print of the post being hung up in her office where she hosts Warframe's weekly Devshort streams!