A lot of times, we as artists tend to look at our work and compare it to others. There is a kind of pressure to establish yourself within a medium or have a set aesthetic throughout your work. We are worried of keeping up with the trends and try to never look back to the “outdated.”

This “design hero” zine, was part of a research project on an artist of our choosing, mine being Hassan Rahim. After the research segment was done, we had to present our artist’s story and emulate their style in whatever way we wanted. The approach I took with this project was creating a zine by scanning a printed design of my own, over and over until a grainy and warped texture was achieved. This emulated the way that Rahim became involved in design, and it’s a method he uses to this day. The research essay can be read throughout the zine.