HOW TO WASTE TIME: A Poster ‘Zine

As for the theme of this particular ‘zine, I was of course inspired by the illustrated images, which represent the ways I spent time doing nothing. I wanted the random yet oddly specific and personal nature of the objects to inform the idea of cultivating a personal relationship with time that is outside of meaning to anyone but you, and whose only purpose is delivering pleasure in the form of leisure. That can be harder than it seems. For me, it means endless cups of coffee and tea, puffing indulgently, listening to music, entreating the gods, staying moisturized, feeling cute, and being comfortable as I pad around the house and lounge on the couch, scrolling endlessly and flipping channels.

Design-wise, it was fun to rearrange the images in dynamic poses reminiscent of magazine spreads, and to play with manipulating the title text with sleepy, droopy, Dali-esque features. I’ll admit I didn’t spend much time on the copy, but including the blocks of text made me thing of how I want to use this format to animate some writing I’ve already done. (That writing was actually the initial inspiration for the creation of a ‘zine series, but because it’s a more serious enterprise, and one that I’d eventually like to share with the world, it was hemming me up from starting.) Image and text layout is such a delicious world to explore, and I’m just getting started!