Introducing: A Moment's Notice

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Remember when sharing creative work online felt like showing your sketchbook to friends? Before every post needed a strategy?

 

We're all trying so hard to be heard through the noise that we've forgotten how to... create. This zine is a return to that original impulse: a printed space where work doesn't need to convert, perform, or build your brand.

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Just honest creative expression from people brave enough to share what they make when no one's watching.

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My approach

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• Frame it out

• Create the vessel

• Invite people in with intention

• Offer them a safe space to be themselves

• Celebrate the magic with over-enthusiastic joy
   

Usually, I use this method for experiences: workshops, events, conferences, learning series, and more. But I want to get back to my original craft of graphic design for a moment and see what happens when we do this with print.
 

For fun. Not for work.

 

I am not sure how long this will last, because the point is to be a time capsule. Something looser. Messier. Something with a bit of weird, tension, angst, hope, and optimism.

 

I want to feel, react, play, and create something that can't be redesigned once it's out the door, together, with you.
 

Inspirations

• High School Art and Literary Magazines: These publications are often the first time someone gets published, and it's a big deal. All submissions go to print. Each person gets a page for their poem, drawing, photo, essay, or whatever art they've created. These get saved for years.

• Local Alternative Papers: Those wonderfully weird local papers that connect you to what's happening. The heartbeat of the community.

• Magazines (too many to list; here are a few): The typography of the NYT Sunday magazine, Dutch-based FLOW for its illustration use and vulnerable stories on delicious paper, PRINT for celebrating the craft of design, BUST for its commentary, Juxtapoz for its street art and cultural perspective.

• The People's Design Archive: A place where graphic design from everywhere can be shared and documented. In the words of founder Louise Sandhaus, "At its core, it's about honoring and recognizing that everything is valued, every person is valued, and that anyone can contribute to preserving graphic design history." I love that. 

• Also, this article on culture creation and authenticity.