Fan Zines
EFI Foundation 2025 Report
Wisdom Kaye - Mockup
Teddy Fresh - Mockup
256 images
Sonder
Videos
Hybrid: Curiousity in All Things
Karel Martens: Unbound
Lip Critic: Legs in a Snare
Printed Media
Collages
Posters
Postcards
Branding
Isaboko Volume One
PLNT x Save the Duck
Grown Together
QuestionMark.Zines
Broken from Ian
Woman Life Freedom
Register to Vote
The World is on Fire
FIGHT BACK : The dog whisle named Kanye
Horrors of Halloween
Midterm Madness
Where is the tuition going?
Unthankful
On Sabbatical
On Strike
Deep Fake P*rn
On my mind
Ads [?]
Fragments
Zoë Stapel—
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Based in New York City and Chicago, Zoë is a recent graduate from Parsons School of Design with a major in Communication Design, and a minor in Creative Entrepreneurship. Where she graduated with school and departmental honors. She is a multidisciplinary designer who enjoys editorial design, motion graphics, and branding. She is passionate about social causes and implementing them into her practices.
Fan Zines
I was inspired by @hybriddesignsf book published with @victionworkshop to make my own fan zine!
What struck me most was not just the philosophy, but how it materializes on the page. The grid feels both structured and flexible, creating a system that supports exploration rather than limiting it. Hand-drawn elements interrupt and coexist with precise layouts, blurring the line between intuition and control. The imagery moves fluidly between polished and raw, reinforcing the idea that design emerges from layering rather than a single voice or method.
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What struck me most was not just the philosophy, but how it materializes on the page. The grid feels both structured and flexible, creating a system that supports exploration rather than limiting it. Hand-drawn elements interrupt and coexist with precise layouts, blurring the line between intuition and control. The imagery moves fluidly between polished and raw, reinforcing the idea that design emerges from layering rather than a single voice or method.
Social Media Post
I was inspired by Karel Martens' book Unbound published by @roma.publications to make my own fan zine!
I was equally drawn to its visual language and physicality: the exposed perfect binding, thin almost translucent paper, and the use of top-edge (head) binding, which subtly shifts how the book is held and read. These choices don’t just support the content—they are the content, foregrounding structure, process, and interaction.
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I was equally drawn to its visual language and physicality: the exposed perfect binding, thin almost translucent paper, and the use of top-edge (head) binding, which subtly shifts how the book is held and read. These choices don’t just support the content—they are the content, foregrounding structure, process, and interaction.
Social Media Post
I was inspired by Lip Critic’s song Legs in a Snare, from their newest album Theft World to make a fan zine
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Social Post
EFI Foundation 2025 Report
Freelance Collaboration - Worked along side Jonathon Berlin
Wisdom Kaye
Mock editorial spread
Teddy Fresh
Mock editorial spread -with own crayon drawings
256 images
Collected 256 images that inspire me, then to sorted those images into groups, and then created a series of zines from those images. I broke up each category into their own zine, making from that a collection of 5 zines.
