Zoë Lou
About Me:
I'm an editorial designer working in print and independent publishing. I run QuestionMark.Zines, an experimental zine project that translates current events into visual narratives, and I have production experience in Risograph and screen printing. Based in New York City.
Select Work Isaboko Guidebook Volume Two
About Me:
I'm an editorial designer working in print and independent publishing. I run QuestionMark.Zines, an experimental zine project that translates current events into visual narratives, and I have production experience in Risograph and screen printing. Based in New York City.
The Marshall Project : Collage
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The Marshall Project: Preserving the Legacy of a Dying Friend Beyond His Crime
Freelance collage for The Marshall Project2026
In this first-person essay for The Marshall Project, Devin A. Giordano writes an obituary for his friend Jack, an incarcerated man who is still alive. He writes it because the state’s record will reduce Jack to a name on a list.
I was struck by how much of Jack’s work is wildlife: deer, brooks, valleys, painted by someone who has been incarcerated for about 45 years. That contrast became the concept. I took the details of his cubicle studio from the story, the plastic mattress he uses as a table, his brushes and the stained washcloth, and set them in an open forest, so the place he paints from becomes the place his paintings take him. A single dove flies overhead, because Devin describes Jack as a “peacemaker.”
There was no photograph of Jack, so the illustration portrays him through his tools and his practice rather than his likeness. The composition was built for two placements: a horizontal crop for the web article and a full vertical format for social.
Art direction: Celina Fang
Story: Preserving the Legacy of a Dying Friend Beyond His Crime
I was struck by how much of Jack’s work is wildlife: deer, brooks, valleys, painted by someone who has been incarcerated for about 45 years. That contrast became the concept. I took the details of his cubicle studio from the story, the plastic mattress he uses as a table, his brushes and the stained washcloth, and set them in an open forest, so the place he paints from becomes the place his paintings take him. A single dove flies overhead, because Devin describes Jack as a “peacemaker.”
There was no photograph of Jack, so the illustration portrays him through his tools and his practice rather than his likeness. The composition was built for two placements: a horizontal crop for the web article and a full vertical format for social.
Art direction: Celina Fang
Story: Preserving the Legacy of a Dying Friend Beyond His Crime