This project revolved around creating an eight page zine, including the front and back covers, that represented a chosen haiku. The depiction of the haiku did not have to be literal, and the haiku did not have to be clearly legible on each page, but the zine was meant to embody the work of the poet and the message they were trying to get across to the reader.
Haiku Selection
On the Horizon,
Storm clouds prepare their blessing
A leaf turns Upward
- Jim Downton
Sketches and Digital Iterations
This booklet is illustrating an unnamed haiku poem written by Jim Downton. The objective with each spread in the zine was to visually explain the line of the haiku it was representing, not in a very literal way, but in a way that the audience could understand through more simple, representative shapes.
This is why an emerging semi-circle was used to emulate the line "on the horizon", why lines with drops on the ends throughout the zine meaning to represent falling rain, and why the leaves "turn" when they invert from color to color.
Digital Iterations
Final Black and White Booklet
Color Process
Final Color Booklet
