Quarantine Zine
Self-initiated | 2020 | Hand-assembled booklets, pencil on paper
The Context
In March 2020, New York City became the epicenter of a global pandemic. Streets emptied. Routines collapsed. I turned to making.
The Work
Quarantine Zine is a series of handmade booklets created during the height of the COVID-19 lockdown — each one a discrete visual record of a specific moment in that period. Rather than responding digitally, I worked with physical materials: paper, ink, found imagery, hand-lettering, and collage. The act of assembling by hand was itself intentional, a counterweight to the screen-mediated world we had all retreated into.
Each issue has its own visual identity and emotional register — some playful, some contemplative — but together they form a sustained document of a shared urban experience.
Why It Matters
This project reflects several values central to how I approach design: the belief that print objects can hold cultural memory, that design can be both personal and public, and that constraints — of materials, of space, of circumstance — are generative rather than limiting. These are the same values I bring to exhibition and interpretive design work, where the goal is to create physical experiences that help audiences feel connected to a larger story.