Zine Update | Color and Pattern

After a very helpful in-class critique, I decided to go in the direction of investigating the impact of color and pattern on the objects around us. Specifically, I want to examine the role of ubiquitous and plain artifacts (appliances, homes, vehicles, and other utility artifacts) in our lives, and how that role might change if we were to give it a new personality through the layering of color and pattern.

For imagery, I started playing around with some images of everyday artifacts and what they might look like if they were to be painted with either bold color or patterns. I love how the mood of both objects (I chose a home and a refrigerator for this round) changes completely with each color/pattern change, and am excited to look more into this area of exploration.

The House.

The Refrigerator.

The Zine Itself.

For the zine, I want to play with the idea of giving the user a sort of simplified tangible mini-Photoshop where they can experiment with pattern and objects on their own (in addition to some imagery like the pictures above that I would execute). The form I'm currently playing with is a double roll fold with interior pockets to hold patterned transparencies for the user to place over various images—each image would have a separate mask layer that would allow the user to insert the transparency in between the two layers in order to "apply" the pattern to the object and not the entire photo.

Photos of the current mini-prototype are below.