Overview

During my internship at Hope For the Day we were entasked with creating a personal project that could be used by the nonprofit. My idea was to turn the existing educational material for Hope for the Day’s ‘The Things we Don’t Say’ Presentations into a print version that you could hand out at events which HFTD commonly frequents.

HFT values punk aesthetics as they are a non profit that were started around the alternative music scene, so I decided to focus on that. At the time I was using lots of bitmaps and halftones for textures which was shown in this work.

HFTD uses speech bubbles as a common design element in their ‘Things we don’t say’ material. I created a typical ransom note punk type for the front cover. The back cover I used a 3 collumn system to make sure all the information aand hierarchy was clear. I ended up using the ‘It’s okay to not be okay’ slogan as pattern throughout the booklet.

The first spread is a fairly basic one. It is just an intro to HFTD. I wanted to show off some of the staff with this event picture. I used a fairly empty page to outline the mental health crisis so I could draw emphasis to it. I want to note that I made every one of these headers by hand with HFTD’s fonts in illustrator.

This is my favorite spread in the zine.  I was toying around with the bitmap filter in photoshop. Which is how I created the soda bottle illustration. This is a metaphor that HFTD commonly uses to explain a crisis event vs healthy self expression. I decided to use the metaphor visually in the zine. 

This spread was the most difficult to design because of the sheer amount of copy that I needed to keep on this page. I could have probably added another spread and cut the information in half in hindsight. I was mostly using the yellow and blue as ssymbolic colors (which I do throughout the zine) tto show the bad and good methods of preventing mental health crisises.

This is another fairly basic spread. I used the gradient to break up the two pages. I had some runnoff text from the last spread and I decided to seperate the Stigma paragraph with the use of colorblocking. 

This is my second favorite spread. I think the anomolous gradient and the sideways rectangle really how break up the spread nicely. And you can see my use of the slogan as pattern on the bottom right of the spread.