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I am a design researcher, based in Oakland, California. I also make zines. More info ︎


Projects

Security for Seniors
Buyer Experience
Auditory Data Design
Life in a Minute


Zines

Identified
Repurposing Riso
Fictions of Friction
Send Noods
Window Dressing
Splash
What Is It
Stock Responses
Defying Gravity


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Mark




Front and back covers of a zine: one side features a pair of graphic eyes closed, while the other has the same pair of eyes opened

Window Dressing


“Window Dressing” examines how the eyes influence Asian-American identity, including concepts of beauty and self-perception. Double sided, one half of the publication includes original photography and online reviews of products used to create a more severe crease in the eyelid. The other side features excerpts of interviews with females aged 4 to 63, documenting their lived experiences. Published for the 2017 San Francisco Zine Fest, “Window Dressing” is available in Chicago at Quimby’s and in the Bay Area at Issues, Pegasus Books, and Wolfman Books.


Details


13.5” x 4.25”
30 full-color pages
Risograph-printed cover


Interior spread featuring a man wearing small pink clips on his eyelids.

Interior spread featuring a man wearing a pink glasses-like contraption on his head, to make folds on his eyelids.

Interior spread of scanned eyelid tape. The text below is from a one-star Amazon review titled Caused swollen eye

Interior spread of a section titled J, Age 32, featuring a grid of eyelids healing after a surgery

Interior spread of a section titled W, Age 18, featuring two images of people wearing eyeliner - one is from ancient Egypt and the other is from a contemporary women’s website
Mark