NYCC District 35
Zines, etc.
Consensual Workplace Relationships: What to Look out For, 2023
Bracket-bound faux FBI report documenting my comments and drawings from The X-Files and its romantic undertones. Done for Independent Publishing class. Cardstock cover with bracket binding. Interior pages are inkjet on vellum.
Bracket-bound faux FBI report documenting my comments and drawings from The X-Files and its romantic undertones. Done for Independent Publishing class. Cardstock cover with bracket binding. Interior pages are inkjet on vellum.
Sumerian Artefact Translation: Report II, 2023
Single-page tabloid zine printed using dual-color risograph process. Done for Independent Publishing class. All content within is self-generated including the images of the tablets. Tablets were sculpted in clay, photographed, and everything was laid out in InDesign.
Single-page tabloid zine printed using dual-color risograph process. Done for Independent Publishing class. All content within is self-generated including the images of the tablets. Tablets were sculpted in clay, photographed, and everything was laid out in InDesign.
Twenty-nine Pairs, 2023
Spiral-bound and laser-printed zine.
Silt in my Riverbed, 2022
This is a zine featuring an original poem and illustrations. The illustrations are fully graphite but were scanned in & text was overlaid in InDesign. Done for Image as Communication final.
This is a zine featuring an original poem and illustrations. The illustrations are fully graphite but were scanned in & text was overlaid in InDesign. Done for Image as Communication final.
Grandt’s Shell, 2023
Photo zine made with photos taken in the last month of Grandt’s Shell’s (the oldest gas station in Illinois) life.
Photos and text by August Graham. Organization, layout, and overall design by Mara Nicolaie.
Photo zine made with photos taken in the last month of Grandt’s Shell’s (the oldest gas station in Illinois) life.
Photos and text by August Graham. Organization, layout, and overall design by Mara Nicolaie.
Daniel, Lit; 2022
Watercolor exploration of subsurface scattering for Light, Color, and Design final.
Sample
Publications
A History Omitted, 2023
8x10 laser print; comb bound with paper dust jacket cover
A 104-page book detailing my journey in learning about indigenous peoples of Illinois (history + culture) and contemporary issues. This book is a report of various interviews, articles, and photos that I collected over the course of the semester for my intensive class.
8x10 laser print; comb bound with paper dust jacket cover
A 104-page book detailing my journey in learning about indigenous peoples of Illinois (history + culture) and contemporary issues. This book is a report of various interviews, articles, and photos that I collected over the course of the semester for my intensive class.
Casioheads, 2023
8x10 laser print, perfect bound
A collaborative magazine between me and my friend Maria Semidey.
Combination of self-generated content and pre-existing articles done for magazine project in independent publishing class.
8x10 laser print, perfect bound
A collaborative magazine between me and my friend Maria Semidey.
Combination of self-generated content and pre-existing articles done for magazine project in independent publishing class.
Stories of the Prairie: Indigenous Folktales from Around Illinois and the Great Lakes, 2023
8x10 laser print, saddle bound
Another recent work from my graphic design intensive. All imagery is not mine except for the line imagery on the black pages. This is part of my semester-long focus on indigenous history and culture in Illinois.
Precursor to A History Omitted
8x10 laser print, saddle bound
Another recent work from my graphic design intensive. All imagery is not mine except for the line imagery on the black pages. This is part of my semester-long focus on indigenous history and culture in Illinois.
Precursor to A History Omitted
Ghid de Costume Populare Românesti, 2023
11x17 laser print, saddle bound
This is a mockup magazine done for my typography class in Spring 2023. All content inside the booklet is compiled from outside sources and credited on the back.
The parts I generated include the following:
Pages 2-5 and page 16. The maps on all the spreads are mine as well as the illustrations (not photos) on pages 4 & 5.
11x17 laser print, saddle bound
This is a mockup magazine done for my typography class in Spring 2023. All content inside the booklet is compiled from outside sources and credited on the back.
The parts I generated include the following:
Pages 2-5 and page 16. The maps on all the spreads are mine as well as the illustrations (not photos) on pages 4 & 5.
Point; Issue 6, 2023
8x10 laser print, saddle bound
This was a publication we did as an excercise for a typography class. The only text generated by me is the first section of the Jan Tschichold article and the captions for the images. Everything else is credited at the end and used from other sources as exercise for type layout.
8x10 laser print, saddle bound
This was a publication we did as an excercise for a typography class. The only text generated by me is the first section of the Jan Tschichold article and the captions for the images. Everything else is credited at the end and used from other sources as exercise for type layout.
Pratt
Book Club
For the Pratt Book Club, fellow student and illustrator Jean Doran and I collaborated on a series of risograph posters to promote each event.
We took a more raunchy spin to the idea of a book club...
We also created some flyers that we hung around Pratt, which are pictured below.
(2022)
Left: Illustrations done by Mara Nicolaie. Text done by Jean Doran. Printed using risograph printer.
Right: The flyers we made.
We took a more raunchy spin to the idea of a book club...
We also created some flyers that we hung around Pratt, which are pictured below.
(2022)
Left: Illustrations done by Mara Nicolaie. Text done by Jean Doran. Printed using risograph printer.
Right: The flyers we made.
