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FWC is a film and games magazine with a single purpose: to open up people alienated from the arts (due to their gender, sexuality, skin colour, or other non-conformities) to thoughtful critique of the arts they love. It’s a multi-disciplinary endavour; contributors featured are musicians, activists, marine biologists, filmmakers, game developers, and Becauseacademics.ofthis, FWC’s visual identity is eclectic. Each article is designed as an homage to the text and to the writer. I let illustrators take the lead on interpreting their pitches, and bounce ideas off them for layout which complements their work. The FWC logotype is currently on its second version. The first, slightly skewed and set in ITC Serif Gothic, was bold and dynamic but inflexible. The new version is partially transparent and perfect for the everchanging Filmmakers cover.
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Words by Aisha Josiah Art by Norrie Millar
I tried several layouts here, all trying to replicate the slopes of Kyle's illustration. They all lead the eyes into the magazine's gutter which I wasn't a fan of. Instead, I went back to basics and took inspiration from early computer interfaces to create a title page reminiscent of a space ship cockpit.
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The Oregon Trail piece likewise takes guidance from Norrie Millar’s colour scheme to create a more modern, cleaner typographic look which nonetheless takes guidance from typography of the American West.
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Words by Sydney Bollinger
Words by Chris Airiau | Art by Kyle Prior
Art by Heidi Ostell Here, I drew on the New York Underground’s visual identity to make a connection between Sydney’s home country and the framing of the piece being that of a journey. Working on this piece sold me on Helvetica.
By using public domain NASA photography from the Moon landings and combining them with Charlie’s art, I was able to start toying with magical realism.
Transmission for Them is a solo journaling game about lovers lost in space. Players pull from a deck of
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TRANSMISSION FOR THEM
Gymnopedie No.1, aptly titled Transmission For Jehn Inspired by hard sci-fi and magical realism, I set out to convey the vast emptiness of space through layout. Keeping page count in check was tough, though budget and time constraints won out. I reached out to illustrator Charlie Freer for the art; her style is colourful and psychedelic, and I wanted her whimsy to contrast the grounded photography I used throughout. As the player’s story approaches the fantastic, so does the art direction shift away from NASA photography and towards Charlie’s Myart.typography here is stark and calculated - bold all-caps for headers, and a monowidth code typeface for the body. I’ve included some flavour text in a condensed Times New Roman, inspired by retro sci-fi anime.
Edited by Rose Bache Art by Charlie Freer Design by Eryk Sawicki View here
Words by Joshua Luke Cable Samuel T. McNally Eryk Sawicki
I also toyed with creating “inworld” documents to use as a framing device for prompts. Here, by using a heavily edited still from Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation, I created a surveillance log on letterhead. Each suit in the deck of hards had a specific cateogry of prompt tied to it, and so I needed to create visuals to demarkate each chapter and represent the prompts. Each Clubs prompt was about something that went wrong and how the player overcame it, if at all.
Edited by Sydney Bollinger Peter Eijk Art by Megan Dobbyn Design by Eryk Sawicki View here
Lunar Echoes is a hack of Jay Dragon's “Wanderhome”, and is an officially licensed tabletop roleplaying game of Becky Chambers' “A Psalm for the WildBuilt”. I worked on the project alongside the Sustainable Gaming Forum for submission in the Climate Jam 2022 game jam. Drawing from the work of William Morris and the themes of environmentalism in the text, I used square paper and deep margins to encourage melancholic reflection in the reader.
Words by David JustineMarrenSam(wise)SydneyBlandyBollingerFigginsJ.T.MacAdamNorton-Kertson
Unexplained Scotland is a mixtape of 20 weird, wonderful, and occult stories from around DecidedlyScotland. more "traditional" than my other projects, Unexplained Scotland was an exercise in making a novel on a real budget. Aside from the cover illustrated by the incredibly talented SADGHOBLIN, all art inside of the book is in the public domain and entirely free.
Words by Martin R. Shaw Edited by Sydney Bollinger Eryk Sawicki Cover by SADGHOBLIN Design by Eryk Sawicki View here
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