D/zine Issue 13: REDUX

Dzine. 13

This issue is all about revitalisation, revisiting and reinvention in design. As most of my design peers at QUT know, ‘Everything is a Remix: Remastered’ and whats wrong with that! Design is constantly evolving and changing and we must too but since basically every idea has already been done before why not just find inspiration where it be and add whatever the hell we want to it.

5WILD & FLUOR ESCENT

In “Supercut”, a song off of Lorde’s sophomore album, Melodrama, she describes love as “wild and fluorescent” Ken Lacdao explores our romance with the 80’s. Accopmaied by still-life photography by Pip Comino.

MIMEKMI

Mimekmi is a Brisbane based label, established in 2017 whilst completing the final year of a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Fashion)/Bachelor Business (Finance) at QUT BY Mackenzie Clark.

I wanted to design pieces that were undeniably fun and youthful; a mixture of girly-girl and streetwear. To me this ultimately meant clothes I would wear myself and reflect my personality. I’m now looking to launch a collection of five pieces later this year.

The collection consists of super girly dress with chunky smocked socks and cropped tops. I’d like to think of it as unfussy dressing that isn’t slouchy pants and beige tones.

David Upcher brings a new surrealist life to recycled National Geographic magazines and preloved educational textbooks whilst Chloe Wells gives them a story with selected excerpts of her poetry.

Most of the books and magazines I got from lifeline bookfest in the $1 section. At the beginning of the year though, I went searching for more material at an opshop in Paddington with Bronte. I brought a big pile of the books to the counter and the shopkeeper asked me what I was getting them for. I couldn’t come up with a lie quickly enough, so I just told her that I’d be making photo collages from the pictures. She looked kinda mortified that I’d be cutting all the pictures out. I felt a bit bad about it. When I started doing photo collage I would feel so guilty about defacing books that I could hardly bring myself to start cutting images out, so I totally understood her reaction. — David Upcher

Perimeter is a visual play the revisits past emotional barriers and their boundary—like feelings. The series moves through the stages of restriction and constraint, acceptance, breaking away and growth.

Pip Comino

NOSTALGIA: A HAPPY TRAP.

Sabrina Nguyen-Ladera explores nostalgia through digital illustration and prose.

Nostalgia comes in two parts: the joy and comfort, followed by yearning and melancholy. It’s bittersweet.

Sometimes it’s a sound, a taste or a smell. It’s the song that comes on the store’s overhead speakers that you played for hours on end in your bedroom when you were ten. It’s the video game console that’s been newly revived that you used to play late at night with your siblings (way past your bed time). Or sometimes its the smell of the soup you ordered at the restaurant that reminds you of your mum’s home cooking. It’s these little memory triggers that steal a little of moment your day - a pause in time. And like a warm hug, it envelops you for those few seconds. But when you actively try to chase these little moments, it can become dangerous.

Nostalgia itself isn’t selfish. It exists as fragments of memories that we hold on to. But when you live purely on nostalgia alone, it changes nothing. We can become trapped in a state of reminiscing bygones and we forget to plan for the future or to live in the present even. It’s important to take these moments as they come, not to pine for how things once were, but as reminders of the experiences that shaped us to be who we are today.

ABOVE

From the hustle and bustle of Jakarta’s thriving city, a short train ride connects you to the history of

bronte mark explores the sensoriality of memory and how taste and smell can revive powerful memories. both good, and bad.

6366Bronte’s digital drawing emulates the texture and scrachiness of a lino-cut piece creating a sense of depth to these essentially 2 dimensional scenes.