Intro and Reflection
The documentary project is based off a student’s choice of portraying a person, group, place or idea. I chose to research and share my perspective on the importance of Riot Grrrl; a feminist movement that involves creating music, zines, and art related to issues women, non-binary, and transwomen face such as abuse, rape, eating disorders, sexuality, and sexism. Because I’m in Design, our project was to create a documentary book on our subject.
I really valued the whole production process of making my own book. It was an incredible and independent project where I played all parts as the photographer, writer, and designer. Coming up with graphic design elements and the overall layout of my book was a stressful but rewarding process. For the book, I read Girls To The Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus, who I actually got the chance to interview. I also Interviewed Cameron Semple and Jean Shemesh, who are part of the RG inspired band Feminoid. Prior to this project, I had no interviewing experience and had no idea on how to come up with engaging questions for my interviewees, but with Mr. Greco’s and google’s guidance I found my way.
Design Book
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Graphic Design Elements for Book
This guitar I made in Illustrator along with all the other elements, and is used on page 21 behind a pull-quote from Sara Marcus on her opinion about the regrouping of Bikini Kill. I noticed that when I went to guitar center and when generally discussing about the instrument, it’s usually very male-dominated. There’s countless posters depicting men with their guitar, but very few with women, even though there has been countless incredible women who play guitar, they seldom get the same recognition as male guitarists.
This is my second graphic design element for Design. It was inspired by the book The Riot Grrrl Collection which complines scans from original zines from riot grrrls throughout the 90’s. Zines are self-made magazines that talk about anything fandom related. Feminists in the punk scene used zines to talk about their experience and to find out about riot grrrl news and bands.
This is a screenshot of my third graphic design element used on my Dedication page. It’s a symbol for any grrrl who has ever felt silence in any way, shape, or form to speak up. Often women are silenced and told they are overly-emotional to the point that they feel like they aren’t taken seriously, so this is kind of a nudge to not let that sexist conditioning keep you silenced.
Photogallery