a chronological archive for (most of) my projects:
Things We
Tried to Hide
Medium
cassette tape & liner notes
Year
2024
I curated a mid-career retrospective for my favorite musician, Rose Melberg, can you even believe it?
Available at Antiquated Future.
Vacancy
Medium
ink on 7 foot x 5 foot piece of paper
Year
2023
I drew tally marks on a sheet of paper about housing in San Francisco.
Brochure Exercise
Medium
digital document
Year
2022
As a school assignment, I used Adobe Illustrator and InDesign to design a travel brochure for Budapest.
Drawing Exercise
As a school assignment, I used Adobe Illustrator to draw the student housing cooperative where I lived in Santa Cruz, California.
Medium
digital illustration
Year
2022
Typography Exercise
As a school assignment, I used Adobe InDesign to design typography for a Stephen Crane poem and a vintage textbook illustration.
Medium
digital document
Year
2021
No Touching
I edited a poetry zine about solitude, missing your friends, and the COVID-19 lockdown. Cover art by Wally Catton!
Medium
zine
Year
2021ish
“a decade of
Shit’s Fucked”
I wrote an essay for Behind the Zines #11 about the tenth anniversary of my zine Shit’s Fucked.
Medium
essay
Year
2021
Shit’s Fucked, Still
I wrote a sequel, at the height of COVID-19 suffering, to my zine Shit’s Fucked
Medium
zine
Year
2020
“Mix Messages”
I wrote an essay in Basic Paper Airplane #13 zine edited by Joshua James Amberson
Medium
essay
Year
2020
Kingsburg Coffee pot
My photo of the Swedish Coffeepot water tower in Kingsburg, California, was published in the newsletter The California Sun
Medium
photograph
Year
2020
“Tell Me a Story”
Medium
essay
Year
2020
I wrote an essay in Behind the Zines #9
DRIVEL #1:
The New Issue
I wrote a zine about the concept of “newness,” filled with lots of different types of writing and silly art. I meant to make these pretty regularly, but then the pandemic hit, and I didn’t really want to have a DRIVEL about health or sickness or misery or whatever.
Medium
zine
Year
2019
“Scene Report:
Leona Canyon”
I wrote an essay about a nice park in Oakland for the zine Absolutely Zippo by Robert eggplant.
Medium
essay
Year
2017
Ripe for Romance
v. 2
I made my first zine ever, Ripe for Romance v. 1, in 2005. Although I was proud of it, and thought it was cute and silly and fun, I didn’t fully grasp the importance of margins or legibility or other things that seem very obvious in hindsight. Since I still liked the concept, a field guide to types of crushes as represented by anthropomorphic fruit, I decided to create a second version in 2014. However! This unexpectedly felt bad, as if I were just ripping myself off and not coming up with new ideas. Lesson learned.
Medium
zine
Year
2014
Hi! I Love You!
Thank You for Moving Here!
I made this zine about my favorite places in Oakland/Berkeley/the Bay Area at large after many of my friends moved here. Please move here! We could eat baguettes in the park!
Medium
zine
Year
2012
Shit’s Fucked
Medium
zine
Year
2011
This zine changed my life.
"The Hot Jam of Forever"
I wrote about my love for the song “Hey Jealousy” by the Gin Blossoms for the website The Morning News.
Medium
essay? anecdote?
Year
2010
Knitwear designs
I designed two hats and two sets of mittens, which were published in a Better Homes and Gardens special issue! It was unexpected and exciting! I don’t know why they hung them as framed art.
Medium
knit hats and mittens
Year
2009
Recipes for Life, or,
delicious sandwiches and other hot stuff
I wrote a zine about sandwich recipes with my friend Ryan Wade. We used to jokingly think of ourselves as a single being called Gryna Swade. Our sandwiches are delicious.
Medium
zine
Year
2007
Ripe for Romance
v. 1
Here it is, the first thing I ever made for public consumption. I wrote it when I was 21 years old, living in a 22-person student co-op in Santa Cruz, and working at a tiny health food store. I think I made 30 copies, which I sold at a local crafts fair, I still have the originals somewhere.
Medium
zine
Year
2005
