“Multiracial Truths Turned Marketable Trends”. a Zine.

“Multiracial Truths Turned Marketable Trends”, is a short form informational booklet, or zine, designed using adobe creative suite applications and distributed in print. I created this zine as a final project for an Ethnic Studies course titled “Mixed Intimacies,” which explored the influence of nationality and race of a multiracial world and the emergence of critical mixed race studies. The topic for this zine was grounded in research surrounding the phenomenon of multicultural appropriation as a form of social currency. My approach to this research included analyzing social media channels, identifying the role of fetishization and observing the way media trend cycles commercialize ethnic ambiguity.

This project not only strengthened my media literacy, but deepened my understanding of informative digital design.
I used Adobe Express to produce the zine spread. I combined media relations strategies like visual hierarchy with creative execution elements to produce a readable, expressive print layout.