A location-based brief exploring the invisible labour behind everyday life. Assigned a random area to study, I approached the site as a designer—sketching, photographing, and analysing the space through a narrative lens. These on-site observations became the foundation of a risograph-printed zine centred on the theme of “Work.”

 

After reviewing my sketchbook, I began thinking more conceptually about the theme—focusing on the idea that “everything has work behind it”—from cycling and street maintenance to running a shop or navigating public space. Through hand-drawn illustration, halftone textures, collage, and cut-paper elements, I turned the location into a layered, visual story that reflects the unnoticed effort behind everyday moments.

To structure the zine, I created hand-folded mock-ups to test pagination and image flow before moving to digital. This approach helped establish visual rhythm and hierarchy across the spreads—translating site-specific research into a cohesive editorial outcome.