You Were Made for This!

Awarded Student Gold at the AAF ADDY Awards in Birmingham in 2025.
Shown in the 2024 Samford School of the Arts Juried Student Show.

You Were Made for This! is a 24 page experimental zine that is a celebration of the wild and an invitation to explore. The first few spreads walk through the beauties of the wilderness, explaining the draw of humans to the wild, while the rest of the zine encourages the reader to explore everything that’s out there.

In this zine, I experimented with paper, using two different kinds of 100% recycled paper, as well as clear vellum. The zine takes a grunge twist on the aesthetic of traditional outdoors magazines, using hand drawn illustrations and half tone aesthetics.