Campaign to spread awareness and speed up diagnosis time for Endometriosis
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Publication Graphic Design Layout Design Illustration
Current sex education resources are outdated, clinical, and often fail to represent the real experiences of women and queer people. I proposed a magazine that blends informative content with personal stories, offering an honest, inclusive, and visually engaging approach to sexual health.
Brief
This project involved creating a zine for a relevant issue, it explored the lack of sex and pleasure education, particularly the exclusion of queer and female experiences. Mainstream education focuses on reproduction and male perspectives, leaving many without the tools for safe, empowering, and pleasurable experiences.
explanation
I wanted to showcase my illustration skills by hand-drawing the front cover, featuring intertwined figures that represent the confusion and warped perceptions surrounding sex and pleasure. The rough, black-painted textures used throughout the imagery and background reflect the uncertainty many queer people and women experience when navigating sexual identity and enjoyment.
A minimal colour palette of orange, black, and white gives the zine a bold, nuanced aesthetic that resonates with a younger adult audience. An orange circle appears on the cover and recurs throughout the pages—its scattered placement symbolising the disorientation young women and queer people often feel as they grapple with the disconnect between reproductive sex and personal desire
