I'm keen to use my essay as the content for my physical publication. I think that it makes perfect sense, creating a physical outcome that perfectly exemplifies the subjects discussed within the essay. In a way, the words and physical outcome will inform each other. In preparation, I want to do some research into visual essay, and how essays have been published in the past.
https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/joana-avillez-visual-essays-illustration-290818
"Joana Avillez's visual essays use drawing to say what writing can not."
"Throughout her visual essays there is a strong sense of self warmly delivered by Joana’s hand. The illustrator’s passion for expressing herself is seen through her referring to her work as “a print-out of my brain”. Furthermore, the complementary relationship between text and image strengthens the rich communication as Joana likes “to use drawing to say what writing cannot, and vice versa… Sometimes it’s more useful to draw a facial expression than it would be to describe it — potentially flatten it — with words, like what happens when you explain a joke. I actually love both modes equally, and of course, most of all when they are together. You do in fact read both.”
I really like the way that Avillez visually communicates her essays. She's an illustrator, so her main focus is drawing and communicating ideas through illustrations. From my point of view, I think that her hand-done aesthetic is really fitting for the ideas I have about producing a zine. The whole idea about aiming for 100% sustainability is only truly achievable if everything is done by the creator. Furthermore, zine culture has big roots within activism - so I think this visual choice is really fitting.
Also, the way that Avillez simply collates her words and images together in the page is similar to that of It's Freezing In LA! - a sustainable magazine that tries to use as much of the page as possible but still remain clean and simplistic so as to be east to understand. I also think that using illustrated images would be a really good idea as it makes information easier for the reader to understand.
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