SICK Magazine
Illustrations for an independent magazine exploring illness and disability.
Founder and Editor: Olivia Spring
Designer: Kaiya Waerea
Issue 7 cover art: Chloe Watts
Designer: Kaiya Waerea
Issue 7 cover art: Chloe Watts
Essays, features, poetry, art & more from Laura Baliman, Caren Beilin, Amy Berkowitz, Leah M. Bowie, Kaitlin D'Avella, Lindsy Davis, Katherine DeCoste, Yining Fang, Emily Freeman, Maria Gray, Bec Mackenzie, Ariana Martinez, Chloe McGreal, Ryann McKinney, Iyla Owens, Emily Pinkerton, Marin Scarlett, Maya-Gawonii Shabazz-Saleh, Anna Stiles, Maeve Sweeney, & J Min Wang
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Mosaic Design Submission
I had the opportunity to participate in a live brief to design a mosaic to celebrate 170 years of WM College, where I studied illustration. As a class, we collaborated with Hackney Mosaic Project, who eventually made the chosen design a permanent feature outside the college
Board Games
For a college project brief, I designed a series of commemorative stamps based on a topic of personal interest, with Royal Mail as the hypothetical client. Below, you can see a mockup of my stamp designs, complete with the packaging I created for them
Poetry Book Cover (practice brief)
I redesigned the cover of Gerda Mayer’s book of poems, A Heartache of Grass, in response to a college brief. I incorporated my own illustrations and a new colour palette while keeping the original text and font
Learn Something New About Yourself (practice brief)
This illustration was created as part of a short online course on editorial illustration. The creative prompt was Learn Something New About Yourself
The History of Emotions (self-initiated project)
In this self-initiated project, I developed my editorial illustration skills by creating a response to an existing magazine article. I chose a piece published in Mind magazine, written by Kitty Drake, which explores the history of our emotions. The images below are mock-ups demonstrating how my illustrations might appear in both printed and online magazine formats
Growing Pains
Made for and exhibited at Komok, Amsterdam in May 2023
Personal Projects
Habit Stack
The Introverts Kite Flying Club