Ozymandias, the Overview Effect, Mar.2023

148x210mm, 12 pages

Eco100 natural 80gsm, Officemax blissful blue 80gsm (cover)

An essay exploring the personal and political implications of the experience of the sublime. Words by Jamie Adam.

Meditations on Wizzard's 1973 hit, I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday, Mar.2023

148x148mm, 16 pages

Eco100 natural 80gsm, Trophee intensive red 80gsm (cover)

If you love Christmas, you may be a communist. Words by Jamie Adam.

Best Political Zine, Kirikiriroa Hamilton Zinefest, 2023

Communism and Flight: An Incomplete History (of Failure), Feb.2023

148x210mm, 28 pages

Eco100 natural 80gsm, Officemax blissful blue 80gsm (cover)

A zine featuring a timeline of communism and flight in history. Words by Jamie Adam.

Lab.—Imm., Nov.2022

website

An archive of all the documents, building plans, letters, photographs, recipes and emphemera relating my dad's life as a chef. Part of the ongoing project Lab.—Imm.

Lab.—Imm. (Golden Empire), Nov.2022

200x270mm, 56 pages

Laser copier and Risograph federal blue and brown.

Colourfield kraft 120gsm (cover), Eco100 natural 80gsm, Munken cream 80gsm, Officemax crafty canary 80gsm

This publication was part of a project which explored family and heritage through my dad’s experiences as a chef and moving from China to New Zealand. Borrowing the idea of a memory palace from Kerry Ann Lee’s work, The Unavailable Memory of Gold Coin Café, I used the memory palace as an informal archive, collecting information through immigration documents, restaurant ephemera, recorded conversations with my dad. Golden Empire is the first of the project, documenting the process to get to Aotearoa and the first restaurant he worked after arriving.

Men Should Weep, Jul.2022

148x210mm, 12 pages

Risograph federal blue and brown on Munken cream 80gsm, Trophee sunflower 80gsm (cover)

Edition of 60

A short zine about men, crying and capitalism. Words by Jamie Adam.

Runner up, People's Choice Award, Auckland Zinefest, 2022.

Have you eaten?(Dumpling Edition), Jun.2022

180x250mm, 52 pages

Munken cream 80gsm, Flour bag (cover), Embroidery thread

Centred around cooking with my dad and documents my attempts to make his recipes. As I figure out how to make these dumlings, I am also trying to figure out how to design a publication.

blueskywhitecloud, Oct.2021

Interactive website

This project was inspired by the instructional nature of Sol Lewitt’s Wall Drawings and the idea of teaching the user/viewer. Chinese characters are made up of strokes which have a particular position and order. I wanted to explore the formation and meaning of words through signs: language and image.

Cliffe, Sep.2021

Masthead Typography Project

Shapes are found in everyday objects around us. Cliffe is a typographic exploration started by retrieving discarded boxes from the recycling bin. I flatten out the box nets and extracted the shapes created by the folds.

Released to UNHRC, Jun.2021

205x292mm, 16 pages

Tracing paper 120gsm (cover), Kraft 80gsm

This publication is an exploration of images and text through three randomly assigned categories; earth, national and personal. By using the definition of national as a person belonging to a certain country, I related that to my own experience as a child of migrants, extended that to my mother’s own experience and even further to the collective experience of the Vietnamese refugee crisis.

Run Lola Run (again), Jun.2021

Rotoscope Animation

A redesign of a film opening title sequence exploring storytelling and motion graphic techniques. I chose Run Lola Run(1998), a German experimental thriller film, focusing on the idea of running in circles using objects from key moments in the film.