ZIG MAGAZINE
Three sections of the magazine "Zig" describing correlation between the concept of time, music and Shakespeare sonnets. Starting from the concept of "Time" and hand made sculptures, the philosophy of the three connected concepts are represented by the typography and the layout.
LOGO design
Part 1. Time
Concept: Time is change
All the life forms are constantly changing. People are changing, both bodily and spiritually. Time a measurement, an indication of change. The glacier moves hundreds of meters per year. The distance it moves is the glacier's time. The rock is eating up by the wind.The gradually wrinkled surface is the rock’s time. Time is the ghost of the past and projection from future that talks in a voice that hardly to be noticed but once you do, you notice that you’ve changed.
According to the concept, four sculptures are made to indicates the phases of life.
Then, the photos of the sculptures are put into the magazine pages.
Part 2. Music
"Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music"
——Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This part of the magazine explores the similar rhythm that can be found in both the new music notations and the architectures designed by Zaha Hadid.
Part 3. Shakespeare
This part of the magazine explores Shakespeare's sonnets. Typography is used to represent the iambic pentameter of the sonnets, which is the lines of verses with five metrical feet, each consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. Different fonts are used to represent different syllables, then the edited sonnets are used as artworks in the magazine. Here are several versions of sonnets:
