Quaranzine

About

By mid-2020, the word "unprecedented" had lost all meaning. Designers — like everyone else — were processing a world that had been turned upside down, and no client brief was going to capture that. So we made something for ourselves. Quaranzine was a 12-page collaborative zine created during the height of the pandemic, born out of a simple prompt: show us how you're feeling. No brand guidelines, no stakeholder feedback, no deliverables — just designers given space to be honest.

Challenges

Five designers contributed original spreads, each one a distinct and personal response to the shared strangeness of that moment. The result was raw, eclectic, and entirely human — a snapshot of a creative team finding outlets and staying connected through their craft when the world had gone quiet.

Roles + Team

Quaranzine wasn't a client project, but it reflects something important about how I think about building and leading creative teams. Great design culture isn't just about output — it's about giving people the freedom to make things that matter to them. This was one small way of doing that.

Design: Carlos Salazar, Hannah Tsvayberg, Alberto Siorida, Ethan Blouin, Alyssa Almeida, Laura Morales, Kevin Clancy