"Julie and Nina's latest sprint resulted in Alga, a pocketable publication all about seaweed - the perfect subject matter for two illustrators with effortlessly wiggly, organic styles. As their fourth zine project together, the work furthers their exploration of what happens when both of their visual voices meet in one medium. The idea to trial this through the documentation of this particular plant species came from their summer swims: both live by the sea Julie in Sète, France, and Nina in Barcelona, Spain."
"As both Julie and Nina often work with screen printing, it was the obvious choice for the technique to reproduce their collaborative collection of drawings and collages into a publication. The illustrators decided to screenprint the zines cover and print its inner pages on a softly coloured stock with Risograph, with the help of Postfire Books who printed the pair's previous fanzine No hay rosas sin espinas."
"Like each iteration of this nature-focused publishing project, Alga stands as a documentation of the dialogue that took place between the artists on the very specific subject of seaweed - a way of showing their individual ways of interpreting one aspect of nature. These zines are now an integral part of their illustration practice and Julie and Nina "always look forward to this time working together", Julie ends."
Julie and Nina live by the sea in Sète and Barcelona and documented a variety of seaweed shapes and textures discovered during summer swims. Alga is the fourth collaborative zine that translates drawings and collages into a pocket-sized publication. The pair reproduced the work using screen printing for the cover and Risograph on softly coloured stock for the inner pages, with Postfire Books assisting the print run. One hundred copies were produced and exhibited in Warsaw at Kwiaciarnia Grafiki gallery, accompanied by a live screen printing workshop where participants printed seaweed-shaped impressions on clothes and bags. The project deepens the illustrators' collaborative practice.
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