Sirenas
Zine design with artworks by Daniel Echagoyen
Sirenas is a fanzine that includes paintings and details from a series of studies on Goya’s paintings that the painter produced.
Client
Daniel Echagoyen is a Spanish artist based in Spain. He explores diverse topics and techniques in his work.
His style is known for using dense brush strokes, tonal contrasts, and saturated yet harmonized color palettes. His technique has gone through different stages in which he has carried out studies of diverse influences.
His narrative is erratic and criptic, interlocking visual concepts with ethereal and unintelligible topics and ideas.
Design of the zine
The zine was proposed as a collaboration in which the artist could show his artworks giving great freedom to its design. Some aspects decided before starting the design stage were artworks in black and white, empty spaces and imbalance. 50 copies were carried out and the artist customized them with hand-drawn doodles and texts.
The final product is a black and white zine printed on cream paper and presented inside a plastic zip-lock bag. The content mixes the painter’s artworks with some texts.
The typeface used in the zine is Lectura-Grotesk, an original design by Quique Ojeda inspired in grotesk typefaces of the Swiss-Style movement.
The zine also has blank spaces, intended to create tension or also to be intervened by the artist after printing.
Credits
Paintings: Daniel Echagoyen
Graphic design: Quique Ojeda
Typography: Quique Ojeda
Hand-made customization: Daniel Echagoyen
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