Seam. Issue 1, sightfeeling.

2025

1 volume : colour illustrations, 33 cm. + 3D glasses.

"The zine aims to create opportunities for people to understand why the fashion industry is inaccessible and unequal to people with common disabilities around the world. I hope to make a difference by unveiling these issues and helping to include people with disabilities in the increasingly prevailing fashion community. Design features include: • Vacuum-formed, transparent zine sleeve to allow for the design of the cover to be felt as the clothes were • Branding representing human features (hands, eyes, mouths) , linking to the focus of different senses in the body throughout the zine • Colour scheme using contrasting colours for clarity and to be colour-blind friendly • Editorial fashion features designed especially with visual impairments in mind • Interviews and features with leading voices in the disabled arts community in england. • Fabrics and textures from the editorials featured throughout the zine • Ability to use taste, smell and touch in the ‘sensing differences’ editorial through scented fabrics, edible paper and collaged paper and fake piercings. • Braille used throughout the physical magazine. • Audio used throughout the digital zine, accessed through QR codes • Designed based off conversations and experiences from people with visual impairments. Below my portfolio page for the zine is linked where you can see a flick through of the entire physical zine"--https://joefernandezstudio.cargo.site/Seam-Zine

Outer case is made of moulded plastic.