Mushies is a Zine that I created to practice book design and show off the mushrooms that I found in 2025. It gave me an opportunity to figure out book layouts, covers and how to integrate my illustrations into a physical collective, format.

I created Illustrated iconography to add interest to my photographic pages and to illustrate my reactions and thoughts, this works especially well as I don't generally want too many pictures of my real face everywhere. I also created illustrations of some of the stand out mushrooms I found to be displayed between photographic pages, with their name and date found underneath. 

The zine is also created using a limited colour scheme of 4 colours, adding an extra layer of challenge to the whole project as I always find it difficult to do in digital work. 

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I'm showcasing the front and back covers and the pages that have the most illustrated content and embellishments.