Dreamspace
Mission to Recover Lost Dreams
Senior Capstone Thesis
Fall 2020
We live in a bubble, with a whole vast expanse of unknown just beyond it. As humans, we have only explored and researched a small portion of it, and there is so much we still have yet to know. I have always loved outerspace. I loved learning about it growing up, reading my astrology charts, finding constellations in the night sky, or watching space movies. It has always been present in my life, however it also gets ignored a fair amount.
For my thesis topic, I chose to write a love letter dedicated to outerspace. I told it all about my hopes, dreams, feelings, and memories that have been lost and forgotten. I chose to format it into a zine that can be printed in bright neon colors on the Risograph, and uses holographic foils. My goal is to create a beautiful statement piece, that could be continuously read, passed on, and cherished. In doing so, I hope to recover the lost dreams of the reader, as I have recovered my own.
Encased in the envelope with the zine, the reader will also receive a poster designed with elements from the zine, holographic stickers, and a custom mission patch for completing the journey through Dreamspace VOL. 1.
In the first volume of the Dreamspace envelope, you receive the Dreamspace Vol. 1 book, a mission patch, a poster and holographic stickers that to the next mission.
A manifesto I created through a poster series to represent the technology, growth, capitalization and both the positive and negative impacts it has had in our communication and ambitions. Later, explaining how we need to change our perceptions of the planet. This poster series lives in the world of Dreamspace as a grounding “back to earth” moment.
Mini Zine - Space Exploration
Inspired by the Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
This mini-zine is what originally inspired the concept for Dreamspace, and now remains as a kind of prequel to the series. This short story explores theories of space, the vast expanse of emptiness, and a short love letter. That love letter becomes a part of Dreamspace’s structure and the root of the inspiration to create a book about that longing, melancholy feeling with that glimmer of hope and dreams we each have in our lives.