A colorful, pixelated illustration of a vintage instant camera reminiscent of a riso print. The camera, crafted by an illustrator, has a cube-like shape and features vibrant gradients of green, purple, and pink, giving it a retro, artistic appearance with a protruding photo.
  • 2023
  • Risograph
  • Personal
  • zine

STARDUST

I designed this zine about the feeling of wanting to change everything around you. Stardust is an experimental zine that explores the complex emotions of powerlessness, feeling stuck and isolation. In this zine feelings of smallness and invisibility are the central themes, alongside hope and the desire for change. I am trying to write more, I love writing and making poems and thought it would be nice to design a zine with text. I am not used to sharing those poems, but I was working on this and it just came to be spontaneously. I did the writing and designing of the illustrations together, so it was a really nice creative process. I sold out of them very quickly, and had lovely conversations with people about how they often feel the same way. Stardust really turned into a tool for connection and conversation, and will hopefully, if I can get the funding, be the base of an animation which explores similar feelings in the future. 

 

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Ellis Tolsma

Illustrator & animator

info@ellistolsma.nl

+316 40818727

(call only for urgent inquiries)

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Studio Adress

Grave van Solmsstraat 2

3515EN Utrecht

The Netherlands

A small cat with a soft, light grey coat and a pink bow gazes upward, resembling the whimsical style of a colorful riso print. Set against a white backdrop, its features pop like an illustration by an Utrecht-based motion designer.
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