kore!

Continuing in my experimentation, this bind is made as a split-boards bind and despite some hiccups I found myself really liking the result! The hinges open without much pushback and the book feels so sturdy. I think I might have a new binding style...

I also added some cheekiness to the project. I used the fanmade emojis made by the zine team to decorate the front and back endpapers. The result? Mini-Ethos inviting me as I flip the covers!! (with the exception of ice cream Etho. noooooooo). To all the fanartists who made these, you all rock!

And finally, I had a sudden thought at the last minute as to the design of the cover label. In Malaysia, the bus networks here used to have these old tickets that are now fondly remembered as memorabilia. I looked at them one day and realized that these would be perfect to bedight the zine! So I drafted a cover label based on these bus tickets and printed them onto some leftover paper. It looks so beautiful!

Plus, the combination of the label, black bookcloth, red strip, and green-yellow endpapers create an almost Japanese aesthetic to the whole cover, which kinda fits as Ethoslab's skin is Kakashi from Naruto (and that his favourite color is green too!).

colourless version bc why not