Typography Zine – Cassie Valenzuela Poon

For my typography zine I decided to research the first most impactful Mexican typographer, Ignacio Cumplido. I tried to think of a topic that wasn’t centred on western culture. Not to say that there is anything bad about it, I’d just prefer to take the liberty of being able to research whatever we want and find a topic that I won’t learn about in class. Ignacio Cumplido also spoke to me because I’m half Mexican and it was captivating to find an important person such as him as part of their history. I found that Mexico was delayed in catching up to the trend of printing, thus it was cool to see the inspiration Cumplido drew from the Europeans in order to popularize his work.

If I were to mark my project, I would give it an 7/10. I would take off a couple of marks because I find that my first layout is not as strong as it possibly could be and I would take off another because I could have managed my time better with this. It took me around 13 hours to complete it, this time includes sketching, researching, and assembling.