Denial Magazine
(Context)
Denial Magazine is a handmade editorial project that revives the emotional rawness of grunge.
(Deliverables)
Handmade editorial magazine
Analogue layout and collage
Experimental typography
Visual storytelling
Printed publication
Motion trailer for documentary concept
Anchored in the spirit of Kurt Cobain, the magazine explores angst, rebellion, and vulnerability through rough textures, torn edges, and analogue processes.
Every layout was created by hand-cutting, scanning, layering, to reject digital polish and embrace imperfection.
This project reimagines grunge not as nostalgia, but as a living emotional experience, told through instinctive, tactile design.
The spreads were designed to shift between tension, vulnerability, and distortion, using layout as an emotional pacing tool.
Disrupted grids, broken compositions, and layered typography create an instinctive reading flow that mirrors the themes inside.
Every spread experiments with how visual rhythm, tight compression versus sudden openness, can guide emotional response, letting readers feel unease, nostalgia, and rupture without needing perfect clarity.
The visual language of Denial Magazine was built through raw, hands-on experimentation.
I worked instinctively with found materials, ink, paint, leaves, and distortion tools, creating textures, lyrics, and icons by hand.
Smudging, tearing, layering, and scanning were used to build a sense of real-world imperfection.
Every mark and surface was made to feel emotionally raw, forming the visual backbone of the magazine’s restless, imperfect identity.
Audio part of the experience!
As an extension of Denial Magazine, I created a motion trailer for a hypothetical Netflix documentary reconnecting audiences and introducing the current generation to the raw emotion of grunge.
Using layered analogue textures, distorted typography, and gritty editing, the trailer channels angst, rebellion, and nostalgia visually.
Fast cuts, hand-drawn overlays, and a non-linear narrative mirror the fragmented, visceral experience of the era.
Every decision, from pacing to visual distortion, was made to reflect the spirit of resistance.