Creative Associate - Graphic Design & Illustration

Artist behind Issue Three: Take Root’s Cover Art

Chicago-based artist, Zeinab Ajasa, has been illustrating and writing for the majority of her life. Birth ties to America, Nigeria, and England inform her work and has helped her come to terms with not having a concrete place to call home. Visually, drawings and writing are often merged into a hybrid to create rich and layered artworks. Poetically, she borders the line between matter-of-fact and nonsensical, usually finding a happy middle with stream-of-consciousness. Illustratively, she deconstructs the rules of comics and makes panelless, compositional stories using experimental typography. She is inspired by the world around her and the people that she chooses to have in her life. The smallest most insignificant thing could catch her eye, and she’ll write or draw about it using type to express the feeling. Life is so rich and full, that even the smallest things, like a ladybird crawling on a window screen, is worth writing about.

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