This hand-printed and hand-bound zine documents fleeting moments from a two-month stay in Shanghai. Through illustration, the book traces everyday scenes and quiet observations, forming a visual memoir that reflects the city’s rhythm, density, and atmosphere.
SEE FULL CASE STUDYShanghai Memories
Silkscreen Printing
This accordion-fold zine documents a summer return to Wuxi and Shanghai.
The illustrations are limited to deep blue and vibrant green, reflecting the intense heat, saturated skies, and lush greenery characteristic of summer in both cities.
Summer is Green and Blue
Silkscreen Printing
This accordion-fold zine focuses on tropical plants from Brazil.
Each plant illustration is printed at a 1:1 scale, matching the plant’s actual size. As readers unfold the book, rulers printed along the edges allow them to physically measure and compare the plants across pages.
Vaso de Samba
Accordion-fold Zine
This hand-printed risograph zine illustrates a peaceful autumn trip to Beacon, New York.
Printed double-sided on a single sheet, the paper is folded into eight panels and slit at the center to form the zine.
Autumn in Beacon
RISO
Using the forms and shapes of Alvar Aalto’s chairs, this zine presents a custom typeface built from curves, joints, and structural lines.
Rather than a conventional type specimen, the book treats letterforms as objects, inviting the reader to see Aalto’s designs through rhythm, repetition, and variation.
Aalto Type Zine
Silkscreen Printing
Every time you reach into your pocket for your earphones, but no matter how nicely wrapped, the cords have inevitably tangled themselves into a knot of frustration.
Reimagined in print as a frame-by-frame flip book.
SEE Original AnimationTangling Up
Flip Book
A collection of moments where our printed material find new homes: in independent bookstores, studios, and friends’ living spaces. We love seeing our printed material live beyond the table and find new homes in different environments.
Fishball on Display
2024–Present
Fishball Editions is an artist-run imprint by Studio Fishball, an independent design practice by Yiting Nan and Justin Zhang. While Studio Fishball works across motion, design, and illustration, Fishball Editions focuses on self-initiated artist books, zines and printed material.
Rooted in their background in graphic design, the imprint explores bold, vibrant visual languages through graphic forms. Their work often center on everyday scenes and objects, translating observation, memory, and small moments into illustration series.