I’m Kianna Mkhonza, a Publications student at OCAD University. I’m a multidisciplinary designer focusing on books (covers and interiors) in both their print and digital formats. My work also includes arts such as collage and found poetry. Most recently I designed and executed the 2023 Ottawa International Animation Festival program guide, and designed a chapbook for End of the Line Press, a new independent press in Toronto that aims to platform trans voices. Currently working on finishing my undergraduate degree, though, in the meantime, I want to keep working on publishing projects that amplify queer and neurodivergent voices and perspectives. I am based in a suburb of the GTA, though can often be found working from anywhere in the world—next being the Catskill Mountains over the holidays.
* The site title "yellowlog" comes from the painting The Yellow Log by Edvard Munch. It's a lovely painting, capturing a chopped log in a winter forest.
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I love fish & chips & tea, movie going, collaging, reading, writing stories about alien invasions, wood panelled basements, snow days, Fantasia (1940), Harold and Maude (1971), empire biscuits, Christmas dinner, maple donuts, Modest Mouse, and the adventures of TinTin
And, of course, ART!
Favourite ship names:
USS Bear
HMS Blossom
HMS Terror
Noosfera (polar supply and research ship)
Morning (originally Morgenen)
Nimrod
Yelcho
Fave book titles:
Cloud Cuckoo Land, Rat Jelly, The Cinnamon Peeler, Lonesome Dove, Magnetic North, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness, Peach Blossom Paradise, Pumpkin Moonshine, The Amazing Bone, Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns, Neon Vernacular, Island Zombie: Iceland Writings
