Consumere

Consumere is a love letter to creators waiting for the right moment to start. The ones stuck in a loop of consuming inspiration but finding it hard to take the plunge and actually make something. Consumere is Latin for to use up, to waste, to exhaust. It once described tuberculosis, a slow illness that consumed the body from the inside. That description eerily overlapped with something I was noticing in myself. How consuming ideas, references, and inspiration started to feel more productive than creating. How making something real meant facing the gap between what I envisioned and what I could actually produce. Risking something that feels amateur, imperfect, and unpolished compared to the image we built in our minds. This zine was made by a fellow perfectionist, sharing something imperfect, and encouraging everyone in a similar place to just start.

Yasmine Samir Abdelrahman is a Toronto-based product and graphic designer with a background in Interaction Design from Sheridan and experience at RBC, Interac, and Super.com. Consumere takes its name from the Latin root of consumption, meaning to use up and exhaust, and grew from her own experience of consuming inspiration instead of creating. Find more of Yasmine on IG, @yasi.archival

Tokyo, Japan; 145 mm x 200 mm; 16 pages; Risograph printed; Pamphlet stitch