the making
of a magazine
Challenge 
Create a new magazine with a sustainable audience in an oversaturated market.
Solution 
Anti-ableist print magazines are scarce for the disabled community, despite being the largest minority group in the world. Fettle offers a space to connect sick and disabled creators and amplify their work.
timeline
11 weeks
Skills
Layout
Art Direction
Team
Me Me Me
Tools
Figma
InDesign
Illustrator
Photoshop
Discover
OUr reADERS
Our readers are looking for connection, inspiration, disability justice, representation, visual art/ists, and activism resources. They span the disabled community—from visible, sometimes visible, and invisible disabilities to disability allies.
That’s why Fettle offers articles, interviews, pen pal letters, reading recommendations, visual art, and essays by disabled folks.
Create
who we are
Fettle is a biannual community-focused magazine by and for disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent humans. Visible and invisible. Diagnosed or undiagnosed.
We are committed to elevating the work of sick & disabled creators, especially QTPOC, to increase representation and provide counter narratives to ableist thought to better exist together in our bodies.
reflect
Flatplan & system
The most successful part of this process was my color-coded flat plan where I laid out my quiet, medium, and loud spreads to set the pacing of the magazine.
For the next issue, I would further systematize specific headline and layout styles based on content type to make the design more drag and drop.
implement
