Side A / Poster
Side B / Zine
03 — Booklet Design
A single printed sheet that works two ways: an illustrated timeline poster on one side, folding down into a zine on the other, tracing 4,000 years of Iranian history from the pre-Aryan era through the Pahlavi dynasty, set in both Farsi and English. Printed in a limited run and displayed at an OCAD University exhibition.
Side A / Poster
Side B / Zine
The piece is designed to live as two different objects depending on how it's encountered. Laid flat, it reads as a full timeline poster: fifteen numbered dynasties annotated with dates, summaries, and Persian illustrations layered over a map of Iran. Folded, the same sheet becomes a zine, its cover built around a large illustrated wordmark of "ايران" torn through with texture, set against a single mustard-orange field.
Every dynasty entry is set in both English and Farsi, each annotated with its reign dates and a short summary of its legacy, from the Achaemenid Empire's founding of the first true Iranian empire under Cyrus the Great, through the Islamic Golden Age under the Seljuks, to the Pahlavi dynasty's modernization efforts before the 1979 Revolution. Persian illustrations, coins, manuscripts, and architectural details are layered throughout, tying each era back to its visual culture.