“I hate your phone throw it away”

A zine about smartphones and social media – Is this
how much we want them to control our lives?

The project reflects on how we use social media as a means to pacify our emotions in moments of discomfort. It highlights the dangers of algorithmic recommendations insidiously shaping our desires, and eventually, our identity. 

The text is broken down into small fragments and housed in a “notes app” interface. The flow of reading is periodically interrupted by the appearance of “push notifications”, a comment on how our phones are killing our attention span and prolonged thinking.

Read the full zine here. Featuring text by Sisyphus 55 "consuming content to make my brain go quiet" and artwork by Filip Ćustić.

Early iterations.

A software interface (WinDirStat, a graphical disk usage analyser) reminded me of how our brains compartmentalise emotions and memories. I meshed a screenshot of WinDirStat with a distorted visual I had previously created, producing a series of abstract images that later became the pattern on the envelope.

Saddle stitch binding—using only 2 stitches to resemble the iPhone volume button.

These visuals represent “mental static”—the overwhelming mental noise induced by digital overload.

They symbolise how our memory and cognitive space are now deeply entangled with our devices.