The challenge was to build a narrative through the relationship between image and typography, capturing the feeling of being inside a daydream while creating a clear emotional progression throughout the zine. The story follows a girl imagining a life in New York before she has ever experienced it, and I was interested in how her romanticized perception of the city could shape the visual direction. I approached New York as a dreamlike “what if” space, using a limited palette of blues to create visual cohesion while giving the city a sense of unreality. The imagery moves between recognizable New York scenes, crowds, silhouettes, and moments of solitude, contrasting the city's energy and expansiveness with the intimacy of the girl's imagined world. Together, these elements reflect how a place can become something deeply personal before we ever experience it for ourselves. I wanted the zine to feel as personal as the daydream itself, so I chose a typewriter-inspired treatment to give the writing a nostalgic quality, as though the girl had written the story herself. I carried this feeling into the physicality of the zine through texture, repetition, and subtle imperfections, creating a handmade quality that reinforces the intimacy of the narrative. Throughout the layouts, I integrated typography and imagery using scale, placement, and pacing to guide the reader through the girl's evolving perspective. The final line, “maybe it’s time I choose you New York City,” becomes the turning point, shifting the story from romanticizing an imagined future to considering it as a possibility she can actively choose. The resulting zine transforms an internal daydream into a tangible visual narrative, using design to communicate not just a place, but the moment someone begins to imagine a different direction for themselves.