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JADE ABOUT ME  
Hi! I’m Jaidyn Smith, a MSLIS at University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign. I’ve been making forever and helping in libraries since the age of 16. My current focus right now is creating/ promoting programs that promotes the library as a creative space.





When I was making a poster for the Main Library’s
zine cart at Skeuomorph Press which is in the Fab Lab.
Weird how life intersects.


Casual Class Fit...(New!) For Fall 2025, I’ll be

Still on the Zine Team and Supervising at Ricker
A Practicum Student at Skeuomorph Press and on Semester 2 as Secretary for Skeuomorphics Club
Still an Engagement GA at the FabLab (Ask me how to use the lasercutter!)
Some other stuff I can’t quite say, yet ;)

For Summer 2025, I’ll be


A Graduate Assistant at the CU Fab Lab
Helping out at the BookLab Intensive (Yay!)
Apprenticing at Fresh Press

For Spring 2025, My Positions are

Zine Team at UIUC Library
Graduate Supervisor at Ricker Library of Architecture and Art
Graduate Coordinator for America Reads, America Counts
Secretary for the Skeuomorphics club





Outside of work I love
Making Zines and other weird art
Going to the theater (#AMCA-LISTER)
Hiking
Reading People’s personal, niche, forgotten blogs on stuff they like
Spending an abnormal amount of money on stamps because I still mail letters
Over-analyzing my music listening statistics
Stuff I’m sure is like totally helpful in the workplace (if you’re looking into hiring me)





Lowkey lost most of my data after leaving my last job (do yourself and locally save the stuff you make) but I’ll upload more when I find it + have the time to upload it
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CLICK HERE FOR WRITTEN UPDATES




More coming soon when I find the time to upload stuff...



Craft Update 1 -- July 29th, 2025

Its my first art update on my website (#yay)! Ever since I started working at the Fab Lab in June, I’ve been making a lot more. I think its a more of a thing where all the barriers to making were kind of removed. Its Summer so I have a bunch of free time. I can use all the equipment here for free. We’re expected to be making stuff during our shifts. It also helps that most of my coworkers are makers. They’re all super creative and driven people.
Anyways, lately, I’ve been using most of that energy for felt crafting. I’m not really sure how I landed on it. One of my favorite things I’ve made is my “hashtag heart” felt fridge magnet (which I later made into a hair clip). I kept seeing felt crowns on Tiktok and thought “I can do this!” Now I’m like 4.5 felt crowns in. I think the one I feel proudest of is my “#NYC LOVES YOU/ME/PUNK” one. It had pepperoni of 1/2/3 trains. It also has removable patches. I only have the “you,” “me,” and “punk,” patches done but I plan to make more later. 
Since that crown is a gift, I also made a reusuable envelope for it out of felt. I love how colorful I made it and cant wait to make more in the future. The one downside of it is it took literally forever to make. I’m praying that it only takes a couple of hours next time.
My dream projects with felt right now are making some sort of tapestry/ poster for Skeuomorph out of felt and a felt book. I think also doing one dedicated to Crass, the punk band, would be cool.
Haven’t been making a lot of zines lately. I guess I don’t feel the need to right now. I’ve been able to express my desires pretty well through my other crafts. I will say that the main zine I want to publish soon is one dedicated to like reducing consumption of new items. I have the text done for it. I just need to format it. I don’t usually do informational zines but I just really hate buying stuff new, ya’ know ?
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