Thursday, 12 October 2017

Self Publication - Zines

This session we had to listen to a lecture on the values and disadvantages of zines while scribing. It talked about the availability of out-of-print books and the pros and cons of self publication. The idea of this exercise is to graphically make notes to reflect on later relating to create a zine on.



Based on the notes I made, I tried to make a narrative. The idead of intimacy with technology fascinated me and gave me strong visuals of an imagined technology revolution. I used eastern propaganda visuals for inspiration.





Collaborating with a partner, we worked out our strengths between us to create a zine of both of our ideas. We both themed our zines around futuristic elements however his work was more punk influenced. I loved his use of colour and I think our styles complimented each other well already. We decided to continue the themes of encouraging technology as an independent artist. With these themes in mind we mind mapped and created a mini zine with the message of encouraging the idea of technology and making your own content.






Continuing with the themes of zines, this workshop was with Nick. We had to bring in an important object to us.  with this object we constructed an entire zine based on the shape, the visuals and what we thought the object would say to us.


I have since the initial workshop worked on a variety of personal zines as a hobby.