Today’s Plan:
- WTF is a Zine?
WTF is a Zine?
As I’ve previously indicated, next week we will begin working on the Crucible Fall 2021 Design project. I will provide more concrete details for the project on Monday, but here’s some preliminary info:
- For this project, you will have the option of working individually or in teams of two
- You will develop a front and back cover for the issue, using student submitted art
- The aesthetic, stylistic inspiration for your design should be influenced by the zine
So that last one leads us to the question of the day: WTF is a Zine? Kenneth Burke would remind us, via the properties of identification, association, and the negative, that such a question also asks us WTF is(n’t) a Zine? Such is any ontological project haunted: to seek what something is, its properties essential and inessential, we inevitably bound upon its boundaries, borders, limits.
And so I turn to Google, contemporary arbitrator of the market’s interminable wrangle:
Okay, so what adjectives can we already use to talk about zines?
Some more resources:
- BinderyMike, which takes me to Zinester Directory
- From directory, catalogue
- From directory, see potatofuzz as well [juxtaposition of clean, typeset poems and chaotic drawnings
- Let’s Talk about Zine Aesthetic
- Let’s talk about “literary magazine non traditional layout”
- 80 Cool Zine and InDesign Templates
Homework
Complete Adobe Classroom in a Book chapter on Printing and Exporting
