Zines: Term 1 task
Inspo in the iCentre
Try browsing through these publications:
Try browsing through these publications:
- Frankie
- Frankie Spaces
- Peppermint
- Teen Breathe
Online Inspo
- 8 zines you need to read (@adolscent)
- Download radical zines (open culture)
- Broken Pencil a mega-zine dedicated exclusively to exploring independent creative action. Published four times a year, each issue of Broken Pencil features reviews of hundreds of zines and small press books, plus comics, excerpts from the best of the underground press, interviews, original fiction and commentary on all aspects of the indie arts.
- Explainer: Zines (The Conversation)
- 51 ideas for your next zine (Seagreen Zines)
- 51 more ideas for your next zine (Seagreen zines)
- ARTstor Search for the word "zine" or type artworktype:(fliers) or artworktype:(posters) to limit your results to fliers and/or posters, an often related medium.
Online how to guides
How to make a zine (the creative independent)
A beginners guide to making a zine (vice.com)
How to make a zine (vimeo video) There might be an infinite number of ways to make a zine. This video shows how to make one handy and common type: a half-size, staple-bound booklet.
How to make a zine (Rookie magazine)
How to make a zine temple with InDesign
Zine making resources
Books in the iCentre:
Todd, Mark and Pearl, Ester. Whatcha mean, what's a zine? The art of making zines and mini comics. 741.5/TOD Brent, Bill and Biel, Joe. Make a zine!: when words and graphics collide 070.5/BRE Goodman, Timothy. Sharpie Art Workshop: Techniques and ideas for transforming your world 741.26/GOO McKennhan, Valerie. The complete book of chalk lettering: create and develop your own style 745.6/MCK Stum, Tracey Lee. The art of chalk: techniques and inspiration for creating art with chalk 741.2/STU Also check out other how to draw books on the creative trolley and in the Picture Fiction collection. All VIBE reference books are currently held at the iCentre circulation counter. Please ask a staff member for these titles. |
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Zine Content
1) Ask yourself what you're aiming to achieve through your zine. What are the main conceptual and visual approaches that you want to bring forward and share with others? The answer to this question will help you to determine how you're going to want it to look, and what you want to include in terms of themes and ideas. Comic strips, visual narratives, artwork, photographs, reviews, fiction, poetry - the potential list is endless, but it's best to nail it down in the early stage of planning.
2) Work with your team to review what content you wish to include. Decide on whether your content is FACT or OPINION, REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS or CREATIVE ENDEAVOUR. Your choices are endless. f you are producing a text-based zine, the way you write up the content that goes into the zine is vital. Content with substance that offers something of real interest to the reader is going to make your zine stand out. (check on the link to 51 ideas for your next zine)
3) Research. Its important to make sure your content is:
2) Work with your team to review what content you wish to include. Decide on whether your content is FACT or OPINION, REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS or CREATIVE ENDEAVOUR. Your choices are endless. f you are producing a text-based zine, the way you write up the content that goes into the zine is vital. Content with substance that offers something of real interest to the reader is going to make your zine stand out. (check on the link to 51 ideas for your next zine)
3) Research. Its important to make sure your content is:
- Relevant
- Interesting
- factually correct
Zine content: free to use images
Below are some sources for finding Creative Commons licensed or public domain images. Remember to give credit when attribution is required.
- Creative Commons Search Photographers, designers, artists, and other content creators can assign Creative Commons licenses to their works. This is an easy way to allow others to use your work for their projects without jumping through an array of legal hurdles. Search for Creative Commons licensed resources to use in your own projects.
- Flickr Many Flickr images contain Creative Commons licenses (see above). Be sure to use the Creative Commons filter to find images you can easily reuse.
- Google Images When looking for public domain or creative commons licensed material, use the "Usage Rights" filter or add site:.gov to the end of your search to locate image on government websites.
- Pexels Download free, high-resolution stock images that have been licensed for reuse without attribution or added to the public domain.
- Pixabay Download free, high-resolution stock images that have been licensed for reuse without attribution or added to the public domain.
- IconFinder Find vector icons to use in your publications; use the "license type" and "price" filters to find free options that are licensed for reuse.
- Noun Project Find icons and other small-scale images added by graphic designers from around the world explicitly to be reused and shared by others. All free icons must include an attribution statement when reused.