Zine Making

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• Introducing the key components for reading and creating graphic design for print - type, colour and image, followed by layout, stock and print.
• A presentation on zines as examples of how key graphic design components interplay to form published outcomes.
• A roundtable discussion with a library of zines - where the group are prompted to talk through the varied usage of the key components of graphic design within the zines.
• An example of the type of zine participants will be producing will be shown and explained with a brief handed out with the eventual output aim for the course.

• An introduction to Adobe InDesign. How to control type, colour and image within a provided template, using a selection content provided.
• With an emphasis on immediacy – A4 folded zines will be printed from the InDesign introduction exercises and the outcomes will be discussed as a group.
• The group are prompted to spend the week away selecting a theme and collecting content for the next zine making session.

• Each participant is invited to present their chosen theme and display their content options. The group critique will be structured to reference the key components of graphic design for planning the layout of the zines.
• For the second half of the session, each participant, equipped with notes from the discussion, will work on executing their ideas by laying out their zines on InDesign.

• The layout of zines on Adobe InDesign will continue and result in printed final pieces.
• The group come together to discuss the final outcomes and several of each are printed to encourage swapping and sharing of final product.
• A zine hand-out is gifted to all participants with zine making and graphic design resource lists.

• “Read” and critique printed graphic design
• Understand and implement the components of creating visual graphics
• Use Adobe indesign to layout image and type
• Implement graphic design theory and technical practice to produce a zine of self-initiated or directed ideas