For our final brief for the semester we had to create a zine. What is a zine? A zine is a less-influenced-by-popular-culture-conventions form of a magazine. It's purpose it to advertise you as a person, agency, organization in any way you see fit. It is generally something that is put together in a format that is as cheap as possible and then photocopied and distributed as need be.
We were briefed with the task of creating a zine in a group that was metaphorically a design agency, had it been in the "real world". We had to come up with an agency name for our design agency, use a specific theme and run with it throughout "issue one" of our zine.
My "design agency" came up with the name Flint, the conceptual link behind it being that we are instigators of great things. After a long process of finding the right way to conceptually design our zine, we arrived at the ever so marvelous point of using lemon juice to write secret messages on the paper. People would then have to hold a flame underneath the page to reveal the message. Therefore, when you received our zine, you would receive a "blank" book with a box of matches. We decided to go with the theme: a world ruled by designers. We put our own spin on it and altered it to read LITTLE TRADE SECRETS IN A WORLD RULED BY DESIGNERS.
Below are some pictures of the already burnt book, we had to hand in one blank one and one already "burnt".
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| This is the front cover [we named our zine issue one HUSH HUSH to extend the concept] |
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| Page One: The theme page [designed by Adeline van Eck] |
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| Page Two: Design Secret One [designed by Natalie Retief] |
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| Page Three: Design Secret Two [designed by Adeline van Eck] |
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| Page Four: Design Secret Three [designed by Lara Heley] |
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| Page Five: Design Secret Four [designed by Amy Soule (me)] |
We thought it came out pretty well, and I am so glad I got to steal Adeline's camera to take some decent photos for a change.
So long.
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