On Zines
Hungarian Samizdat
What is a Zine?
Banned Books
Library Cards
How to Make a Magic Zine.
Archive on Zines
Based in Brooklyn, NY
An investigation into banned books and the people who read them. Collected library cards from the backs of library books, each stamped with the previous borrower’s check out date and year. This collection of cards documents the everyday, common books that are being banned throughout the United States and calls into question why these books are so dangerous.
Printed on Risograph MH9450 using bright red, kelly green, and burgundy red inks, on Speckletone Madero Beach Cover-Weight at Pratt Institute.
5” x 3”
48 Pages, 4 signatures
Kettle Stitch
First Edition of 15
Winter 2024
Printed on Risograph MH9450 using bright red, kelly green, and burgundy red inks, on Speckletone Madero Beach Cover-Weight at Pratt Institute.
5” x 3”
48 Pages, 4 signatures
Kettle Stitch
First Edition of 15
Winter 2024
By Natalie Dziadzio
Zine production and distribution massively influences culture.
Designers, as the voices in the zine, have a critical role in the proper communication of these beliefs as well as the spread of them, giving them a hand on society and allowing them to shape organized interests as well as respond to changes in economic, political, or religious conditions that may be affecting society as a whole.
The zine’s inherent and unique properties allow it to serve as a medium through which the graphic designers and artists authoring them have a hand on culture.