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A look into the zine as a fundamental print medium.
What is or is not a zine? What are the inherent properties of a zine? How do zines function as a print medium? When creating a zine, the designer, artist, or creator holds the power in terms of outcome, distribution, and content.
Printed using Risograph MH9450 (Black, Bright Red, and Federal Blue Inks) on Pop-Tone Wild Cherry Cardstock, Speckletone Starch Rain Text-Weight, and Clearprint Vellum at Pratt Institute.
9” x 10”
18 Pages
Ring Bound
First Edition of 20
Fall 2024
What is or is not a zine? What are the inherent properties of a zine? How do zines function as a print medium? When creating a zine, the designer, artist, or creator holds the power in terms of outcome, distribution, and content.
Printed using Risograph MH9450 (Black, Bright Red, and Federal Blue Inks) on Pop-Tone Wild Cherry Cardstock, Speckletone Starch Rain Text-Weight, and Clearprint Vellum at Pratt Institute.
9” x 10”
18 Pages
Ring Bound
First Edition of 20
Fall 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.