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Homework # 4- Zine

Posted on September 12, 2012 by | 1 comment

From reading the 3 links, i have come to a conclusion that all zines are strictly made as a smaller “Mood Board”. Companies always liked to make zines even tho they bring back low profit and most people think its a waste of money. However if presented and showcased correctly a zine can do your campaign a great service but to have a decent zine, you have to look up good examples and really understand a zine’s purpose. In the creative thinking link that was posted i think the author said it best when he stated ” If we are interested in understanding the world, we need to ask serious questions about the institutions that teach us about that world.” That statement can also be related to zine’s in a way where, if someone wanted to make a zine that was worth making then they have to understand why and how a zine works and what people look for in a zine. That is the big difference in between making a Mood board and a real professional looking article that looks like its straight out of a newspaper.

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ZINES – Destiny Modeste

Posted on September 11, 2012 by | Leave a comment

It’s interesting, while living on this earth for 17 years I never thought about where these objects we use for informative entertainment evolved from. They’ve just been handed or advertised to me, giving me no real interest to question it. The reading explained the different characteristics of zines and what we need to know in order to make one. Prior to the assigned reading I had already heard about zines but never payed much attention to them. Zines come from magazines, which explains the many similarities they have. Zines remind me of online blogs, being that they can “be about whatever subject its creator decides upon, or it may contain a variety of subjects and writing styles within the same issue”, according to “Zine 101-A Quick Guide to Zines.” Zines do not seem to be that relevant in these times because there are online blogs and sites in which there is free publication accessible to anyone who needs it, as previously discussed in Blog Post 2. These hard copies are quickly dying, being replaced by blogs, and authors of zines should probably find and online web space available to make their own.

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