Secret Maps & Instructions
Prompt
Create a zine that invites the viewer to discover something hidden or explore something through a series of instructions, a puzzle or riddle. You could use maps, asking the viewer to find something or travel on a particular route in the city, a library, or in a specific landscape. Or you could give instructions for a particular activity, whether it's a play on something real, historic or imaginary. Your zine could be political, environmental, poetic, but must utilize some kind of structure of invitation to explore. Zine structure is your choice. You will need to create an edition of six.
Project Guidelines
Book Structure: Your choice
Final book size: Your choice
Number of Page Spreads: At least 6. Consider adding an introductory sequence w/ title page and a colophon at the end.
Image and/or text: No restrictions
Color: Your choice
Paper: Your choice
Printing/reproduction: Your choice
Edition size: 6
GRADING
20 Points Total
5 Conceptual development (ideas for the content and the relationship between type, image, object and idea of your zine)
5 Design (composition, rendering, typography, page sequencing, etc.)
5 Craftsmanship (print, folding, sewing, etc.)
5 Completion (zines are 100% complete)
TIMELINE
11/28: Critique
POSSIBLE TECHNIQUES/STRUCTURES
Turkish Map Fold
Tetra Flexagon
Create a zine that invites the viewer to discover something hidden or explore something through a series of instructions, a puzzle or riddle. You could use maps, asking the viewer to find something or travel on a particular route in the city, a library, or in a specific landscape. Or you could give instructions for a particular activity, whether it's a play on something real, historic or imaginary. Your zine could be political, environmental, poetic, but must utilize some kind of structure of invitation to explore. Zine structure is your choice. You will need to create an edition of six.
Project Guidelines
Book Structure: Your choice
Final book size: Your choice
Number of Page Spreads: At least 6. Consider adding an introductory sequence w/ title page and a colophon at the end.
Image and/or text: No restrictions
Color: Your choice
Paper: Your choice
Printing/reproduction: Your choice
Edition size: 6
- Brainstorm ideas and create some sketches. Will you write something for this assignment, or use appropriated text(s)?
- Narrow it down to one or two ideas and develop a sketch and/or a dummy. Sketch it out on paper. Make it to scale. Consider working with cut text and image pieces and rearranging them on the pages to try different compositions out. Play around with the technique you are considering. Bring those experiments and dummies to class to show during our in-progress critiques.
- If Xeroxing copies of your original artwork, I recommend creating it full size, so you can easily print it. Take into consideration any margin or bleed restrictions with the printer. It might be easier to leave margins on the page and trim.
- What kind of paper will you use? You might consider going to Kelly Paper to purchase 80 lb. 11 x 17 color paper, asking for photo paper at Kinkos or Alphagraphics, or cutting down some paper to size that could accommodate Xerox printing. Thicker papers can be difficult to fold without scoring. Also look out for paper grain, create a dummy to make sure your paper will lay flat after folding.
GRADING
20 Points Total
5 Conceptual development (ideas for the content and the relationship between type, image, object and idea of your zine)
5 Design (composition, rendering, typography, page sequencing, etc.)
5 Craftsmanship (print, folding, sewing, etc.)
5 Completion (zines are 100% complete)
TIMELINE
11/28: Critique
POSSIBLE TECHNIQUES/STRUCTURES
Turkish Map Fold
Tetra Flexagon