Zines are fun to make and their lack of any convention is liberating. I often make them from the leftovers of other projects.
Their DIY rawness stands out against a cultural backdrop of elegant, printed material and shiny products in relentlessly blemish-free settings. In this an environment untidiness feels subversive when it is possible, and probably preferable for most tastes, to make a thing look perfect and planned when most bits of life are none of those things.
Their DIY rawness stands out against a cultural backdrop of elegant, printed material and shiny products in relentlessly blemish-free settings. In this an environment untidiness feels subversive when it is possible, and probably preferable for most tastes, to make a thing look perfect and planned when most bits of life are none of those things.
