Category: Stream Zine
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Finishing
I enjoy finishing things, which perhaps makes me better suited to art practice than many (leaving aside questions of talent, skill or ideas). But it never ceases to amaze me just how long finishing takes, or how boring it is. I’m driven by the desire to just get rid of the bloody thing, and it’s…
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Bookbinding
It’s easy to get a zine printed, bound and trimmed to a very high quality. I wanted to do something interesting with the covers, so I decided to have just the inside pages printed, and supplied to me flat, unbound. I sourced paper separately for the covers and produced the artwork with a laser cutter.…
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Laser-engraving the covers
I wanted to make a special object. I could have had the whole zine digitally-printed, but it seemed like a missed opportunity, so I decided to have the inside pages printed, and do something more interesting with the covers and binding. I have access to a laser cutter, so my plan was to use coloured…
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Printing from InDesign
In my early prototyping, I made quite a few mockups in software and in hard copy using Indesign software. I discovered some quirks along the way…
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Printing a photozine
I’ve made a few zines before, mostly for close to zero budget. For this project, I wanted the reproductions to be good, and also wanted to make a lovely object, so I had to spend some money to get it commercially printed. But printing (even digitally) in small quantities is very expensive, so part of…
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Editing, sequencing and layout
Once I had a set of images I was pretty happy with, I had to figure out how to put them together to make a coherent flow. I looked at pairings that would work across spreads. I thought about how I could lead on from one image ot the next, but also how I could…
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An Idea for a Series
I was on holiday with my family in Herefordshire, on the border between England and Wales. July 2022 was hot. Mercifully, the place we were staying had a tiny stream running down the hillside, with steep banks cut into the red soil, and heavy tree cover providing a cool respite from the sun. I was…
Andrew Sleigh 