Saturday, March 5, 2016

OUGD401 - Studio Brief 02 - Zine Printing

Printing
To print the zine there are two options: digital printing or traditional printing (including but not limited to screenprinting, monoprinting, letterpress). Digital printing is historic to the zine-making tradition, as originally zines were made quickly and simply on a xerox machine. It is also the most common method of zine production today due to the wide accessibility and low cost of the using the equipment.

However, as this work will also focus on printed material as a luxury item I will use a traditional print method to produce my work. Screenprinting is the most viable option, as it allows for a relatively fast reproduction of the content, suitable for a small run of publications, but also provides an elitist edge as the zines will be individually hand-printed. It is also reminiscent of newspaper production (printing four different plates in CMYK), and also plays into the tradition of the cost and effort of production outweighing the physical value of the end product.