Wednesday, 4 October 2017

Self Publishing - Session 1

During this session we were taught about the importance of self publishing and where it originated from. A particular quote that stood out to me during this session was:
"Bookbinding is in itself a comparatively simple matter and is easily described: but it is associated with great and interesting conditions of society, moreover, like every other handicraft, is on its ideal side a discipline and a type of life." - T. J. Cobden Sanderson - 1895.
The printing press is another factor that pushed for self publishing, as it was the first kind of publishing, it broke the monopoly on printing.
We then created a Zine, which contain all of the information which we learnt about during the session, along with opinions of our own which we think are appropriate. The zine needed to be visually interesting along with being informative about the information we had been provided with.




Within this Zine I looked at a couple of different artists but I didn't have time to print out the images which would be included within my zine. Therefore I will add some additional images onto the end of this post to demonstrate their works. 

Laura Oldfield-Ford





Cory Doctorow