OUGD405 - Publication Critique

OUGD405 - Publication Critique

The state of the zine at the time off this critique was not ideal as it wasn’t fully finished; using the photocopier to produce it took a lot of time as when printing on both sides of a page, sometimes with multiple layers, the orientation was almost impossible to regulate. So while this group critique indicated points for improvement that were already fairly evident, there were some ideas to take into account when entering the latter stages off production. 

More content? - While the rationale behind the zine being short and containing few pages links to the idea of it replicating a short anti-war handout or newspaper, it would have been interesting to produce more pages and see if the impact of its message was diminished or was augmented. 

Propaganda Type - The relevance of the phrases from the comic book propaganda was unclear for some and while the zine doesn’t acknowledge the reasoning behind the type except for the source, in unison with a rationale, this should be clear. The reason the type is so impactful in some regards is that the source doesn’t matter because the shocking contrast between it and the images speaks for itself.

Screen printing - Screen-printing the publication would have been very effective and was originally the intended production method, however due to time restraints this wasn’t possible. It would have been interesting to see how the zine would have fit with the newspaper aesthetic it holds if it had been screen printed.