digital zines

A crash
 course

DIGITAL
ZINES

A crash course

DIGITAL ZINES

online

some possibilities of paper-based zines are lost, others are won…

… layout, skills needed, curation, media format, distribution,

audience, accountability 


TOOLS

Classic tools:
Paper diy & scan


In between:
Paper made Zine, brushed over with layout program,

evt. Links added

Digital tools*:
Drawing & Layout programs (canvas, fatpaint, gimp,

Inkscape, libra office, lyx, open office, paint, paint.NET,

pages, photoshop, preview, scribus, ...)
Pdf to flipbook converter (flip html5, yumpu, …)
Flipbook maker (flipsnack, zine lab, …)

* digital toolbox changes fast, they come and go, esp. free tools

EXAMPLES

http://shortfastanddeadly.com/

SHORT FAST DEADLY

https://issuu.com/silbee/docs/zine_final_pdf

THE AUDACITY OF GROWTH

https://issuu.com/silbee/docs/zine_final_pdf

SULA COLLECTIVE

http://www.dumdumzine.com/

DUM DUM

https://ramonamag.com

RAMONA

Photo by David Yu from Pexels

IMAGE SOURCING

Your own pictures or free image resources:

Flickr https://www.flickr.com/

Pexels https://www.pexels.com

Pixabay
Stocksnap https://pixabay.com/da/

Unsplash
… https://stocksnap.io/

https://unsplash.com/

COPY RIGHT? COPY LEFT?

Consider credit for the images/ texts you use
Decide how you want your work to be treated
https://www.copyleft.org/
https://creativecommons.org

PUBLISH

For download (e.g. as pdf)
As online flipbook
Page by page on a blog
… your choice