Wednesdays + Fridays
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Meet in the COMD Studio (C3215)
Instructor: Jean Chisholm (cchisholm@ecuad.ca)
This course will take a collaborative approach to the creation and authorship of experimental print and independent publications, while emphasizing and encouraging other entrepreneurial behaviour. It will challenge you to think about how we begin to articulate and document practice, while also questioning the role that art and design has to play in not only delivering visual content, but also in persuading an audience about the viability of a project.
This class explores Risograph print technology through the design and development of small, interactive, and informal publications (zines). Through in-class assignments and demonstrations, students will be introduced to Risograph printing and the history and principles of self-publishing, while also exploring the potential of zine-making as an ethnographic and auto/biographical research method. Rooted in activism and considered ‘below critical radar’, zines have long served as a means of expression for voices and perspectives under-represented in mainstream media.
The ECU COMD Blog - Lots of resources and tutorials for our riso machines.
- Teacher: Jean Chisholm
- Teacher: Kathleen Jacques (Admin)