Plog Magazine ISSUE 4

I still can’t believe how much Plog has come along since I reviewed its first issue. The latest Plog issue from Son Emirali – who is amazingly only in his 2nd year on WSA’s GA course?! – features some really cool stuff I like. | am a sucker for infographics so I LOVE Simon Ellis‘s World Leaders Typographic Trump Cards. And Grace Hsu‘s really intimate photographs.

Also super chuffed to point out that Plog also features work from my own advertising students! Andrew Bevan’s TKMaxx ad -  and probably the most entrepreneurial boy in my class, Ed Byrne, his On|Off Collective is also in this issue.

HARD WORKERS CLUB

Yesterday we managed to rifle through a load of Zineswap post we have received of late and as usual we have received an exciting selection of zines from all over the globe. We will hopefully get swaps sent out by the end of the month. But one new arrival that grabbed my attention I wanted to mention was whipped up by the HARD WORKERS CLUB and showcases a selection of some lovely photography. Check it:

Hard Workers Club – Volume One from Hard Workers Club on Vimeo.

Gordo

GAINESVILLE ZINE LIBRARY!

So its been a while since we posted anything to this section of the world wide web of wonder! Sorry for this, both me and Rob have been busy working on a mass of interesting new projects.

Anyway I was recently on a nice long break in America and found myself at a music festival in Gainesville, Florida of all places. An amazing, alcohol fueled and fast food driven time was had. But a highlight was coming across an epic zine library at the CIVIC MEDIA CENTER run by some really nice characters.

Check out the snaps below of their impressive collection:

Gordo

ZINESWAP AT ORBITAL COMICS

YO! WE’RE GONNA BE HERE THIS WEEKEND. As well as swapping and the library, we’re gonna ask ya’ll to help us make a zine about SPACE and the PLANETS, then we’re going to put it in a box and bury it as a time-capsule for aliens from the future to unearth and have a riot over.

JOIN US. It’s free. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=183146518419722

Radfest III 21.08.11

We will be at this with the archive and swap-box. It’s got a rooftop garden. See you there.
Tickets: wegottickets.com/sexbeat
Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/sexbeat/radtape-iii

Umberellaaaa

One half of Zineswap, Gordo, is a little known for having a disposable camera perpetually attached to the end of one of his arms. This small plastic appendage  is continuously flashing unsuspecting members of the public (better this appendage than the other) in an attempt to catalogue the day to day, without going through the tedium of putting pen to Pepysistic paper.

For some reason, the kind folk at Umbrella Magazine thought it a good idea to include it in their current issue. Great.

PEELED

TWATTOO

Needle + Ink + Absinthe = Zineswap tattoo.

24-hour zine challenge!

It’s 30th July which means that International Zine Month 2011 is almost over.

A perfect thing to do for zinesters to do in International Zine Month, of course, is to send Zineswap copies of any issues they don’t have already…

All through July while I’ve been (sparsely) blogging  for this site, I’ve been meaning to post about something that *everyone* should do in International Zine Month, and that is…

_=-~’*!\\.The Twenty-Four Hour Zine Challenge.//!*’~-=_

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Slipped deadlines and Attack!!!! 15

So we are here in the fourth week of my “Friendly Fridays” postings for Zineswap… and this is only my second post so far… and neither this nor the other was done on a Friday. With apologies to the good folk of Zineswap, and the countless millions out there no doubt hanging on my every word (ahem) – I don’t feel entirely bad about that, simply because it has a certain aptness to it. That’s how zine-ing goes sometimes. It fits in around the other things you have to do, but it goes on fitting in because it’s one of those things you really want to do.

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