Soft Publishing Week 3: Monday, November 9

In class

1.5 hours

Reading discussion
Manifesto presentations

30 minutes

Introduce zine project

Guest lecture

Amelia Greenhall and Adam Greenhall of ANEMONE

Creators of Spectrolite and Layout Department
November 9, 2026

Reading

James Hoff, Jordan Nassar, Rachel Valinsky, Travis Diehl, “Printed Matter: The Bookshop that Changed Artist Publishing,” 2026

Lisa Gitelman, Amateurdom and Its Discontents, Or, What Is a Zine?, 2013 [video]

Keynote talk for the June 2013 Symposium on Emerging Genres, Forms, Narratives—in New Media Environments. Held by the North Carolina State University program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media.

Assignment

Zine Project Instructions

Using physical mediums and the resources available to you, publish a small printed artifact.

Select a portion of your work that you feel would be best represented in a printed format and that best aligns with your publishing manifesto.
You can use this template that turns a single piece of paper into a multi-page zine through a series of folds and cutting. You can explore other formats.
Create a prototype and prepare to present it, and the reasons and values represented in the prototype, to the class.

Due Sunday November 15, 12:00PM EST
Submission form