Prints by Paul Landacre

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Below, the intriguing and sensual work of  Paul Landacre

Zines & Mundo

I said I would write a post about Zines, but instead I am going to take the easy way out, and throw up some links for now.

First check out http://zinewiki.com/
It is a resource about Zines, their history and is actively being updated. Unfortunately its hard to actually access the Zines, but there is a bucket-load of information.

Then Check out http://zinelibrary.info/
It has a large archive of zines uploaded by people worldwide. Contains mostly politically focused, which I sometimes find tiresome, but there are many Jems. For example see the black-bloc zine, it is basically a whismical but furtive monolog from the creator, and it implements it's design & layout in interesting and personal ways. Its quite typical of whats a zine often looks like:
http://zinelibrary.info/black-bloc-zine

But Zines can really be any handmade, hand-produce publication (in my opinion), and I am more interested in zines that take on a narrative or a visual persona (those influenced by comics for example).

Anyway due to lack of time I will just give you one more link http://akzinefest.blogspot.com/
This Zinefest is held in my country yearly, and is a great place to understand the culture and the ideas behind Zines. Yah-wen & myself were lucky enough to win this year's Zine-of-the-year prize, and our Zine is for sale at The high seas gallery

Read Our Zine

 Also I recently created an account at Illustration Mundo which is a very very cool website for illustrators, every illustrator should visit there regularly! So much inspiration!

My Profile

We won the Zinefest award!

(I should've put this up a while ago, its been over two months since the Zinefest... I've just been a bit busy, but here it is.)

Myself and Yah-Wen Ho created a small zine called '1, 2, 3, 4' for the Auckland Zinefest.
We sold out of the zines we had made, and submitted a zine to the competition for Zine of the year. Have you ever heard of a Zine? They are a kind of selfmade publication. In the near future I will try to give some background on what a Zine is, with a little history.

To see the complete Zine '1, 2, 3, 4' jump onto my twitpic page:

http://twitpic.com/2gg308


Anyway, here is a photo of Yah-wen, the force behind Potroast magazine.

This is our stand set up at the Zinefest:

This is myself and our zine, just to give you an idea of what is looks like.

To check out Potroast's facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Potroast/77771782062