OUGD 603, Brief 6, Feminist Zine, The Brief

Brief

Create a zine that educates people about gender equality. It should look into things such as feminism, male oppression, generation z and gender neutral.

Background/ Considerations

Consider the tone of voice of the design; It will have to be educational, not forceful.  Think about who it will be appealing to. Will need to do in-depth research into gender equality.

Mandatory Requirements

should include blog  posts and design boards to show your development process and research, that has influenced your practice. 

Deliverables

A body of research, showing you fully understand the topic and a zine with a minimal of 20 pages. 

This is a collaboration brief with Eva Clapham.

We decided we want to make a zine together, we came up with different topics we could do the zine on and we decided on gender equality. This is because both of had done previous projects on gender equality, Eva did her dissertation on gender in advertising and created a gender-free beauty line. And I did a brief last year on breaking gender stereotypes and had started the monotype brief (type based protest signs) on gender equality. 

I decided to drop my monotype brief to do this instead, and will use some of the type based work the work I had already started.


Eva came up with the name ISM as in feminism.

In the zine we wanted to express how feminism today isn't a bad thing, feminism has seen to have gotten a bad stigma attached to the name, we want to show how feminism is beneficial to everyone, especially not just women. We will also look at debunking gender norm and stereotypes, and go even further by looking into whether gender is required at all though gender neutral.

To make sharing work easier we have created a communal google drive.