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URBS-UN3251 Nation, Cities, and Inequality

This guide supports the zine-making assignment in Noah Allison's Nation, Cities, and Inequality class at Barnard College, spring 2025. The guide was made by zine librarian Jenna Freedman.

Zine Elements

Covers

color * construction paper * relief print * acetate

Binding

staples * sewing * stab * pamphlet * paper types* materials

Graphics

illustrations * fair use/copyright * photographs * typography/handwriting * backgrounds

Elements

Essay * Poem * Review * Drawing * Collage * Personality Quiz * Crossword Puzzle * Playlist * Top Ten List * Likes/Dislikes * How To * Comic * Rant * Blank Space * Art * Handwriting * Typewriting * Design Software * Stick Figures

Metadata: author, title, publication location, publication date, freedoms and restrictions

Genre

personal * political * art * literary * split * compilation * minicomics * DIY

Pro Tips

  • Leave a 1/4" margin around your pages
  • Remember your zine will be copied or scanned, so light text and images may not reproduce well
  • You do you

Zine Topics

cat chewing on a box of envelopesA topic related to your coursework, to be shared with a different kind of audience

Zine Types

One-Page Folding Zine

Note to self: use ledger paper

photo of brown hands with chipped nail polish folding a zine

Templates

Half-Size

Print as booklet 😀 😀 😀

vertical screenshot of the first three pages of the zine "The Legacy of the Blues: The Bounds of Black Queer Performance"

screenshot of "print as booklet"

Quarter-Size

Brain challenge!

screenshot of two blank pages of what will be an eight-page quarter-size zine

Quarter Size

four-up page of A Zine Idea for Each Like zine