Nieves Gallery is an indie publishing house in Zurich that prints small-scale, ultra hip zines featuring many well-known illustrators...ahem, i mean, "visual auteurs" like Geoff McFetridge (see top zine) and Mike Mills.
Wouldn't it be cool to self-publish a zine? Make a small scale, very personal representation of your art and writing, perhaps hand screen print the entire thing, and maybe even bind it yourself. I know that's a ton of work. I guess you could always just create a few by hand and then photocopy the rest.
Make that item #134 on my list of things to accomplish.
what a lovely blog!! i found you via decor8. good stuff.
Posted by: paula | March 16, 2006 at 04:17 AM
Very cool illustrations! There is something so fantastic about the simplicity of these pages! Love 'em!
I always start grand projects in the vein of self-publishing a zine (meaning bigger than I can reasonably handle) but so often real life gets in the way! Dont you hate that?
Posted by: Mcaplan | March 16, 2006 at 06:20 AM
I was in Zurich last September, what an AMAZING city. Easy to be inspired to create there...have you been?
xo,
decor8
Posted by: decor8 | March 16, 2006 at 05:02 PM
Oh, by the way, you can self-publish when it comes to a blog now! I have been doing a lot of research on this lately and I found a few sources, but in the next few months, I heard some big players are stepping up to offer it too. For now, look at this.
http://www.blogbinders.com
It's something I'd love to do with my blog, just to have one copy that I could put on my coffee table...show my grandchildren one day...this is the blog grandma wrote when she was a young girl... :)
xo,
holly
p.s. sorry I signed by last post decor8, I type it so much lately that it's my new alias. :)
Posted by: decor8 | March 16, 2006 at 05:05 PM