Compose styles
Rather than blending styles toward a middle, this gives them roles. The first one carries the structure, the next comes in as the accent, and anything after that shows up in a single detail. Where they fight each other, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Riot Grrrl Zine: Treat the spread as one sheet and favor filling it over leaving margin
- Type
- Set in Riot Grrrl Zine's manner (Write the declarations in large capitals by hand and paste the rest in as typed pages), and let Risograph's lettering (Bold letters or homely serifs, separated by color plate) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Riot Grrrl Zine's material (Coarse photocopy tone, staple binding, the shadows of cut edges left in); bring in exactly one thing from Risograph (Two or three spot colors, coarse halftones, uncoated paper).
- Colour
- Build on #ece8dd, #c9403b, #171615 and admit one accent from #f2e6c9, #ff4d70, #185aa8.
Where they fight
These are already listed as related entries, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Riot Grrrl Zine Copying the coarse photocopy look alone gets nowhere without the writing itself, in which the maker gives a name and speaks in the first person.
- Risograph Don't fake it with a noise filter. Design how the colors overlap first.
Image prompt
Produce four original images that take their structure from Riot Grrrl Zine (style, 1990s) and their accent from Risograph (technique, 1980s– / contemporary revival). ## What to make Make the kind of thing Riot Grrrl Zine exists for: writers inside a punk scene setting down what happened to them in the first person and handing it out themselves, or claims no commercial magazine will carry, put into manifestos and calls to action and passed out at shows. Choose one subject and hold it across all four. ## Structure comes from Riot Grrrl Zine - Handwriting mixed with typewriting - Shadows along the pasted edges - Crushed blacks and coarse grain - Pages copied while still crooked Composition: Treat the spread as one sheet and favor filling it over leaving margin. Type and lettering: Write the declarations in large capitals by hand and paste the rest in as typed pages. ## Accent comes from Risograph, used sparingly - Misregistration - Spot-color inks - Halftone dots - Paper show-through Let one material quality come from it: Two or three spot colors, coarse halftones, uncoated paper. ## Colour and feeling Build the ground on #ece8dd, carry the structure in #c9403b and #171615, and let a single accent come from #ff4d70. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette. Feeling to carry: rebellion, intimacy, play. ## What goes wrong - Riot Grrrl Zine: Copying the coarse photocopy look alone gets nowhere without the writing itself, in which the maker gives a name and speaks in the first person. - Risograph: Don't fake it with a noise filter. Design how the colors overlap first. ## Across the four Keep the roles fixed in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows what this pairing can do rather than four versions of one picture. ## Constraints - Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. - Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work. - Produce original compositions in the general period languages described above.
Related entries
- Riot Grrrl Zine 1990s / Style / Publishing and Editing
Cuts and pastes handwritten and typed words, then copies them as they are, keeping the photocopier's crushed blacks and the crooked page.
- Risograph 1980s– / contemporary revival / Technique / Stencil Printing
Keeps the per-color plates and their happy misregistration, giving each copy its own body heat.
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