Zine Brief

So i really couldnt pinpoint a topic i wanted to base the zine on, i had loads of ideas but not of them seemed decent. i mean they had scope but were trying to hard, and some weren't trying at all. These include the different brands of ketchup and why people like certain brands...........not great, or the stereotypical people found in a pub and their actual professions, but to me this wasn't really that close to heart. I needed something that i can relate to, but not to the point where i partake in it.....much. so i thought why not base the zine on fanboy culture. Im a huge star wars nerd and have been since i was little, and although i dont go to comicon dressed as a stormtrooper, i do think im a bit of a fanboy. but its the hardcore people and fans i want to look at and comment on. so this will be the basis of my zine, oh and er, the whole star wars nerd thing, forget i said that.

christmas card design....are you mad

so on second thoughts, although i stand by my opinions, there is no way im brave enough to do that idea at all, if its going to offend people, i'd rather do it when i'm not a student and can hire bodyguards. my new idea is a bit safer. create a tick list of how to prepare for christmas, make it a bit witty and a bit of fun and so you can actually tick off what you've done. nice and simple.

christmas card design

so we have to design a christmas card not using the cliche symbols and images you usually see. i want to have a bit of fun with this i think and really do something brave and a bit stupid if you ask me, could get me into some trouble with certain people. basically i thought around peoples perceptions of christmas and then the actual story behind christmas, this being the birth of jesus. in my mind god took a helpless virgin and made her have a kid, my opinion on the story and others will criticise me for that opinion but it is that, an opinion. also god wasn't married to mary? he couldn't be cos she was married to poor bystander joseph surely? so that makes jesus technically a bastard, because he was born outside of a marriage? now this is very controversial and could possibly have the whole church hunting me down, but i think it will make a strong effective and very very different christmas card if i were to use simple type and put "i'm not being funny, but doesn't that make god a rapist and jesus a bastard?"............lord have mercy on my soul.