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Issue #009

This issue is a double bill. Two essays on the future of 301. It’s a bit of a navel gazey thing to do I’ll admit, but there are things afoot – and the first people who should know are paid up mailing list members!

As I explained in my usual back cover missive, the double essay issue was party an excuse to experiment with layout design. I wanted to find out just how many words you can fit into this zine format. The answer is ~2k. Which is good to know!

Expect more lino prints or stamps in future issues though! As printing is way more fun than writing!

In addition to figuring out just how many words I could fit in the zine, it was also an excuse to finally learn all the spacing, leading, and kerning tools in Affinity Publisher. I had a crash course in it recently (more on this in a future post) and I wanted to apply my learnings to SSR.

As you can see below though, after a full year in the new format, the zine is (I think) starting to get it’s design dialled in. Issue #006 is embarrassingly bad in comparison to where it’s at now! I’ve learn’t a whole lot about print and page layout recently and think I’m going to try and something ambitious for Issue #010. Maybe … something for sale? Lots of pages, things are also afoot with this… If it’s a success, I may go back and do a print version of Issue #001 too.

Paid mailing list subscribers will of course get any zine I make in the mail as usual.

Also, one last thing: I’m thinking about buying my own laser printer, as it would make for more economical printing in the long run – plus the inkjet printer we currently have in the house is a spiteful machine and I’ll be glad to see the back of it.

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