Lockdown Magazine Research + Structure Discussion

SEX POSITIVE PUBLICATIONS 




Pull Out Zine

Pull Out is a print zine that explores how technology is affecting millennial sex lives. The zine features 64 pages of original work by emerging millennial photographers, models, and writers with an emphasis on inclusion and diversity, covering everything from web-camming for cash to how porn has rewired how we have sex.

"In many ways. For one, it allows us to connect faster and with people who are outside our circle. One important change is in the form of dating apps. Presently, the digital dating sphere exists as a metaphorical merry-go-round, where one can constantly cycle through different dating prospects. However, this new form of courting strangers has taken away from the depth of real-life experience. I think about the daily back and forth of texts, and how you never really make the other understand or sense your true emotions like through the verbal exchange in a phone call. I think mind-games are a lot more apparent in today’s dating culture because of this. Studies show that millennials are having a lot less sex though, and I think it’s because we virtually communicate so often that we don’t take the leap to actually meet face to face."-Eileen Kelly



PC Erotic Issue 

PC Erotic is a new magazine for 2018 by Iris Luz, published by Ditto, which celebrates and attempts to understand the complex issues brought up by human sexuality and technology.

What happens when cookies can predict your daughter’s pregnancy more accurately than you can? How does one protect oneself from the real internet pervert: GOOGLE? What about technologically enhanced pornstars? 

The first issue features mukbang, tentacle porn, bimbofication, sexy avatars, robot sex chat, killer porn drones and much, much more from contributors including Monserrat Romina, Maria Forque, Viktor Naumovski, Lily Bloom, Lily Evangeline and Dani St James. Join us on the digital highway to the new sexual revolution!




Jegza

Sex and gender can feel overdone, as indie magazine themes go. Or emptily trendy. Which is why Latvian-born Jezga’s unique focus — on youth culture in the former Eastern Bloc — is intriguing. The contributors to this thick, peach-coloured ‘love, sex, gender’ issue are thinking through sexuality in the shadow of the region’s Soviet years. The most unusual results include photographs of an 80-year-old Polish drag queen, who, in the Communist era, would perform privately for the cultural elite of the day; and a poem ascribing the speaker’s “juicy booty” to a genetic reaction to hunger (“Grandmother Ginta grew up in a gulag”).





Lavascious

With brands like Victoria’s Secret coming under fire, consumers are calling time on the stick-thin, super model fantasy. The silence around the sex industry, however, means that the adult entertainment industry hasn’t been held to the same standards. It’s exceedingly rare to see plus-size performers, and when you do they’re viewed through a reductive or fetishistic lens. So, against this rather disheartening backdrop, Californian visual artist Lauren Crow brought Lascivious into the world. Shooting their subjects with a Nan Goldin-esque candour, Crow’s grainy, 1970s style photos practically simmer with sensuality. Everything we wish mainstream porn could be.





Pull Out Zine

Pull Out is a print zine that explores how technology is affecting millennial sex lives. The zine features 64 pages of original work by emerging millennial photographers, models, and writers with an emphasis on inclusion and diversity, covering everything from web-camming for cash to how porn has rewired how we have sex.

"In many ways. For one, it allows us to connect faster and with people who are outside our circle. One important change is in the form of dating apps. Presently, the digital dating sphere exists as a metaphorical merry-go-round, where one can constantly cycle through different dating prospects. However, this new form of courting strangers has taken away from the depth of real-life experience. I think about the daily back and forth of texts, and how you never really make the other understand or sense your true emotions like through the verbal exchange in a phone call. I think mind-games are a lot more apparent in today’s dating culture because of this. Studies show that millennials are having a lot less sex though, and I think it’s because we virtually communicate so often that we don’t take the leap to actually meet face to face."-Eileen Kelly

Sick

https://magculture.com/sick-2/

Since the first coverage of the pandemic swamped the news, panicked conversations about self-isolation, boredom and loneliness have been to the fore. It’s easy to see the frustration so many disabled people must have felt – still feel. As Sick editor Olivia Spring writes in issue two of the magazine, ‘Suddenly the whole world is talking about illness, underlying conditions, immunosuppressants, isolation, remote working, and spending all day in pyjamas.’




IDEAS 

- photography focus 

- disposable camera get pictures put on disk 

- disposable cameras cannot be edited, they are what they are

- they are so transient

- when someone gets a phone out everyone is aware and poses, whereas a disposable camera gets past situations and presents people naturally 

 - selfies = self exploration and portraiture

- Kim Kardashian book on all her selfies 


JOELY - Thoughts on Art and Life on Easy Netflix Series 

I think this is a very interesting way to document your life and explore portraiture in its now most common form of selfie-taking and social media. This episode explores selfies in a much more personal, expressive and poetic light as to how they are commonly used. There is beauty within selfie culture (along with a lot of problems), but I very much appreciate how this episode celebrates selfie culture and the images are actually quite beautiful. 

Selfish Book

Selfish is a coffee table photobook written by television personality Kim Kardashian. It was released on May 5, 2015 by the Universe imprint of the art bookseller Rizzoli. The book features Kardashian's personal selfies, collecting various images previously posted on Kardashian's social media accounts. The photobook received positive reviews from critics.


= talk to house mates about lockdown love/lust takes pics 
= take disposable 

= take pics of house mates as drag queens 

= Both me and Joely create a few design spreads with the images and interviews 

= Discuss aesthetic style 


> Need to ensure there is a cohesive creative direction within the whole publication, but we love all the styles we have seen 

> And don't want to restrict ourselves to one style when the range will present something more interesting 

> Chapters enable us to explore all the different aesthetics and styles that we have seen and love in the research eg. Petra Collins female gaze and more harsh syber graphics of PC Erotic magazine 

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CHAPTERS

1. selfies + nudes (romantic + female gaze + petra collins) JOELY

2. hinge dating + video internet dating (digital aesthetic + cyber + 3D) MEL

3. weird things people did for their fix (collage) BOTH

4. relationships make or break (clean cut editorial tip in) BOTH


PRODUCTION IDEAS

[random tinder messages popping up over whole publication] 

[little reflective paper "look at yourself" in a phone illustration]

[Tippins: Opportunity to be experimental eg; swipe left and swipe right]


TIME FRAME 

Christmas - Finish content and design

End of January - Physical Production of publication 


TO DO - DUE MONDAY [2nd]

> Contact people about lockdown stories 

= Aria 

= Ell

> Buy disposable cameras 

= Take pictures of interviewed individuals/ get selfies from them (dependant on chapter) 

> Mock up aesthetic ideas 

1 Internet Dating 

2 Weird Fixes 

3 Make or Break 

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THURSDAY 29th 3:00

> Call with Ell, onlyfans

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BRIEF 

BA (Hons.) Graphic Design

 

LEVEL

6

STUDIO BRIEF

 

 

Internal collaboration 1 (IC1)

 

Module Brief

 

OUGD603 Extended Practice

 

Semester

 

1

 

Outcomes Assessed

 

 

 

Module Tutors

 

Amber Smith

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brief

Lockdown Lovelust is a print publication which explores how lockdown affected relationships and love and lust in younger people.

 

 

Background/Considerations

Content Considerations

Lockdown was an unprecedented experience for young people and had a particularly strong impact on their sex lives and relationships. A variety of experiences within this scope should be documented and presented to the reader through the publication.

 

An experimental direction should be taken when approaching this publication. A range of processes and techniques should be used, including collage, film photography, digital manipulation, 3D imagery and so on. Physical production choices should be made to reflect the topic and discussions, eg. the use of tip ins. It should be non-linear and interactive.

 

Production costs should be kept low for mass production purposes.

 

The tone should be feminist and sex positive. It should act as a physical reflection of a safe space and ethical considerations should be taken when approaching participants for the content. Diversity and inclusivity must also be considered.

 

Background Considerations

 The target audience is young people aged between 16 and 30 who engage with zines, art and music culture. They are also interested in and feel comfortable around the topic of sex. Made up of predominantly students, this group appreciate experimental art direction and are generally creative individuals.

 

 

 

Mandatory Requirements

Deliverables

1 OUGD603 blogs documenting development

 

2 Design Boards

 

3 Final outcomes

 

4 Brief evaluation

 

5 Timetable

 

 

 

1 Physical production of a publication with the intention of mass production.

 

2 Professional Presentation (ie. photography) of said publication for promotional purposes.

 

3 Social Media Branding and Development for promotion of publication and possible selling.

4 Production of any other additional accessories for purchase with publication.

 

Studio Deadline

Module Deadline

31/01/2021

 

 

05/05/2021

 

 

 

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