Welcome to our Advent(ure) in System Seeing!
Our Advent(ure) in System Seeing began on December 1. We've embarked on 24 days of daily journaling prompts and quotes that inform our systems understanding.
The concept borrows from the Advent of Code, but focuses on understanding systems. Like the Advent of Code (in past years), there are daily challenges. In our case, prompts guide short bursts of daily practice, sketching and writing in a Systems Adventure Journal (with some side-quests). More background here.
Day 24: Adventure Zine
To wrap up the Advent(ure) in System Seeing, pull some of your work into an Advent(ure) in System Seeing Zine. It's neat to create a physical memento that you might even want to share with others. And it's your gift to yourself for completing the Advent(ure)!
There are instructions for various zines where you turn a single page into an 8 (or 16) page booklet. Here are instructions for an 8 page (or Front and Back cover, and 6 internal pages) zine by Taylor Rushing:
8 page Zine Instructions by Taylor Rushing
You could use the draft pages you've created as is, scanning or taking pictures of them, and using the layout on the instructions to position images of the work you want on the zine. Add pages from other parts of your work, to fill out more pages, if you like. And then print the page you'll fold into the zine. Or you can redraw them directly onto a blank zine you make first.
If your draft zine pages were in portrait format, you'll need 8 pages (including front cover and back).
If you used a landscape layout for the draft pages, make the landscape images a two page spread, and it works great. If you would like to have more pages, then you can consider using the 16 page format and A3 (or 11x17) paper. To see how this works, I used the images of zine pages that Sebastian Hans shared on mastodon during Advent:
Systems Zine by Sebastian Hans
Here is the page before folding it into the zine:
The layout using Sebastian Hans' zine pages
And it's a wrap!! Thank you for joining the Advent(ure) and I hope you have a lovely time over the holidays!