I attended my first (online) zine workshop, and it was run by Camilla Fanning.

Event dets:

• 🗓️ Sat April 18, 2026 (11:00-12:30)
• ℹ️ https://visualartists.ie/advert/online-workshop-protest-zine-making-workshop-with-camilla-fanning-2

I created a zine called “Human-centred AI Matters!”, it’s a 6 page half-page zine plus front and back covers. After the workshop I continued making to finish it. I scanned the zine so I can make copies of it and also make a mini-zine!

It was quite cathartic because I was raging from an article I read a couple of days before the workshop that sparked this specific topic on many issues coming from this hyped technology.

It was such good fun, you know you are having a great time when your desk is a wonderful mess afterwards! 🥰

Note: That some of the images used were from old ImagineFX magazines and were by amazing artists, but with all the excitement of cutting and tearing things out, I forgot to note down the artists names, so if you see your image here, please let me know at vicky[at]eventgeek[dot]ie.

Here are some photos of side-by-side of my OG hand-made zine and the copy I printed out after I scanned it. There’s also a pic of my mini-zine.

For those wondering how I made my PDF:

• I created A4 Portrait doc on Canva, and uploaded each image into its own page
• Saved the PDF
• Used Zine Arranger (free) - selected half-page and A4 options before I saved the PDF after it did its magic.
• One thing Ihad to do was rotate every 2nd page 180 degrees as my own printer that handles double-sided printing and it printed every 2nd page upside down and you folded the zine. So if you are doing it, test in advance.

For the mini-zine:

• I used Canva, and I already have a custom-made template for 8-page mini-zine
• I pulled the already uploaded images (from before) into the template
• Then I exported it, and chose PDF Print for printing.

I also just created a Flickr photo album for my zines: https://www.flickr.com/photos/whykay/albums/72177720333154260/

I made a physical zine, the biggest I’ve ever made for my Creative Learning Course (NCAD). It’s my reflection journal, I still don’t know if I made one correctly, but there was an option to submit a physical copy… so I did! My last hurrah as an art student. And here’s the digital version, enjoy!:

If you have problems viewing the zine, you can go directly to https://heyzine.com/flip-book/a5c963ac08.html.

As part of the short course, I created a couple of things on the side and included in the reflective journal:

I used Decker (which some folks have used for interactive digital zines) to create a little interactive story based on the object, a Nintendo Famicom cartidge, which embodied my creative journey. Note: That Decker is not mobile-friendly, view via laptop/desktop computer.

A mini-zine I created based on the reaction from one of the activities where we address and distill large issues to single words. Chanting them out loud during class, a very cathartic exercise which stuck with me leading me to design and make this mini-zine.