Hello everyone I am getting really sick of OSS so I’ll keep this short.
Final zine
Yeah so for this zine I wanted to do a similar concept as my previous project, a sort of idiot’s how to guide, but this time on the infamous artist Damien Hirst. I don’t know about you but from what I’ve been reading/hearing he’s very well known especially in the art/design world, and everyone has an opinion on him. Unless you want nothing to do with the art world you should really check him out, especially since they teach his stuff at the exclusive NYAEP *jeng jeng*
(the following are his actual art works and all images belong to the official website of master Hirst)
To sum it up Damien Hirst is one of the richest living artists in the world, and is most commonly known for placing dead animals in tanks (usually filled with a blue liquid called formaldehyde for preservation purposes) and giving them long pretentious names. Obviously there has been lots of controversy on whether Damien Hirst’s works can be considered art, especially since he didn’t actually ‘do’ anything to the objects/bodies. Personally I was very intrigued when first coming across one of his books in the library, but have gotten more suspicious after reading reviews about him. Honestly now I don’t quite know what to feel about his work, whether they’re actually great pieces of art or just the product of a rich man being pretentious, and that feeling is what I hope to convey with this zine.
And so this zine is like a handout/booklet trying to teach people how to be like Damien Hirst, but ends up failing.
I initially thought of simply photoshopping weird things into pictures of Damien’s works but nah where’s the fun in that. So I decided to construct my very own Hirst box. The first 3 pictures are of some discarded box found on top of the b1 lockers and they served as a reference during the construction process.
Making the box
More trials
Initial draft
Feedback: longer/more pretentious titles, edit lighting in pictures to that of one taken in a real museum, short description on who Damien Hirst is and why he is famous, include price tag of works/materials needed, increase size of name in front cover, use glossier paper, include fake gallery contact information, wrap zine with ribbon etc to make it more formal, fake artist description, increase the satire, be mindful of font size hierarchy
So yeah and we arrive to my final zine. Don’t think it needs much elaboration/description as I think it is simple enough to be understood on its own. Here are some reference pictures of actual Damien Hirst books.
