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An 8-sided zine from 1 sheet with 1 cut
An 8-sided zine from 1 sheet with 1 cut
I've seen quite a few zines made using this trick. It's a really neat way of making a proper little zine out of one sheet - all 8 sides are on one side of your piece of paper, which is convenient for photocopying etc, although you can also put stuff on the reverse side for people to see when they unfold your zine. Here are the steps:
Design your zine all on one sheet, with the pages in this order (and the same way up as the numbers shown):
Then crease the sheet along the two main directions (by folding it in half then opening it, once for each direction):
Now make another pair of creases, with the effect of dividing the long direction into quarters:
Then unfold again, fold in half, and make a cut with scissors as shown - you should be cutting through two thicknesses of paper, but only as far as those quarter-folds you just made
:
Open it out again. The resulting page should have a cut in its centre, a bit like thi
s:
Fold it in half along the long direction, such that all your pages are still on the outsi
de:
Now push it inwards from each end, so that the inner bit pushes out in both directions to make a kind of cross-shape. Fold the resulting pages together so that your front page is outm
ost:
And there you have it, a little zine of 8 pages that needs no stapling or gl
Jeff Phillips for LACP -PHOTO ZINE RESOURCES LIST February 24.pdf
He used KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) and Google Slides.
orihon (OR-ee-hon) noun
A book or manuscript folded like an accordion: a roll of paper inscribed on one side only, folded backwards and forwards.
[From Japanese, ori (fold), + hon (book).]
Here's a picture of an orihon. The word origami is from the same root, from Japanese ori (fold) + -gami, kami (paper), the art of paper folding that can coax a whole menagerie from a few sheets of paper.
-Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org)
"He created an orihon binding -- an accordion-style technique that allowed the book to expand to more than 60 feet." Veronica Chestnut; Digital Printing at Harvard; Electronic Publishing, Jul 1997.
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