Intro to RISOGRAPH

Come ready to collaborate and make two risograph printed zines with your fellow riso students! Please bring two images to work from—these can be photographs, paintings, drawings, scans, or digitally made artwork. The most important thing is that you arrive with imagery you’re excited to use.

Digital files are strongly encouraged and should ideally be JPEGs, PNGs, or Photoshop files. If you’re unsure how to prep your files, no worries—we can help during class, or you’re welcome to email alex.strasser.art@gmail.com ahead of time for assistance.

So, what’s a risograph?A risograph is a stencil-based printing process that blends the look of screen printing with the speed of a copier. Each color is printed one layer at a time, which creates bold textures, vibrant overlaps, and happy accidents you can’t quite get any other way. It’s playful, unpredictable, and perfect for experimentation.

And what’s a zine?Zines are small, self-published booklets made for sharing ideas, images,…