Brand Names

Description

From the author: “I’m obsessed with language and how it weaves in and out of our culture, and one aspect I find interesting is when a brand name product becomes a generic term. There are a lot more of them than you might think. So I started looking into them and giving a brief history. I love educational zines!

I did all the writing, and then a rad new friend of mine, named Sully, did the illustrations.

It turns out that weeks of writing and drawing was the EASY part of this project, because then Sully and I decided to print this on a Risograph! For those who don’t know, a Riso is similar to a copy machine, but uses a slightly different process. So here you go, a 2-color educational Riso-zine!

This zine is half-size, 16 pages long, with red and black on every page. It tells a brief, but true, story of 11 different products whose names we commonly use as generic terms. Things like Rollerblade and Xerox.”