OCT-NOV: ZMACS Hexaminizine

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Group:	Zines, mail art & other cool stuff
Swap Coordinator:	rngstgstll (contact)
Swap categories:	Themed Miscellaneous Mail Art
Number of people in swap:	8
Location:	International
Type:	Type 3: Package or craft
Last day to signup/drop:	October 2, 2015
Date items must be sent by:	November 6, 2015
Number of swap partners:	1
Description:
Ever seen a hexaminizine or hexaminibook? Me, neither, until the other week. Suddenly, I am finding several types of hexagon-shaped little books and zines. Here are some choice examples: Created by a language teacher, all pages open to center A honeycomb book about bees! Flower-flap hexagon template A couple different ways of joining hexagons ... Could you possibly make a hexabook out of fabric? Hmm... If you send a handle, your recipient could turn this hexagon based flower into a little basket ... More embellished hexagons A more elaborate minialbum Send your project in a hexagon shaped envelope if you are adventurous ... Another hexagon envelope, much simpler! And another tutorial for an origami envelope. Or, alternatively, fold your work up in a larger fold-in minizine style above. If you make a thicker or dimensionally embellished hexaminibook, you might want to send it in a padded envelope, of course. In short, use your creative effort and cool skills to make one hexagon-shaped minizine or minibook for one partner. Send it, hexagonal envelope encouraged but not absolutely required if it does not suit your minizine or minibook. Sit back and appreciate the amazing zig-zagginess of the hexagon! Please be zig-zaggily cool, and communicate with partners -- I will hexagon any unsent swaps. Image credit: a UK-based project-based learning blog with some strong language about creativity in schools! Hexagons make interesting connections, eh?

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rngstgstll 09/19/2015 #

Here's another cool hexagon design -- folds out to make a hexagonal wreath or flower sort of design!

If you are a mathematician, you can read the description of this book, otherwise you can follow the diagram, which seems fairly straightforward -- thanks Purdue engineers!

Found a sewn hexagon book!

Hexagons on top of hexagons -- ok, it's a potholder, but it COULD be a book cover, right?!

Finally, check out how to make a hexagon with a compass and straightedge and learn why hexagons are often seen in nature.

rngstgstll 09/19/2015 #

Forgive the excess enthusiasm, but one other fun thing about hexagons is the fact that they can be divided into various patterns of equilateral triangles. Expands the book design possibilities. Hexagons are the shape with the largest number of sides that can be regularly tesselated, which is a fancy word for "put together like tiles in a way where there is no gap between the tiles." In fact, hexagons put together like tiles are basically like many triangles put together like tiles.

rngstgstll 09/19/2015 #

OK, OK, just one more fun hexagon fact: check out the way that soap bubbles make hexagons when paced together. Hexagons are the shape of fall 2015!

Angenita 09/20/2015 #

Theme of the zine is senders choice?

rngstgstll 09/20/2015 #

Absolutely. Thanks for the clarification :)

rngstgstll 09/25/2015 #

Oh, wow, how cool is this? An international art project for kids that uses hexagons as a tool to emphasize the theme of interdependence?! Check out all the cool hexagon ideas in the teacher resource section! The Hexagon Project

rngstgstll 10/ 3/2015 #

Quite a lot about hexaflexagons

Moominbrooke 10/ 9/2015 #

Oh boy- those are dynamic and fantastic!

secretterrabite 10/14/2017 #

Hexagon zine sounds cool - as long as no spiders are involved in the giving or receiving of this swap!

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