Sunday 1 June 2014
HOLDING THE ZINE TOGETHER.
Due to the style of my zine, I need to find away of making all the pages fold out without getting the zine printed professionally. So with this I experimented with different stuck on papers, different colour tapes and also gluing the pages together. All these attempts can be seen in my sketch book on the mock zine pages. The style I preferred and liked the best was using tape - yes it can appear quite messy but I preferred the rugged look it creates. Originally I was using brown tape, but I felt that it was too thick and too see through. I tried cutting it, but this created a messier look which made my zine look as if it had been made quickly. So with this, I went out and looked at different tapes - I found red, green, blue and black. I made the decision to use black because it worked better with the theme of my zine and also had more of a sleek appearence that worked with the rest of the zine. This can be seen on my 3rd mock book ... as it worked with that zine, I then used it on my final product.
BELLY BAND DESIGN
As I mentioned before, my zine will require a belly hand so I can hold both books together. This will also work as a design feature, which I feel will make the zine more appealing and high quality. I've stuck with my initial ideas regarding the design of the zine, which was black with white font. Below is the finished product which I easily created on photoshop :
I created them by using the square shape tool and setting the colour to black. This was very simple to do and enabled me to get the lines straight and looking neat. I then used the text tool, to create the logo - with the same font as i've been using through out the zine - and began placing them in different sections of the bars. This was because I didn't know what placement I wanted the text on my zine and also to make sure if I wanted it in the middle, that it would do that. As it turns out, I used the top bar anyway. The rest can be seen in my sketch book.
Overally I really like the simplicity of this belly band and feel it works really well with the theme of my zine.
I created them by using the square shape tool and setting the colour to black. This was very simple to do and enabled me to get the lines straight and looking neat. I then used the text tool, to create the logo - with the same font as i've been using through out the zine - and began placing them in different sections of the bars. This was because I didn't know what placement I wanted the text on my zine and also to make sure if I wanted it in the middle, that it would do that. As it turns out, I used the top bar anyway. The rest can be seen in my sketch book.
Overally I really like the simplicity of this belly band and feel it works really well with the theme of my zine.
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