BRIEF 01: CONTEMPORARY CULTURE//PRIMARY ZINE RESEARCH//OUGD603

zine research
To get some more ideas about how to present the photography that I will have gathered for my contemporary culture brief, I took a trip to the Village bookstore to try and get some variations of layout.  This led to loads of great new ideas and inspiration for layout, finishing, stock and size.  Obviously I think it will be easier to judge what style direction the zines should take when I receive photos back from my selected designers.

Standard zines offer a basic layout and format, mostly being photographs, one per page with white space and usually A4.  I think this simple layout can be effective depending on the quality and aesthetic of the photography.  This could be a basic display of contemporary culture in a number of different cities, with the photos talking for themselves.

Again, another simple layout, I think the similarity in colour scheme between the two photographs, not only compliments one another but keeps it consistent.

This layout was slightly different, bigger format and with text.  Originally my idea was to add text to the zines, which is still the idea, however, I don't want to add text if it seems pointless or irrelevant to the zines subject and photographs.  Depending on which city and the style of photography, black and white could work for some of them.

 This publication really caught my eye, especially for the contemporary culture brief.  It was a collection of zines in a card book sleeve for them to work as a collection.  I think this is something to really consider with this project, how I can display the zines individually but also as a collection.  Either a small box, belly bands or a sleeve could all work.

This newspaper zine caught my eye as I've always wanted to print on newsprint, I don't think this specific project would be the best because Im hoping the photographs will be of a good enough quality to display on a clean white stock.  Also because the cameras used by each designer are only polaroid disposables the quality wont be as good as shooting digital/film and so newsprint may not allow for the colour and texture to show properly.