I've had fun this week although I completely got bogged down with my work in progress. I spend hours researching the world's most beautiful cemeteries and seem to have turned into some sort of 'tombstone tourist' It's such a fun project to be working with so much history and culture to read about. We now have 6 trips booked over the coming weeks to visit and photograph a few of the 10 most beautiful graveyards in the UK.
I will keep you posted ;-)
Our topic this week was to collaborate and create a zine.
I googled loads of information on zines and after seeing them I wanted to put something together using old objects found by children. I wanted my daughter and her 4 friends to spend some time rummaging around sheds and garages to find some old stuff. We all met up and discussed the subject, they will enjoy taking these into school after the summer holidays. I photographed the items in my kitchen, I looked at them all and tried to work them all into one zine and came up with the idea of 'The Kitchen' ( the girls want to do this again with other findings so I can see a series of volumes coming soon, all the found objects were photographed in the kitchen. It was good for them to see that what one sees as rubbish or junk can be photographed to look quite beautiful) we had great fun arranging the images in an aesthetically pleasing way with the hope that they would flow nicely.
I chose a silk paper, I wanted a matt paper with a texture which would be happy medium between gloss and matt. Silk seemed to be the option and a recommended choice for my project.
Silk
' Like satin, silk finish falls on the spectrum between glossy and matte. It has a slight sheen to it and displays images well, but still offers a high level of readability and is much easier to write on than a gloss finish paper. This makes it ideal for use in leaflets, brochures, booklets, projects with text, or promotional materials that people might use to make notes on.
I chose a silk paper, I wanted a matt paper with a texture which would be a happy medium between gloss and matt. Silk seemed to be the option and a recommended choice for my project.es to my studies. I would have liked to add more images with a fold-out page at the start and end of the zine giving it structure and strength. With more added features came higher pricing with the printing etc. I would have also ordered a packaging option, instead, I have opted for a silk ribbon which is hand died at home using avocado stones, the pink will work beautifully with the black and white, matt finish. Ideally, a zine would have been saddle-stitched, when mine arrive I will remove staples and bind by hand.
I look forward to my printed copies arriving this week and also creating more of these little zines as they're a perfect in-between presentation for my work in progress, for a body of work which is not quite ready for submission this is a perfect, much more than just a folder on my desktop.
For any future zines I will pay particular attention to the follwoing:
•Intention
•Layout
•Content
•Design
•Title
•Font
I think it's very important to pay particular attention to the font, after all this is the visual identity of every single word in your zine.
For any future zines I will pay particular attention to the following: ter all this is the visual identity of every single word in your zine.
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