Zine cover stock!

Ooooh, screen printing on lots of lovely stocks - variety of weights and colours

Mount board! this seemed like it would be very successful, but when i folded it, the layers that make up the board ripped slightly.

Mount board does look well good and the thickness of the card is perfect for what i wanted it for.

I lied earlier about corrugated cardboard. Its not rubbish. It is usable. It will be used. i just had the corrugation going the wrong way. When its vertical its shit. When its horizontal its the bee's bloody knees.

phwoaaar look at that. Theres a really odd industrial girder sort of feel to this. Also a really hands on aesthetic that i think will appeal to DIY music fans.

When you open the case the cuts close and the screenprint looks sweeeeeeet.

zine paper stocks

Whoops.

Sugar paper! (except the middle one, which is newsprint). I like the rough texture and the way it soaks up the ink so nicely. It also feels substantial and permanent, in complete contrast to the newsprint version.

Look at that, working in primary colours and everything. pretty horrific really.

Resistance - final formats

Resistance postcards! They're actually a little smaller than A6 so calling them postcards may or may not be allowed.

Vinyl stickers! Nice idea but not really inkeeping with the brief (its for posters and that)

Thumbnail style poster. Not really enough ideas to carry it off like.

Thanks to will for use of his arms.

Corrugated Card Cases?

To have the CD case of my zine made of corrugated cardboard may not be the best stock. The "corrugated" part means that when at the correct width, the spine of the CD is positioned on a single arch of corrugation (for want of better words).

Despite being the right size, this gives the spine a flimsy aesthetic, which is something that the client does not want. Its a shame because the stock itself is very effective - robust, hands on and individually crafted.

I experimented with making the spine wide enough to be on two of the arches of the corrugation. Although this made the spine as sturdy as could be, its just looks too wide and does not fit in fixed CD holders with individual slots.

Ees jass too beeg.

stock experiments / evaluation of content and layout

Initial "decent stock" trial with annotation. its a bit yellow, in the words of a friend - "looks a bit like bog roll like".

Reformatted layout - 3 columns through and through! Also b/w looks awesome, as does courier bold in caps for title and helvetica for body text (its the happy compromise!)

Thinking of text boxes around titles? Also, i need to get my illustrations done dammit! i cant be using jeffrey brown's stuff all the time.

ooooh... grey sugar paper! Its like a primary school clinical lo-fi thing going on here and i like it a lot.

the text looks very cool on the stock but images may not have enough contrast to be obvious what they're of. Also, the 3 column layout has been developed! it looks mint.

Again, ripping off Jeffrey Brown, but the comic is the exact format i imagined for the zine. It works so well with the square format. I really like the title/author column in a header / footer style. this will be made a feature of the final design and experimented with.

Zine case artwork / design

Some inital ideas for CD case designs - really simple wrap around nets. Basically containing logo / branding and image.

ooh, look at them all printed out and that. not very thick card unfortunately but the flaps on another net idea will create more rigidity to it.

Zine CD case trials

This was a very quick mock- up to show graham what i meant.

The idea was to give the zine a CD case but have the booklet and CD on opposite sides that a usual CD case to maintain the idea that the main product is the zine and that the compilation CD is a bonus. This is because there probably wont be much on it. ha!

A secondary mock up was produced as a stock experiment. I want to be able to produce multiple copies relatively easily but by doing it with the label, not with a print / design / cd duplication company.

This case was made out of a crunchy nut cornflakes box (I'm nuts for them). There are panels on the net that fold over design to hold a CD and have a booklet stuck to.

the advantage of these panels means that i can print the whole design one sided, which open the possibility of screen printing. It also means that the case is given some extra strength and solidity