Finished Zine

I finally got everything finished for my zine. I printed the inside pages on the black and white printers in the mac suites onto normal printer paper and got the cover printed on thicker stock in the digital print resource. I printed the cover on A3 because my inside cover was a full bleed pattern. I think the thicker cover gives the zine a more finished look and it feels nicer to hold. I bound the zine with black thread instead of staples. I was torn between white and black but the white looked odd against the off-white stock of the cover. I think black works really well though. I have also had to trim down the edges of the paper since it has been bound so that the inside pages can't be seen beyond the cover. 

Evaluation

I am unsure how successful this zine will be at Thought Bubble because I don't really know what its like. I have heard a lot of things and people saying there are all kinds of work but I still think it will be heavily comics based which this zine doesn't really fit into.

I have enjoyed making this zine quite a lot, although it has distracted me considerably from my other modules. It shows how much you can get carried away with doing something you are enjoying and leaving other things on the back burner (maybe for a bit too long). 

One thing I might change if I was to do this project again would be to think about the cover design as I am designing the internal pages. I am happy with how this cover has turned out for the best in this case but I did leave it to the last minute and to me, it seemed like an afterthought. 

I think choosing this theme and drawing style is so much more appropriate for the format of a zine because it will attract a group of people with specific interests and the bold black ink lines transfer really well though print. Looking back at my previous zine ideas, particularly the one where I was doing detailed, precise line drawings of objects found and seen on my travels in Europe this summer, I have realised that this probably wouldn't have been appropriate for the format. The line work would not have transferred into print as well and the level of detail would have definitely been reduced if I had used the photocopier to produce them. 

In terms of my professional development, it has made me think more about where I want my work to exist because this really impacts the view I take on subject matter, drawing style and tone of voice. I am not sure whether this is a good or a bad thing but it also impacts on how I personally define how successful it is as a product.