RESPONSIVE : BRIEF - Noculture icons x Village book store

Brief :

Design a zine based on any theme you choose, any media / size. Winners zine will be sold in Village book shop . To enter send physical copy to Noculture Icons address, digital versions will be accepted and looked at also.


Chosen theme - Yorkshire:

My audience for this brief will obviously be people who read magazines and zones, so they have an interest. From choosing my topic as Yorkshire I am also extending my audience to people who may have an interest in Yorkshire due to being born there or living there or as a tourist visiting.

- acent

- yorkshire puddings

- yorkshire tea

- pubs

- towns

- countryside

- beer

- traditional

Concepts:

1.  People of Yorkshire : Photographic journal of candid photographs of Yorkshire folk, stereotypes,  

     breaking stereotypes a whole array of the people who call Yorkshire home.

2. A - Z of Yorkshire : An attempt to find something that is related to yorkshire for every letter of the 

    alphabet. Illustration style.

3. Everything Leeds : As Village is a Leeds based independent book store it needs an everything Leeds 

    zine featuring photographs of things that are typically Leeds.

4. Yorkshire traverlers: Make the magazine not a one off, but a series where for each edition of the zine 

    it focuses on a different yorkshire location. Include facts about the location but mainly photographic 

    journal, using film cameras to add a classic feeling, which yorkshire towns encompass. 

Concept #4 - Yorkshire Traverlers :

This is the chosen concepts as it will able the zine to be an on going thing and exploration of Yorkshire and may bring up some places that people may not have visited before.

To get going the first location needs to be selected this will be done by random, to add an element of surprise and exploration.

Location #1 - Hebden Bridge 

Above are a selection of photographs from the day (there were around 75 printed photographs). For this project a got a friend of mine Sarah Britton involved so that the photographs could be taken by two people, which will add a dynamic to the zine as it is two people perspective of Hebden Bridge, we may see different things or focus on different things or capture the town differently.

The day was a success we got a vast amount of photographs that I think capture and tell the story of Hebden bridge. Next step is to find relative and interesting facts about Hebden Bridge. 

Below is a selection of facts about Hebden Bridge :

Some of the facts match up really well with the photographs we got so the most relevant facts will be chosen. This zine is going to be mainly visual, so you can get your own feeling and opinions on Hebden Bridge, so facts will be kept to a minimum, but enough so there is enough variation in the zine.

Design process :

The size of the zine is just under a4, which is quite a large format for a zine, but this will able the images to be of a good size and make the zine more keepable because it will be substantial rather then just a tiny little thing that you throw out.

Above is a quick play with layout out, I don't think that it works, the image is too big and will have the join in the middle of it, which although looks fine on parts of an image , right down the middle might be a bit too much. So I will design using smaller images.


 


I want each zine to have a unique aspect of the town that will be different to every other zine in the series. This will be achieved by taking a picture of the floor in that town, finding a unique, battered or stained section of pavement. Above is the effect I have achieved from doing so. From the picture of the pavement from Hebden Bridge, I took a section of it and vectorised it to get a strong pattern effect, this will then be used in the zine as boarders and spines for the pages.

Experimentation with colour / layout :




The above is an experimentation with colour. On the river the most common colour for the barges were either burgundy or navvy blue, so I tried to incorporate this colour scheme to the boarder.

Above is the boarder in black. Althougth I like the concept that the boarder incorporates the colours of the Hebden Bridge river, I think the use of colour in the boarder detracts from the photographs and makes the colours fight, so I will be keeping the boarder just black.

The above is more the layout I will be going with as the images still looked too big. The layout will be one image per page, and the image will be in the same place each time to add consistancy and flow to the zine (except for the above example which is an exception to break up the zine so it doesn't get stale)

Above is the layout I have chosen to use, it is clean and simple and lets the photographs and text speak. The spine decoration adds a unique and interesting spin to the clean layout. I am happy with how the book is looking the pictures are telling the story of Hebden Bridge well.

Digital version of finished book.

Before printing the book I did some test runs to check everything was working, and discovered that the pt size I have used for the text is far too big, it is distracting (when the text is meant to be subtle and images main focus) and very child like, so even though it looked fine on the screen it is massively different in real life. I will alter the point size to small size.