I'm not going to lie, the first zine i made was a rather shoddy attempt. I cared more about the content than what was inside. However, i have been trying out little mock up zines in order to see what type of binding i would like. I want to keep it the same size (A6) as it makes it seem like something precious, something that you can keep and look after, and ultimately something that you can always have on you. However, even though i preferred the zine landscape, i am changing this to be portrait. Order of services are traditionally portrait, i have never seen one landscape, and so i wanted to stick to this. Here are some the mock up zines i produced:
For this next lot i decided to bind with thread. This seemed to work effectively and look good. I then printed this back to front text onto tracing paper to see how it would look. However, after just printing it once, i decided this was not right. You are unable to read it, there is just too much going on here. If i am to print it back to front, i will have to change paper, or just not print like this. |
I therefore bound one that was page by page. As you can see from it being printed on tracing paper, this one worked better by being single paged. The grey colour worked well too as it wasn't too dominant, but i am just not too sure on the tracing paper.