I though about what sort of imagery I could use for the front and back of the zine and also the style and aesthetic I wanted for the publication. I had to use a front cover which would set the tone for the entire product, it had to be relevant and eye catching for people to be drawn to it. Having researched a wide selection of zines I was unsure which route to take in terms of style. I had visited the Tetley and looked at the Picture Book exhibition, which had a huge amount of work by Craig Atkinson, an illustrator, photographer and designer who produces zines on mundane every day things, using mainly images in his work he creates small black and white publications which look on from an aspect of a working class person. His publications take a very basic design style yet always conform to a grid which Atkinson uses on every one of his works in this series.
Atkinson usually uses old black and white images for the front covers of his work which is then followed by a contents which is all black and white images, and when he uses colour image front covers, the contents will then also be coloured. The front covers provide the title and some information on the contents of the zine all in a neat section at the top of the cover, the style is inspired by the Marber grid, used by penguin books, and something I researched thoroughly for my first publication.
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