PPP 2- STUDIO BRIEF 2 - Zine Cover/Sketches

Zine Cover

The selected method of production of the zine cover is to screen print the design content,  this is with the aim as to reflect the manual aspect of the zines subject area whilst also including links quotes feedback and the professional opinions  (link to the way that artists describe manual as physically more appealing/effective). 

The aim of the collection of quotes is to inform a target audeince of how to best create typographical content, advice form the artist on their methods and how they prefer to work. This is to help inform my typographical design process at this stage of my degree and learn process, whilst also giving an in-site to the subject area from professionals themselves about how they product work for industry and why they prefer the different mediums. After studying at the responses the common theme is to start the process manually then edit/scan/print digitally the find outcome but to design by hand at first, due to this the cover design aspect of the zine will follow the advice. The cover design process with directly follow the advice given to reflect successful process.

   

drawn developments - idea taken from feedback into how best to do type -

The title is of the sine will follow the lines of ' Manual and Digial Typography', in effort to reflect the different styles manual fluid expressive decorative type will be used for the manual aspect whereas harsh bold sharp digital type for the digital element, linking visually to the difference and expressing strong the characteristic of the typographical styles.

An issue with hand drawn flourish type styles are they implies feminine tones to the work, as the zine represents professional for both genders therefore aims not to express these bias tones.  

manual type reflect manual fluid, free typographical styles 

digital type reflect harsh modern bold styles 

first mock ups/post card designs -

These first ideas are the development of the postcard that where sent out as part of this brief, the design of them could be brought into the book. Currently none of the post card have had feedback sent but this could improve over the last few days of the brief, (sent out cards to late/time management issue)

TOO FEMININE 

After create a first design i'm not happy with the tone, or the feminine aspects of the type therefore this idea will go back to the first drawnings. After reanaylsying  type experimental drawning the features needed to be expressed are fluidity (express the different between manual and digital type), originality (contrast overly, use common digital type), legibility (needs to be decrotive and fluid yet readable for the audeince), gender neutral, non agressive (as the tone of the book is complementary to typography, positive light hearted tone). The type experiment that fits all these elements effectively is the second page sketch, as this takes a sans serif legible type by adds a manual imperfect feel via the decrotive nature.        

FIRST DEVELOPMENTS-

 As the context of the zine reflect all the artists different styles the cover design should take influence for these but also reflect my personal style. As i'm not included in the zine my artist representation will be via the layout as well as the cover design, this will be the typographical way to represent my personality as a designer as well as to show my work and influences on the zine.  

background - 

A large amount of the typographical work featured in the included decorative flourishes or aded detail around the text therefore this cover will mimic this feature, this will also allow the typography to add more colour and contrast the background effectively.

type -

-accurate bit not playful

-futura used to link to inside pages whilst expressing digital common place typeforms in a more playful less harsh layout as to link to the informal nature of the zine

-many of the piece in the zine as well as my own personal work include drop shadows or different over lapped layers, there this added to the cover, also added more detailed the to work.

a more 'digial' 70's computer typeface used to represent the digital nature

Overlapped different type added to reflect personal style whilst also added a playful less formal nature to the cover whilst allows the digital typeface to represent digital design more directly via the harsher lines than the orignal futura.

- A guide to type added to the top of the design, this is to add balance to to the bottom heavy design styles whilst framing the content and give purpose to the zine.

final design :) need to be screen printed