Tagged: illustration

magazine content breakdown

  • 3-5 full page adverts
  • portraits of team, editor’s letter, contents page
  • main editorial: male and female model in date settings (cinema, bowling alley, diner) 6 double pages
  • secondary article: rise of males wearing make-up/Youtube make-up tutorial trend
  • editorial: males wearing subtle make-up (provoking thought and question their gender)
  • editorial: female getting ready for a date (references: Petra Collins, Nan Goldin, Juergen Teller. female pampering and grooming routines) around 4 double pages
  • main feature article: embarrassing Tinder stories from the public. illustrations alongside
  • interview with couple that met on Tinder + imagery
  • advertorial: Monki (shot in Edward Street building. yellow. simplistic styling and bright, fun, colourful setting) 4 double pages ? + illustration over top ?
  • still life shoot: food, sexualising food (references: Ladybeard promotion, Jala Wahid sculptures, Rebecca Storm)
  • band or artist interview OR spotify playlist

final zine!!

IMG_8162When I came to print my zine and put all the pages together, including my laser-cut cover and pink end pages, I used a 5 hole pamphlet stitch to bind it together as one publication. 

I also packaged them in A5 cellophane bags to help protect the laser-cut design and glitter paper, and also give them a clean, polished look.
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.gif experimentation

I started to create simple .gif animations from my illustrations/collages. I looked at elements of the image I could make move or appear/disappear to create a more dynamic and exciting image that viewers would look at rather than scroll past. In this image I erased sections of the yellow brush stroke and saved the image at each stage before combining the frames into a .gif to show the scribble being ‘painted’ on the screen.

still up gif improved
I then experimented with this collage I made near the beginning of the module. I scanned the collage in and then used the clone tool and spot healing brush to fill in the curtain and flooring to make the ballet dancer disappear but still leave the photograph looking whole. This created a really eerie effect which I thought fit in with the Twitter text of ‘What’s happening?’.

ballet gif improved

collage experimentation

As part of my image-making experimentation within my concept, I bought a range of old 1950s photographs in a local thrift store, and decided to place them in collages with imagery related to social media and internet use. By juxtaposing these vintage photos with iMessage conversations, Twitter and Facebook text boxes, it creates a strange contrast between how people spent their days prior to the internet and social media and how we spend our time and communicate now. I also found that placing these different kinds of images with each other created storylines and a weird sense of mystery about the photographs and the characters within them.

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