The final design for the zine ‘La forme feminine’ successfully responds to the brief as it demonstrates an understanding of editorial design showcasing the work of Courtney Richmond. The final layout shows consistency and consideration of the placing of the images but by keeping a wide variation across all the pages so that it doesn’t become too repetitive. The production of the zine was very successful as the colours came out nicely on the sturdy paper stock meaning there was nothing removed from the bright and vibrant images. The use of a simple saddle stitch meant there was a small margin for error giving a neat and polished final outcome.
Monday, 6 May 2019
OUGD603 - Courtney Richmond, Rationale
Rationale
Courtney Richmond is a 3rd year fashion photography student and her chosen theme for her imagery is surrealism. She needed help from a graphic designer in creating the zine for her dissertation. The zine ‘La forme feminine’ is designed to show of the photographs that Courtney has taken based all around the marvellous. The zine uses a select combination of her chosen images and a small amount of text to highlight the reasoning behind the photography. ‘La forme feminine’ showcases Courtneys ability to take crisp images with bright and vibrant colouring.
OUGD603 - Courtney Richmond, Production
Production
The production of the zine was a fairly straight forward process. The zine was printed onto a moderately sturdy stock meaning that it wasn’t too delicate for if it were to be placed in an exhibition or shop for the numerous people that would flick through it. It was then cut down to size and bound with a simple saddle stitch. The chosen colour of the thread was white due to the pages being white and a lot of white within the imagery. This therefore would be distracting when stitched down the middle of the full page spreads.
OUGD603 - Courtney Richmond, Design Development
Design Development
The design development involved sitting with Courtney and looking through the different experiments with the layout seen in the initial stages of designing. The images above show the finalised pages for the zine design. The front cover demonstrates the clean and simple aesthetic that is correlated throughout the rest of the pages of the zine. The second set of images use a full bleed image on one page followed by a cropped image on the next page as seen in the OE spreads. The chosen image for the middle full bleed image can be seen above while using the other image that was tried as a smaller image but still taking a full spread. The typography was placed on the page next to a photograph which was imaged . This felt the most appropriate page to have the quote about the marvellous on it as it is one of the most surreal images within the zine showing a relation to the wording of the quote. The final page is a full bleed image using the same model as the image used on the front cover . This was to ensure consistency across the front and the back cover.
OUGD603 - Courtney Richmond, Initial Designs
Initial Designs
The initial ideas for ‘La forme feminine’ involved experiments with the layouts. Courtney had already selected all the pictures that she wanted in the zine. The first images are experiments for the front cover. One is inspired by the front cover of Pylot. This is an interesting aesthetic but not the aesthetic that Courtney was hoping for. The other is more clean and simplistic and this is the style that the client decided she wanted the most. The rest of the zine therefore should follow a similar pattern. Courtney knew that she wanted a full bleed image as the middle pages of the zine. The images seen above are two landscape images that worked well as full bleed images. She also wanted a quote about the marvellous somewhere within the zine. This was the only typography that she wanted within the zine. The images for another spread of pages use the typography within the white space on the pages. One uses a whole page for the text which looks nice and follows the clean aesthetic but as the zine is supposed to be about the photography it seemed a waste of a page. The other is inspired by the OE spreads incorporating the typography into the imagery. The type was placed across the body of the horse meaning it was still legible but also worked layered over the photograph.
OUGD603 - Courtney Richmond, Research
Research
The research for Courtneys zine was mainly considering existing fashion photography zines and the way in which they are laid out. The imagses are examples of very commercial zine layout. The use of full page images and also blank pages that are only for text. These contain more information rather than just based on the photography like the zine that Courtney wants to create. The third image is the front cover of Pylot. This is a slightly more artistic zine and the front cover is a good source of inspiration for a slightly less simplistic and clean zine. The final images are example spreads from OE. OE is less based around current trends but concentrates on showing off fashion by focusing purely on the images. OE was the main source of inspiration for ‘La forme feminine’ due to the focus on the imagery. OE is also striving to promote still using printed matter. They use different papers of various qualities and want to be an item that people like to hole, keep and collect. As the zine being made for Courtney will be printed this was a very relevant zine for research.
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