My Zine -First Draft Layout and Fold

 Designing My First Single Sheet Zine

I’m really enjoying this clever little design. It takes me way back to my college graphic art program days. I really had to just try out an approach in pen on paper and then test the folds to see if I positioned the page numbers correctly. I wasn’t even thinking of content or visuals yet. 

Once I was satisfied I had the folding mechanism working, then it was on to the rough visual layouts for each page. 

Fully folded zine.

Eight individual pages when folded.

Instead of eight more pages I chose a full poster design.

In an effort to not overwhelm myself on the journalistic front, I’ve decided to keep body copy to a minimum and convey my theme of “The search for immortality” through a more comic book illustration method. Also, instead of adding eight more pages of content on the opposite side, I went with a full page poster of my own fictional character “Professor Joseph Humble” (aka Lord Humble who is already featured in my musical release, titled “The Humble Initiative” now streaming everywhere). I used to love buying magazines that had a center pull out poster you could hang on your wall. So this option is kind of a win-win for me.

I will post the final zine when I get there. 

Until next time, take care.
Nudge