After putting together the first draft of my zine, one major obstacle I faced was the lack of pages for this assignment. I did not want my narrative to seem rushed and I still wanted to retain the minimalist quality to my work so this will be an ongoing challenge.

These were some of my design inspirations going into my first draft:

Here is my first draft with Mimi’s general comments below:

I decided to go with hand-written typography to give my text a more authentic and personal feel. I also tried to give the whole zine a more open look limiting my spreads to having not more than two photographs. Here are the main points I gathered from today’s consultation:

1. Mimi felt that I should explore on using fonts instead of handwriting because she loved the font used on the back page.
2. The photos are not being given enough airtime because of their size so perhaps I could explore letting some of them bleed to the edges.
3. The cover image could be stronger and we discussed doing a swop of images that will be applied to my next draft.
4. Mimi was not here for the centre spread on pages 3 to 4 so I will rework that.

Stay tuned to the next update! 🙂