So… Zine. Never heard of it but i was told that … IT COULD BE ANYTHING!!!

 Well, with no idea in mind, I turned to Pinterest, Behance and Google for ideas. My initial intention was to create something minimal with photographs that I took throughout the entire year but then i realized that I wanted to showcase the works I did for 2D in the form of a process book. Given the complete different aesthetic in my projects, I then decided to come out with my own layout. Nevertheless, I drew many inspirations from the online resources. Here are some that caught my attention.

 

This was the inspiration for my initial front and back covers. Love the minimal look to it.

 

I was captivated by the layout and color scheme of this spread.

There were many spreads that I saw with a full image taking the entire page and I wanted to go for a similar look as it grabs viewers attention.

I am intrigued by the clever use of shapes and icons, as well as manipulation of types to create something so bizarre and interesting. But I felt that it doesn’t fit in with my style and so I did not mimic the designs of this.

 

Really cool idea to have a translucent layer in front of the front cover to create some sort of a mysterious feel to the zine.

 

Love this spread for its clean layout. The choice of colors, types and background textures works very well and I was hoping to achieve something similar.

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