Improper - Project Change

Due to the limitations of not being able to access facilities and events being cancelled that we are now facing, My collaborator on this project, Ella, decided to change up the format of this project to be a bit more manageable. 

Now instead of a zine and a poster, there will be 4-5 poster zines, which will have a cover and back but then fold out to display a larger poster style layout of the featured work. Each featured artist will have a different poster zine so the inside content of each one will be different. 

I hadn’t done too much serious design work so this hasn’t put me at a disadvantage, on the contrary I thin k its a really great idea and a fun format to use. I also think it would be a good idea to maybe look at design for the zine/events social media page because thats probably the only platform people will be able to access it on for now. 

I made a checklist of what I need to do for this project in order to manage my time efficiently. 

  1. Figure out the way the poster zine will fold - what content will be on each page/side.
  2. Keep developing and finalise a design identity - logo, colour, type - it should all be cohesive, so even when looking at poster zines with different artists work on, they still obviously look like they’re from the same series. 
  3. From here its coming up with an approach for- front and back cover, poster and the inside content for each artist. These will be greatly informed by the design identify and visual language I create. 

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