The Illustrated Self: Zine Development

Today I spent 10 hours in the studio (exhaustive but rewarding) working on a zine for PPP. I feel that the poster just wouldn't work well on a large scale format but downsized looked okay. It got me thinking that I should push forward with my original zine idea.

By taking screen grabs of several Power Rangers episodes last night (and realising how truly dated that program is) I had enough stock images to create a zine using collage. I wanted to incorporate the defining aspects of my year into this piece, so I used collage, halftone, shape and thought greatly about the colour of the piece. I also added a bit of satirical humour into it as well as created a front and back cover (made from my unused poster). I used the Cintiq's to write the speech within the zine as I have terrible handwriting and was able to write over digital text to create a personal typeface of sorts.

I then printed it out.