So this was a zine i designed a couple of months ago at college. Basically we had to do three articles or interviews on designers/events or places related to the creative industries in Glasgow. We had to think of the name, style and content for the zine whilst following the specifications we wrote in the brief (had to write our own brief). I wanted to basically make the zine like its name 'dotty'. I wrote two articles on Tony McKay and Chris Rafferty (check their work out) and was even lucky enough to interview owl print and design (if you need printing go there). I'd like to thank everybody who helped and this was a lot of fun to make. The whole point was to print 20 copies (one for everybody in the class) which was very stressful but anyways I do like this little zine and its little cute drawings.

 

As for the logo I chose american typewriter because it does feel a little psychotic (reminded me of old asylum notes written by typewriter) and drew it by hand to tie in with the hand generated drawings and type. I muddled up the letters to fit in with the entire dotty theme. Everything in this zine is a little dotty but not insane. I'll leave the brief I wrote at the bottom on the page if you want to read it. I pretty much lived in my sketchbook during this project. 

 

Feel free to let me know what you think. Kim xxx

 

 

My design proposal is that I’ve to create an art and design zine. The zine will be distributed in Glasgow so will mainly be about Glasgow. It will talk about what’s happening in a range of fields in the Glasgow art world (i.e. Illustration, graphic design, light art and photography). The target audience is 18 – 40 year old students and design professionals interested in many fields of design. The zine will take pride in not boxing itself in by talking about all of these fields to draw more designers in. This means I aim for the zine to appeal to this very hip audience with a very lively and crazy design. I want this to reference the very first zines, which had creative designs and broke the rules. My objective is to design a zine innovative enough that these design professionals/students will broaden their fields and be in touch with the Glasgow art world. Normal people might not get why the zine exactly breaks the rules but hopefully designers will marvel at whatever way I try to express this. The entire message will be conveyed throughout the zine in print. For the three double page spreads I plan to do an interview, an article and a review.