The three spreads below are from a zine, due to accompany a newsstand magazine, that gives a brief rundown of the 2008 Presidential Election. This zine is geared toward a younger crowd that might come across it rifling through their dad's stash or might just be given to kids by parents who want their kids to learn about the election. It covers the two final candidates, their VPs, their platforms, background info, a campaign defining quote, the candidates they beat out, their platforms, a US map of electoral votes each candidate won and a map comparing the previous election's electoral results.

Since President Barack Obama was the first African-American President, I thought it apt to use strictly black and white throughout the project. Having made numerous flyers for rock shows long ago and been in many situations to access zines, I'm familiar enough to know that they are black and white for cost and readability and that it would never be laid out as uniformly as I've done here. I'm a fan of symmetry and this zine is very symmetrical.

Either way the zine is picked up, it is readable to the middle spread which contains the two US maps comparing this election with the previous one. I wanted to be sure I had a uniform effect on each image used, so I hit up the live trace to achieve the result. It made using the many differently lit, differently cropped, differently set up images, a much easier task while working to my design advantage.

 

(sidenote: I recall submitting this as part One, of a Two part final project, in the Fall '08 semester, but went seeking edits from peers before. Many remarked of its 'timeliness,' having occurred six weeks ago and I echoed those conerns during my presentation to the class. The wiser, experienced professor rebuffed those notions by reminding us the upcoming inauguration was that same six weeks away. Savor victory.)