Now I had all the images I needed, I could begin developing each separate zine. As I went along, I did find that I needed to keep going back and printing new things, be it content or images, however, I had a strong initial starting point with what I had already collected.
During a crit for my initial designs, my tutor noted that he didn't personally thing my illustrations suited the aesthetics of an original Riot Grrrl zine. He stated that personally he didn't feel that they reflected my subject and content to it's full potential. I therefore wanted to use my research to influence my layouts. Original Riot Grrrl zines were very haphazard, and almost careless in a sense. There wasn't too much need for worrying about cutting out perfectly, or making a mistake. I wanted to mirror this by using my scanned in images. Courier also seemed the obvious choice for my zine, as this is the most used typefaces within zines of this style, mainly because of it's typewriter characteristics.
I moved away from using my own illustrations and decided that at the end I could go back and draw on the pages, as well as using stickers etc, in order to better reflect my content. Although quite messy, simplicity was sometimes key during my development. There was no worry about any sort of continuous layout, or a need to fill a page. I made sure that every page followed the same aesthetic, but not the same layout as this is not how an original zine works.
Below is some of the development of the pages for the music zine, using relevant image, content and type, all in greyscale. The destination of all images used will be stated towards the back of the publication for copyright issues.
Introduction
Courtney Love
Kathleen Hanna
Kate Nash
The Gossip
Tobi Vail
Allison Wolfe
The Cribs
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