final product!
Finally finished my punk zine! Not going to lie, I really struggled with the punk aesthetic. My comfort zone is composed of grids, colour palettes and well proportioned imagery, so researching and creating this punk aesthetic really threw a spanner in the works in terms of the way that I design! I spent hours upon hours of looking through punk album covers, posters and zines, and while doing so became pretty accustomed to the way they talked and expressed things on the page. In the end, I kind of loved it. The freedom and mess is unlike any other design movement, and there was just so much to explore and experiment with. I was doing both manual and digital cutting and collaging, photocopying and scanning in random objects fro around my house, scribbling, gluing and doodling. It was a blast.
Some of the technical components trumped me for a while though; such as creating a coloured paper ‘background’ for some of my images (photoshop - solid colour layer - multiply overlay) which took WAY too long to figure out, as well as resizing and compressing a lot of the images. Just goes to show that in the chaos of punk you still can’t forget about those crucial things! Anyways. I have really enjoyed being a part of this class this semester. It has challenged me creatively, and I loved getting to know more about the history of design, especially from two legends of the industry who have so much knowledge on the subject. Here are a few pages from my final assignment:
(sources above in bibliography)
