Zine Collaboration: Olivia Parr

Brief:

Create a photo zine based on photos taken from Instagram featuring photos taken by tourists which have had the attraction removed. 

Initially the Olivia contacted me via email (see figure 1) after some discussion via text, in order to explain the brief and provide visuals (see figures 2-3) to help inform initial ideas and designs for the collaberation. This allowed me to prepare some layout experimentations before the first meeting in order to be able to discuss and develop the zine quickly due to the limited time available (one day).

Once Olivia showed me the initial visuals she had used as part of her COP module, I developed some designs based on Oliva's initial ideas in relation to having a photo per page (see figure 4-5). However upon discussion we developed the idea of creating the zine in a square with full bleed images (see figure 6) as inspired by the photos themselves which have been taken from Instagram. I also experimented with highlighting the missing attraction by picking a colour from the photo featured on the page in order to create a contrast to show the missing section of the photo.

Upon discussion of our initial ideas, both Olivia and I really liked the implementation of the square and colour blocking in order to highlight the concept of the photos. This agreement allowed for the design processes to develop quite quickly as once the photos had been selected for the publication I could organise them based on the dialogue we created consisting of organising attractions by least to most popular based on the number of photos for each attraction. Experiments with incorporating the caption of the photo, as suggested by Olivia, at the beginning of new set of attractions. However this was hard to consistently implement due to the different shapes of the photos due having the attraction removed. Initially we tried to incorporate the caption into the pose of the tourist (see figures 7-8), however we felt this was to much of a gimmick so tried to incorporate the captions in the bottom left to replicate the placement of Instagram captions, however as the images where full bleed the text got lost within the photo (see figure 9). As a result it was decided to leave the captions out of the zine and focus solely on the images. Further experiments consisted of including a gap between the colour block and photo (as suggested by Olivia) and a version without, both of which where discussed to determine which to print (see figure 10-11). As a result of reviewing both option we decided that the one with gaps would be printed as this defined the photos more. In relation to the cover (see figure 12) I chose to feature a colour from one of the photos in order to keep a consistant colour throughout the book as all the colours within the blocked out sections have been taken from the sky in order to create a consistent theme within the publication due to the different shapes and colours within the photos themselves.

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