Zine: Visual Inspiration

In order to gain some visual inspiration I've looked at existing books that take a humorous approach to certain topics such as Read This If You Want To Be Instagram Famous (see figure 1) and Little Book of Foreign Swear Words (see figure 2). I look particularly at these publications (see figures 1-4) as take a simple approach to design allowing the subject matter inside to speak for itself. This is something we discussed incorporating within the zine due to the different shapes of the images, we wanted the layout to be simple so it would work with the content. Furthermore I wanted to look at both Read This If You Want To Be Instagram Famous and Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs Of Places (see figure 3-4) as they're both centred around similar topics to the zine I will be designing, as these books where discussed when we we're discussing the approach to the zine, due to the humorous connotations within  This If You Want To Be Instagram Famous . However the zine we will be producing has the opposite content to that of the Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs Of Places as the photos featured within the publication are not great and are quite low quality, which provided us with an interesting juxtaposition as we wanted to take a simple approach to layout but still make the publication look like a zine.  

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