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Zine Internal Assignment

This next assignment was to build the internals for the magazine cover that I designed. I wanted to have the magazine article be about animation in some way. So I chose to make my article about the history of computers in animation while focusing on the development of computer graphics. I am very facinated with computer hardware so I wanted to do my best to summerize the great advancements since 1960 that still have an impact on the technology that is currently in use in the animation industry. 

I kept the same color scheme from the cover. I chose the subtitle colors and the colors of the circuit designs from the theme that I designed for the cover. The overall font and extra symbols I used for the title and the headers, are based upon a unix console interface. These things are all to help with the overall techie feel that I am aiming for in this magazine. 

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  1. Taylor PohlmanApril 21, 2020 at 8:43 PM

    Hi again Jacob! I honestly had to look at this multiple times to admire how well it fits the theme of the zine you made. I think you did a great job with the grid composition. I also like the page numbers at the bottom and how they alternate sides. It definitely feels like a textbook. I would possibly change the color of that seagreen text to something a little darker though, it's a little hard to read against a white background. I don't know anything about computers, but is there a reason there's a dollar sign at the beginning of each subheading? I'd be interested to see how this compares to a published book though!

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    1. Emilie MitchellApril 22, 2020 at 8:20 PM

      Jacob,

      Great job with this assignment! The first thing I notice when I look at your spreads is a large amount of white space. Even though you did include images this still sticks out to me. I would suggest playing around with adding color backgrounds to some of your texts boxes or even frames around your images to help with this. I think your choice of type fits your zine theme really well. Similarly to Taylor, I am questioning the reasoning behind your choice of dollar sign beside your headings. I am also not very educated in this area though so I apologize if there is a connection I am not understanding! Another way to strengthen your zine could be to mask out the background behind your image on page 3 so that no one can tell the picture was taken in your home or wherever and looks more legitimate. You can definitely tell you used grids; however I would love to see you experiment with different layouts for your text. For example, using 3 columns instead of 2 or even breaking some into multiple rows. I think this would help change your overall feel from textbook-ish more to magazine. I look forward to seeing your final project!

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