OUGD402 - Studio Brief 02 - Collating and Binding

The simplest and most professional form of binding for these zines was to all of the pages in half and do a simple saddle stitch. This kind of binding is minimally invasive to the content of the zines, while also being one of the strongest. These facilities were available to me in college and so I used a creaser and perforating machine to crease each page and cover directly down the middle, and then used an industrial stapling machine to bind each spine with two staples. Before binding I also added a tracing paper insert to each zine, as a form of protective layer to shield the inner pages. This is also a technique I have used on many of my other personal publications in the past, and I felt it was appropriate to stick to previous aesthetic guidelines for the sake of cohesion between past and present work.

zine folding in progress

zine folding in progress