OUGD402 - Studio Brief 02 - Zine Cover Designs

I wanted to create a set unique covers for the zines that would work individually but also link the series as a whole. When looking at the content there seemed to be a recurring theme of circles - drawing circles by hand, the moon and the sun both being spherical objects, and oranges being a spherical fruit. It only seemed natural to include this as a motif on the front covers, and so I sketched out some ideas for each zine.

I wanted to screenprint the covers for each zine as I wanted the exterior to appear more professionally made, and to contrast with the obviously handmade interior, so I digitalised these designs and exposed them onto a screenprinting screen.

To match the limited colour palette I had used for the content of the zines I used black stock for each cover and screenprinted each design in white, with the exception of The Orange Juice Compendium, which I screenprinted in orange. I initially had difficulty with the opacity of the orange paint on the stock, as the paint wasn't vivid enough to stand out again the black. However this issue was solved by printing a white circle first and then overlaying that with the orange paint in order to create a basecoat.