My illustration group met at Nexus Art Cafe in Manchester's Northern Quarter at 10am, ready for a morning of sipping fine tea and looking through their new addition; The Salford Zine Library.
Next week we will be learning how to do perfect binding, taught by Lucy Wilson in the hope that we can use her technique and adapt it to suit our own style and method of work, and use it in future to create our own zines.
It was really useful to look at existing zines in order to find out what I personally did and didn't like. I made note of the types of paper, realising I much preferred a thick textured paper rather than anything remotely glossy. I Loved seeing the stitching down the spine, all qualities that really show that it has been hand made. I took some photographs as examples of how they can be approached in different ways. The first image shows that the pages do not all need to be the same size which as an idea I would like to experiment with. The second image encourages the incorporation of writing/note taking as part of the book. I often find that a high percentage of my sketchbooks is me writing about all my ideas and theories which are really, the essence of my work. Why not include my notes to give my illustrations meaning. Finally the third image displayed a wide variation in compositions. Some illustrations were vignettes in the centre of the page and then when you turned over you would be faced with a full page spread or perhaps a small drawing placed in the corner of a page.
I will keep all of these ideas in mind for next week at university when creating my first zine (the contents of which will be my summer project). Below is an example of lucy wilson's beautifully bound sketchbooks, found at http://www.elizabethsheart.com/index.php?/new/sketchbooks/.
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