The zine was printed on usual printer cartridge stock that did not hinder the overall quality. The colours reproduced are strong and despite the thinness, the colours do not show through to the next page. What the thinness of the stock adds to is the easy reading experience it is meant to achieve. The thin stock doesn't feel substantial enough to make it feel of a professional quality however within context, it is appropriate for the zine's purpose.
A sewn bound was chosen to demonstrate one of the new skills I learned on the course. The yellow thread is unassuming and lets the zine's content be the focus. Unfortunately there are still problems in printing that have been cropping up since the start of the course. The alignment of the two sided spreads is always slightly off which affects the dimensions of the pages, displays colours from other spreads and affects the overall reading experience. However because of the context of the publication of being a zine, these problems can be relatively overlooked. Even though printing in greyscale would have made the publication cheaper to produce, the colour is needed to maintain the readers attention and is part of the zine's appeal.
Overall through the constant visual overload of colours, small A5 size and brief descriptions of designers, the zine achieves the aim of being an accessible and easy read for new student to learn about a selection of editorial designers. Furthermore this small zine is probably my best demonstration of understanding editorial design. Learning from the mistakes made in Design Principles, there is a lot more consistency in the contents layout. The layouts that needed to be experimental worked within the context of the content and didn't stray too far. The content has a focused scope which was a problem in the second brief of OUGD404. This meant that along with the layouts cohesion, there is a cohesion with the content, which makes the reading experience easier for the reader.
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