How I created a zine to disseminate my work.

I have been using social media as a way of showing my work to others for some years now. However, I have to decide on using a more material way which can be held by the viewer. The zine was my first choice. I created my concept of  empire-rise and decline and shot the images. The stages of empire is a good concept to use as I knew what I wanted to convey in my zine though images. 

The best way I found to make a digital zine was using a PowerPoint template which gave me many options such as changing fonts, borders and size of images or text in the zine. There are numbered pages and instructions were to cut so the zine folds. 

The process of adding the cover was easy and involved editing on Adobe Express. I then downloaded the cover onto my PC and added it to the template. This was the process for all the images I created. I found this to be trial and error and the more I played with the template, the more I understood how to use it and became more competent using it. The snag I encountered was some images were shot in landscape and some in portrait. I decided to put all the portrait images together and the landscape images together also. This gave the document some uniformity. I eventually removed the portrait images and replaced them with landscape instead. 

The zine was printed and folded. I found the process cheap to create-I used my work places printer and my works PC to conceive the zine to creating the hard copy. The hard copy can be carried and given to people to promote your work. The costs are very low as you only need a printer and computer to create the zine. As well as camera and access to at least Adobe Express to edit the desired images such as the front cover. The images I used for the zine were all shot in landscape so this created continuity. 

I am happy with the second attempt at creating a zine. However, I am going to adapt this design and improve on it more in the coming weeks. 

I chose 2 text types to go into the zine. The cover was bold to emphasize the tittle. As the process evolved and I understood how to use the program better. I created a corporate logo on Adobe Express and put a boarder around it. The logo section on Adobe Express was easy enough to use and I just kept the whole thing simple in terms of context. The font I used was Stencil STD Bold-it reminded me of a military font.

Adobe offer several templates that can be modified. I changed the type color and the backgrounds color to black. I added a white border around the page to break it up a bit.