This is our Pen Profile for the target consumer we want the zine to be aimed towards. It gives a small insight into their life.

Ideas and Inspiration---

-free badges with illustrations in relation to our subject matter.

-small, landscape layout to be in fitting with a small witty booklet.

-consider if we were to name our zine 'Spring Clean', how we could make our visuals support this name.

Illustrator- Sarah Douglas

I really like Sarah's gentle illustrations she has created, she's managed to get a message across in a simple drawing so it's nice and easy on the eye. The way she's used block text and only coloured in a few letters also looks very effective and fitting with her illustrations.

Possible Cover?

If we decided to stick with the idea of the bird and cage, with the birds acting as peoples feelings caged up inside a cage, the front cover of the zine could take a similar look to this.

Instead of having black ink on colour, white offers a more crisp and clearer image i think and would stand out much more.

Layout and Design inspiration

I think a landscape layout is the minority layout chosen for zines, so to take this layout, it would give the zine an individual layout. I also think it's a nicer layout for our content too, as it's smaller, more compact and a fun size which all mimicks our zine.

The first picture of the neon pink zine really inspires me to print our cover similar to this.

It gives it a stunning industrial effect, we could design our cover first and then transfer onto a stamp, then stamp black ink on a variety of neon covers.

Samples of Zines

From looking at these zines, i can see that every one of them stands out for their unique and individual appearance. Personally for me, i don't think i would be as persuaded to purchase the A3 black and white zine (far right) as for me it would be too big to just have a quick flip through on the train or bus home for example. We want a size that our readers are able to pull out anywhere for a quick, humorous read!

From this image, i'm really inspired to perhaps do our front cover on a different media from paper.

The bottom left zine is my favourite on this, i specifically like the hand drawn rough border going down the left side of it, and although it's not perfect, it gives the front cover a much better structure and clearer image than the others.

This is a lovely idea for any zine i think. It could be adapted to our zine in that we could have a cage of 'annoying creatures' that have BURST out and into the world travelling the country getting opinions of other people on what annoys them, allowing them to share their thoughts on our website, which we can then run features on every issue updating people on where they've been and what opinions they've discovered.

BRIGHT

This zine grabbed my attention next to about 10 other zines immediatly because of it BRIGHT, NEON cover.

Definitly a colour trick to consider when designing our cover.