K10 Anni Zine
Overview
This year my partner and I turn 10 and I wanted to make him another magazine! I previously made one for him when we hit 5 years and I think this year was the year to reflect back on that project to do things differently and continue to add to our story.
The magazine comprised of 5 “chapters;” Outdoors, Travel, Music, Museums, and Date Days. Each chapter honed in on a specific event or time spent together within the topic.
Branding Explorations
I began branding exploration a little less than a year in advance and the first thing that I was thinking about was the color palette for this project as it’s something that would set the vibe and tone of the book itself. The colors I ended up choosing were all different hues of both of our favorite colors; his being indigo and creme/beige and mine being olive and orange. Using the beige color as the base provided opportunity for consistent, high contrast throughout the book with the rest of the palette. The title font I chose for this project was PP Hatton as it was versatile being a more vast font family and it had high contrast while complimenting the body copy font chosen, PP Neue Montreal.
Spreads
Creating spreads for this project, was one of the most challenging and fun parts. All of the pictures included in this magazine were taken by me or my partner so it was an interesting exercise to see how each photo could fit within the page whether it was portrait or landscape. It was also fun to see if I could push the boundaries of a photo by changing the scale and ratio of the frame and zooming in or out.
Perfect Binding
The final step of the process in creating this piece was printing the pages, trimming the edges and using the perfect binding technique to bind the book together.
