After having my concerns that it wouldn't be appropriate or skilled enough to do the animal album art pun zine I set to work on making and construction of the images.
Working in monochrome was a concern because of the sometimes colourful nature of the albums but actually became an interesting exercise in trying to balance an image through values. Doing it this way has made me more considerate of coloured images and their values too.
Type is not something I'm familiar with or particularly skilled with so I stuck to what I know with Futura font. The square format of the images was difficult to place on a rectangular page but also gave me some freedom to have combinations of images on a page or vary the layout to hopefully give the book a more varied pace and interesting look. I'm wondering if the non-ruler-drawn edges add to the charm or make it look messy. I'd like to think the former.
After realising that almost all of the albums were set in the 80s or 00s I decided that this could work as a miniature narrrative, with interluding pages suggesting the progression of time between two significant periods. It also reminded me of the interesting debate of if album art is relevant any more in a time of tiny ipod screens, although I didn't really touch on that in the zine. I quite like the first image, and although the perspective is a little wonky I think it suits the style (not entirely an excuse however).
The second image is simple and I noticed once printed that because the grey shape is so big it is a little distracting to the eye compared to its opposing page. A double spread interlude would have been nice to avoid this / give more of a sense of story or just a break to the pace of the book but due to economical reasons (only 12 pages) I decided not to sacrifice more of the puns (the main point of the book) for that)
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