This shows you how to make a rough mock up of your zine before making the complete original. This will help with your thinking process as well as keep you from making layout mistakes.

1. Step 1: Laying Out Your Zine
Creating your storyboard was Step 0.

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The easiest way is to make a mock-
up using blank sheets of paper.
Then number the pieces of paper
and take the zine apart again. You
will then have a layout for your
own zine.

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http://aisling.net/category/paper/zines/
Sample Standard Zine Layouts

4. Make a 16 page zine using one
piece of folded paper.
Cut on the solid lines and fold on
the dotted lines.
One staple should be enough.

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In a standard half-size zine, you will have 4 pages per sheet of paper,
including the cover and the back.

6. Step 2: Create all the artwork
1. Use your mock-up as a guide to know where to place which pages
for your zine.
2. Review all the “rules” from last week!
3. Test your artwork to see how it looks when it is copied at regular
intervals throughout this process. You do not want to be caught at
the end with something that looks good in the original, but not
when copied!

7. Step 3: Make Copies of Your Zine
1. Make sure pages line up the way you had planned. Make
adjustments to the copies accordingly.
2. Trim any extra white around the edges of your copies (and make
sure they still line up.
3. After you have done these tests, make five copies of your zine!

8. Step 4: Figure Out How You Will
Bind Your Zine
1. Staples (neatly, directly on the fold)
2. Sewn binding
a. Pamphlet
b. Side stitch
c. Japanese side stitch
d. Other ?
3. Folded –no binding (with out without cutting) to fit with
assignment, you would still need to attach at least two large
pieces of paper together.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcuG-CJ2Zc8
Sewn Bindings

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Be sure to use big
enough paper that you
have a way of copying
and adapt it to this
assignment!
Images by http://www.mcld.co.uk/

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