Hannah Sewell is researching and planning the design of a fanzine about hip hop music and fashion. She has created mood boards and flat plans to visualize the layout of the front cover and article pages. For the front cover, she wants to feature a black and white photo of a man with modern design elements incorporated through cropping and color. For the article pages, she plans to cut up her written piece and collage it with related images to fit within distinct borders on each page. Hannah has also explored different hip hop inspired fonts to use for the title and article text to achieve the style she wants for her fanzine.

1. Fanzine Research
Hannah Sewell
http://5guysmusicandfries.tumblr.com

4. For the Front cover
The second mood board is the plan that I’m hoping to achieve through images, I’ve started to like putting the
same images in opposite positions as it gives a modern, two way thinking kind of image. I like the black and
white image of the man, this will work well with my audience and hip-hop style and it’s a black dominant
music type. The fact that he is plain with only his emotion to show will really work with technical skills that
will go around it, like cropping sections and changing the colour and bringing objects on top of it. The
images around the black and white image are methods that I would like to put into that image, the shaking
objects on the bottom left is the setting I’d like to put on one side of the man. The colour on the top left will
be incorporated by the bright colours that I want to bring out my cropping each section of the other man
which is on the picture on the bottom left. The different drawings will be put randomly around the image to
give it it’s character and it already has hip-hop symbols that will help the audience to connect with the overall
design. I’m trying to get a sense of the old fashioned hip-hop that I’m going to talk about in the article and
also bring in a lot of modern elements so it helps the audience to understand what hip-hop music is like
today. I have thought of putting Tupac Shakur as one of the faces on the front cover because it contrasts the
two kind of characters. The guy on the left is a new coming artist while Tupac was legendary in the 1990’s so
by having a legend next to someone that is new will help bring out the culture of what the fanzine has to
offer. For the title I need to research many hip-hop fonts that they would use in a magazine layout but also on
a website to see what the audience likes to see. I have found an image that would be great for my layout. By
having plain dark large font on the top it will grab attention and then transfer you to the main image which is
shown on the top middle on the slide above. The will mainly show the modern element of magazine layout
than anything else.
http://5guysmusicandfries.tumblr.com
Images used for front cover are from this URL

7. For Article page
My aim for both pages is that there will be a distinctive white border for each page so the same area will be
full with images and information. Each area will be the same size so that it’s similar and distinctive, this will
have the modern edge that I want from the fanzine. One main method that I’m going to use to create the
the fanzine article page is to print out my article and cut it up into sections and only bring out the most
important information, once I’ve done that then I will stick it on the right place so that it produces the right
layout. I will take an image of the overall look and put it onto a PowerPoint. This will hopefully produce a
page with a lot of different textures and colours, the main image on the slide above is what I’m trying to
create. Each picture symbolises what will be in the article layout, there will be a urban look, fashion image
from the 1980’s, a symbol from a human emotion which will help bring a message to the piece. Then finally
graffiti which is massive in Hip-hop culture and will also go well with my article. There will only be one page
of the article so it will be difficult to fit everything in but on Indesign it will help to fit everything in the right
place. The article is mainly about fashion so it’s important to have that element but also difference culture
aspects around that time like poverty, music and life. I’m hoping to find some images that are hand drawn
so that you get the normal images and then drawings so that there is a variety to look at, by involving
different symbols and colours it will help bring depth to the article also.

9. For the main title of the fanzine I was thinking about having just one main bold title but after researching fanzines like
http://www.britishhiphop.co.uk/ I’ve found that they use the Hip Hop font for the main title and then everything else is in a San Serif
font. This helped me to pick out fonts that suited the Hip Hop theme and the different element of culture that’s involved with the font
like graffiti which is shown on . . The fonts that I’ve chosen that link with Hip Hop are:
These fonts were chosen from DaFont.com and I chose these because they would just be on there own at the top of the page and by
having font that so noticeable and link with the audience so well, will help to make the fanzine look unique and in a Hip Hop
subculture. I think all of the Hip Hop fonts will work really well with my idea because they hold there own look, it will be when I create
the front cover that will help me to chose which one will go perfectly with the picture and effects. My favorite at the moment because
of the sizes and how clear they look is the ‘New’ font, this is because it takes a lot of space which I want as it goes along the top and it
looks like each letter was draw on because they are just black lines. This will automatically have a mixture of modern and old
fashioned Hip Hop features that the audience will like.
I chose to also try out large black bold fonts because after researching fashion fanzine magazines I found that nothing get’s an
audience attention more than a big bold title. This lets the audience know straight away about what the magazine is about. An
example of a art/music/fashion fanzine is ‘Loud and Quiet’ this magazine had a big bold title which looks good and simple and looks
professional straight away. This element will help to make my fanzine magazine new and different for the Hip Hop audience. The
examples of the bold font that I chose are:
I have chosen these fonts because they are very modern looking, they are professional and the Couture especially has the fashion
look that I’m wanting as this fanzine is mostly based on fashion alone. My favourite font for the front cover (if I pick it) would be the
‘Bebas Neue’ font, this was due to the thickness of each letter and how it stands out when being in a 48 size font. It is very clear to
read even from size 20 you can see each letter and what it has to say which is important. I am thinking of having a completely black
and white colour theme so that the simple title will link well in the image and it’s effects. By having that as the main theme I’m
hoping to put a bit of colour in the image so that it catches some attention towards the image.

10. Picking name for Fanzine Highway
City Highway
Urban Ice
Crowded
Hip Hop Fashion
The Lights

11. The font that goes well with the title is City Highway with the ‘a dripping marker’ (top one of the
section). I like this because of how it looks like it has been sprayed onto the page, it links with the fact
of how graffiti is a hobby that happens within a urban city or highway. The font style and words work
perfectly together which will help to portray the Hip Hop theme towards my fanzine magazine. The
second favourite font and word that I like is Hip Hop Fashion in the ‘Bombing’ font, this looks like it
suits the hip hop theme but also has a quirky look that would suit old school Hip Hop clothing. The
lights also suits that font because it looks like it was purposefully drawn on just for the fanzine. I’m
hoping to having a look of art and drawing the name and also pictures throughout my article and front
page. These different fonts have there own story but the Hip Hop fonts really stand out and will suit
my fanzine the most instead of original bold font which I have used often enough.

12. Font for the Fanzine article
I think for making the fanzine as quirky and new as possible I have chosen the soul handwriting
font. This font is bolder than the rest, it really sticks out for it’s italics and the fact that it looks hand
written which after researching fanzines I have found that handwritten work really makes your
fanzine stand out compared to competition. When looking at the sentences from my article the
‘Soul Handwriting’ also looks the best because it’s automatically larger and looking complicated
which is good to make your fanzine look more unique instead of having a boring font e.g. Arial.
Another font that I will try and use is the ‘Richard Murray’ font, I like this one because of how old
fashioned and traditional it looks, it doesn’t have anything to do with Hip Hop but it gives an
audience a variety of different themes and also takes the reader back to old school Hip Hop which
is involved in a lot of my article.

13. Title
Image that’s designed through
Photoshop
Words e.g. old
school fashion
Flat plan 1 for front page

14. IMAGES THE SAME
BUT PUT IN OPPOSITE
POSITIONS TO EACH
OTHER AND EDITED
Title
Flat Plan 2 for Front Cover

15. Grey part is a collage of
hip hop images
Ripped out
article
Ripped out article
White border on every image
Flat Plan 1 for article page

16. Flat Plan 1 for article page
Ripped out
drawing of an
image
Article ripped out
Article ripped out
Article ripped out
collage
White border and title at the top