My final project idea

Over the past few days, I have been looking at all the ideas that I have been thinking about so far, and I have decided to go with choosing that of my first idea, which is all about creating a small A5 zine that highlights british wildlife, in my own illustrative style.

I would also like to include animals that are also considered vermin, such rats, alongside classic british staples, like Swans etc.
I want to include animals like Rats, as I feel that they are often brushed aside by society, even though they have a purpose and function.

I love working with the imagery of animals and nature, so this idea would compliment my illustrative skills, and allow to develop them further.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Rock_Pigeon_(Columba_livia)_in_Iași.JPG < image reference at this link.

http://www.pantherpestcontrol.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/street-rat.jpg < image reference at this link.

I have decided to choose this particular idea, because I like the idea of making a small zine, as I know for a fact that there will be a big market for me.

I came across many shops that sold zines in Berlin.

I want my zine to be of a reasonable size, of course not an anthology consisting of several hundred pages, as this would be both incredibly time consuming, as well as not being cost effective.
I aim for my zine to be around 20-30 pages long perhaps, however this of course depends on the choices of animals that I make, which I may go into in another blog.

I want to aim to get my idea into production using the print room that is situated downstairs, as I want to take a few copies with me to London to hopefully sell, of course at a reasonable price.
I really enjoyed the process and practise of screen-printing in the past, so I really want to try this method again, if possible.

One of my first screen-printed pieces of art.

One thing that I need to take into account, is my target audience/market.
I would like the idea of making my zine appeal to as many people as possible, so that I don't restrict myself within the market.
In the past I have been very engaged with the children's market, however I would like to broaden my genre for this particular zine.

My small children's oriented book that I created during module two.

There are many different examples of publications that can be aimed at both of these large markets, for instance with the Hildafolk series of books.

http://www.nobrow.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/hil_slide05.jpg < image reference at this link.

When I went to Gosh comics in London to get my copy of Hilda signed, a large percentage of the people waiting in line were adults, including myself.
Hildafolk is published by Flying Eye Books, which is a derivative of Nobrow Press, specialised in the area of producing children's books.
The success of Hildafolk, as well as other examples, gives me some form of inspiration, and assurance that my idea could work out, and perhaps be commercially viable, making me a bit of money on the side.

In the coming blogs, I will be looking  more into my final idea, exploring in depth and detail of how I can manage to pull this idea off successfully.









Thomas.