Publication Inspiration - The Vagina Guide - External Collaboration Brief

I began looking at more publications and thinking about how to make the Vagina Guide playful and exciting. I wanted to use a variety of stocks and different layers as the publications show below. I liked the idea of placing a spread in the centre of the publication at a different angle to create a tactile and unusual experience for the reader. I also like the idea of having text the runs from the centre spread to the outer spread - this again encourages engagement with the reader. By having a beautiful publication about vaginas it will remind women that their vaginas are beautiful, and are something to talk about and be proud of. The design needs to be contemporary and fashionable to ensure that the teenagers reading it respect it.

Rubbish FAMzine was written by Singapore's Lim family and is a team effort of parents Pann and Claire and their two children Ren and Aira who are 15 and 12. The style of the publication is edited in a way where the children's vibrant and playful ideas are made real by the parents. 'Based on the parents’ love of eighties music the issue can loosely be defined as coming in three parts. The magazine opens with a celebration of the sleeves and graphics of the eighties era, shot in full soft-focus glory reminiscent of the recent Buffalo Zine food still lives. Information is overlaid (literally) on the full-bleed images through bright, hand-applied stickers that recall those applied to record sleeves – the vital marketing info slapped across the artful designs of the creative teams.' Although the design is very much 80s based, I though it was an interesting style and technique which involved refining the ideas of teenagers in a mature and well constructed way. The bright colours, variety of stocks, paper clips and stickers are all things I could consider for the publication to make it more engaging. Although, for 'The Vagina Guide' the audience will be older and therefore need a slightly more mature approach. The content is also a little more serious and therefore should not have quite the same level of playfulness.