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Editorial
Paper Trail
A zine grid that holds twenty contributor styles without flattening them.
- Client
- Paper Trail Zine
- Year
- 2024
- Role
- Editorial Design, Print Production
- Category
- Editorial
Overview
A risograph zine on independent publishing, with a rotating cast of around twenty contributors per issue, each submitting work in a completely different visual register. Previous issues had read as a pile rather than a publication.
Approach
A four-column modular grid with deliberately loose rules: contributors can occupy any rectangle of modules they like, but the gutters, the folio position, and the two-spot-colour limit are fixed. The constraint sits in the structure, not the style.
Outcome
Issues 07 through 11 ran on the grid. Contributor satisfaction — they surveyed it — went up, which is unusual for a project that adds constraints.
Selected artwork — 2 pieces · click to zoom
Filed under
EditorialRisographGrid Systems