PRINT PROJECT-ALCATRAZ BEACH CLUB

For this project we had to create a small magazine/zine/lookbook for instore or online purposes. I chose the brand Alcatraz Beach Club, a small clothing company with a simple aesthetic with a lot meaning behind it. For my zine I looked a old punk magazines such as SNIFFIN GLUE and LOADED to get inspiration for layouts and graphics. My aim was to include pictures of the clothing but not make it about the clothes, more so about the image and brand I was attempting to portray.

These were my moodboards for the project, I was looking at making it very grungy and punky whilst still maintaining the companys clean cut ideas. To do this i thought of contrasting the punk graphics that had a xerography feel with the clean cut skyscrapers of the city. I got in contact with Adam who owns the brand and he gave me the green light to create it. Below are all the pages of the zine, due to the difficulty of laying out photos on blogger (which i think is an awful platform to be using for this course!) you can't clearly see each double page spread, but theres 16 images, 8 double page spreads that would make up a zine if you go to http://www.flipsnack.com/OlieThomas/abc.html you can view the virtual booklet. bye