Papergirl Leeds Zine

I've decided that the best idea for a final piece for Visual Language will be a zine. I decided this as this is a public event, I need to be thinking about reaching as many people as possible. I can make many copies of the zine, rather than just a few books. Plus I want the piece to be interactive, participatory and analogue (just like Papergirl is).

However, this may impact on whether I can submit work for the International Book Fair (pretty sure I can put in zines). In any case, there's always London Zine Symposium on April 17th 2011.

The Papergirl Leeds zine will be called "Papergirl Leeds - Creating a Creative Community (on 2 wheels??!? maybe)". It will be 20 pages long. I've worked out what I think the zine needs to contain and asked some friends what they think too. Obviously, it needs to be written as if they've never heard of Papergirl Leeds. It is educational. It is informative. It especially needs to be something exciting and a good read.

The layout:

1. front cover illustration, title.
2. contents
3. What is Papergirl Leeds?
4. History of Papergirl (Berlin)
5. continued
6. Our Vision - creating a creative community.
7. continued
8. Papergirl World (other cities) with a map and pointers
9. continued
10. Printables - poster with tabs and "bike tags" to put in people's spokes. To get people involved and spreading the word. 
11. continued
12. Papergirl Manchester Interview with Janice (already asked - said yes!)
13. continued
14. cycling - law and council info, new routes, policies etc
15. continued
16. Other creative community events/ spaces
17. continued
18. Leeds bike repair shops/ workshops etc
19. contact / website / blog
20. back illustration

Basically, all content is on double page spreads except the first and last 3 pages. The printables are in the centre so that they can be pulled out. Although I may rethink this so that there is nothing on the back of the printables (unless they state that they are for copying instead of pulling out). Either way, it's up to the person that gets the zine how they interact with it. I just need to try and make sure it happens.

I would like to screen print the cover if I have time, so I would need to either, leave a blank page or glue the first and last page (1 and 20) to the screen-printed cover.

I have a feeling that I am going to have to be more rational in my zine plans. We will see.