When I’m making an issue, I’ll use Illustrator to knock up little spot illustrations, custom titles, holding shapes, borders and other stuff like that. Photoshop is mainly used for prepping all photos that I source for print, making them a little tastier, and occasionally dropping in some vector type into a photo (eg. a killer whale jumping out of the letter A). In Design is like the big wok you through everything together in, and desperatly try and make a decent meal out of the ingredients. tip: if type is any bigger than 50 pt on a page, create outlines and kern it manually, most fonts are retarded when it comes to spacing, and you’ll notice the difference.

So this is my ‘scratchpad’ so far for issue 5, pretty messy but you get the idea.

Front magazine(NSFW) is the ‘funniest and sexiest’ magazine on earth. Looks to be the pinnacle of the lads mag dynasty/empire/kingdom, which was born somewhere between Birmingham and Brixton. From an *cough* objective view, they seem to have a really distinct editorial style, with lot’s of playful and colourful type, retro fonts and illustrations that boost the content. You can’t buy it here so I guess you’ve gotta settle with Zoo.