Studio Brief 03 - Life's a Pitch - Research

There are many publishing house all over the word specialising in different areas, and everyone has there own styles and its interesting to see how there is so much variety in such a saturated market. As we are creating a collective where the aim is to produce zines that promote young designers, photographers, illustrators from around our area we wanted to see what else people were doing and if anyone was has similar ideas to us and see how they have created their brand. 

Pool Publishing

What I am trying to get from my research is to find out how other collectives work and where the gap in the market would be for Blep. I feel that we have identified a gap in the market as looking at Pool the publications that they produce seem to be for them as they are sold through their shop, with Blep we just want to act as the makers if someone has come to us with the idea we want people to know that it is very much the creatives idea. Unless it is a publication that we have come up with the concept for, in this case it would have a similar work flow. 

But it is clear from looking at Pool that you need a good visual identity for people to understand what you're about and the style of work that we want to put out otherwise we won't ever get the chance to produce work for the right people. So a string visual identify is key in the publishing industry. 

Actual Source

Actual Source is a full service creative studio in addition to the studio, Actual Source is a multi-format publisher, brand, and retail store that collaborates with contemporary artists, designers, and writers to publish limited edition books. 

All of the work is different, they produce work with a variety of styles which helps to create a great concept. No two books are the same, which is a very good way to work as people can see how diverse the work can be which means you're not limited when doing something or a client and you can work with anyone in this case. 

Slanted 

Slanted Publishers is an independent publishing house. They are publishing the award-winning print magazine Slanted, which is covering international design and culture twice a year with a biannual print publication. Their current series showcases different cites from around the world showing the contemporary design scene of each city in a really unique style.