New cover for "Sous une nouvelle direction" and "Under New Management"
"Sous une nouvelle direction" is one of our only zines about prison that is in french. However, the cover is a black and white full bleed photo with not very legible text overlayed on top. I think it would be worth making a better cover for this one.
The zine was originally published in english. Thee are photos online of this version but even after contacting the authors I haven't been able to track down a PDF. Based on the photo of the english version, it looks like the cover design works somewhat better when the background image is done in a lighter color rather than in grey. Still full bleed though.
The same text was also combined with the transcript of an interview with the authors and published as an english zine with an American audience in mind (and with a different cover design than the original): https://itsgoingdown.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/canprison.pdf
We don't currently have an english version of the original zine available. I'd prefer to avoid using the IGD one as-is, because of how much it is framed for an american audience (the title is "our neighbors to the north"). Fortunately, most of that framing is on the cover pages, if we made a new cover for the french then we could also do a matching one for the english and then use it to replace the cover of the IGD version and keep their guts.
It is also possible that the imagery of the IGD version (an aerial view of a canadian prison on fire?) could be used as the inspiration for our new cover...