Size: A5 (148 × 210mm)
Cover: 4pp, 300gsm Silk with Gloss Lamination
Inside pages: 24pp, 130gsm Silk
Printing: Full colour throughout (CMYK)
Binding: Staple bound (saddle stitched)
Could the cover of a photography zine about the Super Bowl be anything other than high gloss? No. And it isn't. Miriam Strong's A5 zine of the sights and scenes around Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans arrives with a gloss laminated cover that catches the light exactly as the event itself does — loud, vivid, unashamed. A tattooed Eagles fan in a football helmet and Mardi Gras beads fills the frame. You know immediately what you're holding and what kind of world you're about to enter.
Super Bowl LIX Zine is a mini photo journal of the sights and scenes around the 2025 Super Bowl in New Orleans — an affectionate document of the atmosphere and characters that descend on a host city for game weekend. Miriam Strong shot the project as a personal documentary work, capturing the fans, the streets and the quiet moments between the spectacle. Our photography zine printing service handles projects like this beautifully.
The cover choice is precisely right. 300gsm silk with gloss lamination gives sharp, saturated photography — the Eagles green and cream reads with the vividness the image needs — and the gloss surface amplifies the event's energy rather than softening it.
Inside, 130gsm silk handles the full spectrum of New Orleans colour. The red of the Chiefs jerseys, the blue midday sky, the warm amber of indoor portrait shots — silk at this weight gives clean, rich results. It feels substantial in hand and lies flat when open.
The cover is direct and unapologetic — a single full-frame portrait with white type across the middle. No fussing with masthead hierarchy. The image earns the cover and is given the whole page to do it.
Inside, the photography rules. The cigar-smoker spread, where the city rises behind him, has real cinematic weight. The Chiefs jersey spread — both figures shot from behind, the red and gold filling the frame — is the image our team described as leaping off the page and tackling the reader's retinas. It does exactly that.
Miriam's files had a technical issue — bleed extending from full-page images onto the opposite page. Rather than sending back a report and waiting, Harriet fixed it in-house and returned the corrected PDF. One email, one attachment, no delay. That kind of proactive file-checking is standard at Ex Why Zed. See our file set-up guide for stapled booklets for full-bleed spread guidance.
Gloss lamination is the only choice for high-energy sports photography. If your subject is loud, vivid and physical, your cover needs to be too.
Silk inside pages handle saturated sports colours well. 130gsm silk reproduces the red of Chiefs jerseys and the New Orleans street palette with the intensity the photography deserves.
A5 is the right format for an event photo keepsake. Small enough to be portable, large enough to give the photography room.
Full-bleed photography needs correct bleed on every affected page. Bleeds extending from full-page images onto adjacent pages are a common issue. Check your spreads carefully before sending files.
