Project 9: Portfolio


Project Corrections / Time Spent: I spent two hours going through each project and fine tuning things that either needed better alignment or spacing. I also cleaned up tangents I found in my event ad. I spend most of the fine tuning in my event ad. I am not too familiar with word and I was trying to get it to eliminate part of the background that I hadn’t been able to before. Because I couldn’t remove it before, I had tried to cover it up with a small sport of white, but instead that made the problem worse. So I remover that white spot and played around with word until I was able to get it the way I wanted it. I also tried to fix some of my typography in my montage project. I wasn’t that excited about how it turned out, even though it has some nice texture to it. I attempted different placements for the text, but I ultimately ended up putting it back in a similar fashion. Sometimes I guess you don’t realize you already have the best solution until you try all the wrong ones.

Message: I want communicate the happiness and joy that I get from designing.

Audience: Potential clients and employers as well as anyone that loves design.

Top Thing Learned: Media skills and making videos.

Future application of Visual Media: I plan on continuing designing for future classes an eventually clients.

Color scheme and color names: Primary, Red, Yellow,  Blue

Title Font Name & Category:  – Merry, Decorative

Copy Font Name & Category: Gill Sans MT, San Serif

Images used: All design elements were personally made

 

 

Project 8: Brochure

by: Sara Shaw

P8-SaraShaw-front

front

P8-SaraShaw-inside

inside

P8-SaraShaw-back

back

Description:
A two sided brochure including a logo, body copy, and multiple images using text wrap and a clipped image.

Process (Programs, Tools, Skills): I started this project by determining what my company was and to whom the brochure was intended for. After that, I created my penguin logo in Adobe Illustrator, and brought him into Adobe Indesign where I created my brochure. I selected two different font styles for the body copy, heading, and subheadings. I then created small illustrations back in Illustrator that added an interesting element in the offset design. I brought in photos that I obtained from morguefile.com that provides free for use without attribution photographs and edited them in Adobe Photoshop. I also used one personal photo from time spent in Chile. With one of the photos, I clipped out the background and text wrapped the image so that the text around it would move itself around the image. I mildly used this technique because it didn’t flow well with the rest of the design, but it was a requirement for this project. After I brought in my own written body copy, I made more minor changes that had been suggested by critiques for the overall design.

Programs/Tools Used: Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Photoshop

Message: To advertise a fun and adventurous trip to Chile.

Audience: Travelers, those who are from Chile living in the United States, or those who want to visit there.

Top Thing Learned: I learned how to clip an image and text wrap it as well.

Color scheme and color names: Analogous,  brick, orange, gold

Title Font Name & Category: Gill Sans MT / Sans serif

Copy Font Name & Category: Adobe Garamond Pro / Old Style

Word count: 289

Thumbnails of Images used:

ChilePhoto1ChilePhoto2ChilePhoto3ChilePhoto4ChilePhoto5Chile2

Sources (Links to images on original websites):

1. Backets: http://mrg.bz/LqFEKu

2. Baskets 2: http://mrg.bz/gC52iS

3. Street: http://mrg.bz/seRLOd

4. Ocean: http://mrg.bz/wV8qpA

5. Food: http://mrg.bz/euO7or

6. Chilean Flag: Personal Photo