Final Blog Post

This class was a good base class for beginning graphic design majors and other majors looking to learn a few things about design. Some of the things that were taught in class I already learned from either the fundamentals of printing processes class last year or from my high school junior year graphic design class. The most interesting project in my opinion was the alternative representation project. It was interesting finding new ways to represent a typeface by not simply typing it out. I think that I have learned that every project needs tweaking even when thought to be completed. I really enjoyed working on the zine. My particular subject for my zine I personally enjoyed which made the project more fun. Along with that, I would like to make more projects like that one since I am leaning toward working in magazines when I graduate and the zine was a good base project to start from.

Zine

I've made a few more decisions regarding my zine. I'll be working on an 8.5X11 page size but when I print it will be on a 12X12. I'll be using handwritten text along with color to highlight key words. I'll have little bits of 3D pieces throughout the book, like a 'Kalteen Bar'.

Zine Graphics

So I've collected some images that I might put into my zine.

I've also got examples of the style of which I'll be modeling my pages after. I edited the images a little so they're a little more appropriate.

I think for my text I'll be using hand-written type. I haven't figured out a page size yet because I want to get the cover for the book first and then figure out the paper to fit it. I also haven't decided what type of paper I'll be using, whether it's card stock, scrapbook paper, or just regular print paper. For the book cover, I'm downloading a font to match closely to the original. I also found a website with stills from the movie Mean Girls, so I'll be using that for some of my images.

Zine Topic

For my zine, I'm torn between two topics that are centered around the movie Mean Girls. Either "How to destroy the plastics" or "How to be plastic". I'm going to center the design of my zine around the 'Burn Book'.

Infographic Design

Here is the final product.

Here is the re-done final product.

Infograph Idea

I think for my infograph, I'm going to do how many times people get on Facebook in during the day and whether or not it's sunny or rainy/cloudy.

Infographics

Here are some infographs that I found interesting.

They all came from Cool Infographics Blog.

Wacom Tablet

This is one of my scanned in images that was colored in in Photoshop on the Wacom Tablet.

Illustrations/Edited Photos

Here are some pictures that feature things I'd like to learn how to do.

The above 4 images were taken from this link. http://alicexz.deviantart.com/gallery/

The above 2 were taken from deviantart.com.

Final Poster

This is my final design for the poster project.

This is my final design, redone.

PSA Poster Design Ideas

So for the poster design, I decided to do the Alpha Phi Foundation for Women's Cardiac Care. So I went on Google and looked up a few pictures and also drew some poster ideas. And here's some of what I got. Also, I will be going to the library later this week to look at some books. I'm also considering scanning in some textures like red velvet or something.

Text Project

This is my alternative representation text project.

Ideas for my first name.

Ideas for my last name.

Here is a link for each letter.

Final Piece