BiBi Card Design Rationale

Out of all of the projects, the BiBi Card was the most stressful. This project was a BiBi card on a Cosmopolitan magazine October 2009 issue.

• One of the big problems that I had was on Side 2, I had to draw all of the lines. It was annoying! I had to zoom in to 200% and draw 22 big lines and 30 little lines. I just copied one of each and pasted them into the next pattern that was on the card. I hated doing it so much, but the lines were important to put on the card.

Another problem I had was getting the shadow behind the Cosmopolitan picture with Quark. At first, I uploaded the picture like I did with the Nightwish poster. However, when I tried to use the shadow, I kept shadowing the entire card. Instead, I dragged in the picture from the desktop right into Quark. I was then able to get the shadow just behind the picture alone.

• Out of the three cards that I did, I believe that the one I did in InDesign was the easiest. I got all of the things that I wanted onto the card with no problems. However, when I printed out the cards, I prefered the look of the Quark version over the look of the InDesign version because the InDesign version had a neon yellow background and I liked the basic yellow background on the Quark version better.

I do not know why the Quark Side 2 Card is smaller than the other Sides on the Blog, but I can assure you that they are all the same size: 5 inches long and 3 1/2 inches wide.

• If I did anything differently, I would put the boxes in the Quark Version of Side 1 Card. I accidently forgot to put them in when I placed them on my blog.