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.

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Six Flags Brochure

Six Flags Brochure Design Rationale

My brochure is based on the amusement park Six Flags New England.

What I liked most about my brochure were the colors and fonts that I used. The background colors I used were yellow and light bue because they were bright and cheery for the amusement park. I used a gradient feather tool on both colors so that when they joined together, there would be white in the middle. For the fonts, I used "Futura" size 36 for the headings and "Hobo Std" size 18 for the subtext. I wanted the readers to feel a sense of fun when they read the brochure because Six Flags is a fun place to go to.

• What I found most difficult about my brochure was knowing what to use as information. I knew for certain what to do with the cover and what to say about each of the different activities within the park. However, I did not know what to do for the remaning two panels. After much thinking, I settled with a list of summere events on one panel and a basic map on the other panel. I was contemplating whether to actually list the directions with the map, but I found out that there were many ways to get to Six Flags New England and there would not be enough room to list them all.

For the pictures used in the brochure, I sized them to fit in the panels and rotated them to give the picture an edge. If necessary, I took the pictures in Photoshop first and edited them with the magic eraser or size change before I placed them onto the brochure. I also applied a shadow technique on all of the pictures I used to make them stand out to the readers.

• The problem I encountered the most was finidng the right font for the brochure. At first I used "Palacino" for the headings and "Myriad Pro" for the subtext. However, I did not like the result of it, and all together, the brochure did not flow well with the fonts. I looked around the different fonts until I found the fonts that that I used ("Futura" and "Hobo Std").

Nightwish Concert Poster

Concert Poster Design Rationale

For my poster, I did it on the band Nightwish.

What I liked most about my poster was that my image was large and blended with the background. I used Photoshop to drag my picture in and used the magic eraser to get rid everything except the band. Although there are a few spots that disappeared on the band members, I think the picture turned out good.

• However, I do not think this poster was the best assignment that I did. I thought the background was boring and did not stand out. Yes, my background is colorful and shows the styles of black and purple, but nothing stood out on the poster. I could not find a wayto make my poster stand out.

What I found difficult was the placement. I decided to use a "Z" style, but at first, everything ended up in the middle. Then I moved some things around, but I was told that some of my placements should stand out more and the important information should be at the top. In the end, I obtained a "Z" style format for my poster starting with the name of the band and ending with ticket information.

• Overall, this is not the best assignment that I had done. I am upset with the background, the lack of more than two colors, and the sight of more words than pictures, There are many things that I wish I could have done, but I did not have the time to do it and I do not know what else I could have done.