How Safe? Hours Typo

On my How Safe? hours I accidentally put 302 hours, and I meant 3.2 hours!

Midterm Portfolio

The Red Barn Poster was one of the earlier designs we had to do for class. I always have trouble coming up with a concept at first, it was very frustrating. I think I usually find my ideas from listening to music and I would hear a nice line of lyrics and change it up a bit and use it as a tagline. I got this tagline from "Express Yourself" by Madonna. Then I needed some kind of visual item, so I started researching and googling random things online. I finally looked up butterflies and found a picture and traced it in illustrator. This was only in black and white, so to make it less bland, I made some of the text lighter and gray. I really like how this poster turned out, because I feel like it has great movement in it. I think that the butterflies is an attention getter and there's just the right amount of information on it looking too busy.
We were given 5 hours and I used 4.5 hours!

The Jazz Poster. Again I got the tagline by listening to "Sway to the Rhythm of Love" by the Plain White Ts, then I just changed up the lyrics a little bit by putting in "some rhythm and blues". I came across this awesome picture of a saxophone made up of smaller saxophones, guitars, other instruments, and people. I thought it was a great picture to go with my concept, because there's movement in it and the people look like they are "swaying". This was a two color poster. The background was originally gray, then Rusty told me to change it to blue. So I had the picture that I recreated in Illustrator and text on the layout and the background was a problem, because it looked very boring, so I decided to fill it with words and started googling jazzy song titles and found "From the Soul" and "Feeling Good". I italicized them to go with the theme of movement. I like the way that this poster turned out, I think the picture is intriguing and would grab people's attention and there's just the right amount of information on it.

We were given 5 hours and I used 4.8 hours!

How Safe? Magazine Spread. I came across this picture on google when I was researching for pictures when I was brainstorming ideas for my sketches. I just thought this picture was so clever with an apple being sewn, really relates to how people can tamper with food and consumers would never know which was what I got from the text. Rusty told me to curve the text around the apple and put the text box next to the apple, which I really like. I think it does look more visually pleasing. I definitely liked working on this spread more than "The Secret to Feeling Full" magazine layout, because there is less text. It sucked making all of the text fit together and not have any orphans and widows. Those were annoying! But I think this layout turned out well. I like the colors!

We were given 8 hours and I used 302 hours.

Herpetology Poster...well the first design with the tortoise and the hare was a bust. So big thanks goes out to Shelby for showing me this picture on the National Geographic website, because  it's awesome. The tagline of "Experience Beauty in a Whole New Light" just popped into my head, and I was having so much trouble with finding a picture online, then Shelby came to the rescue! Making the text visible on this background was difficult, because most colors I tried would not show up well. Rusty had me dim one of the lights on the bottom, so the world "light" can be read easily. I really like the way this turned out, I think people would look at it, because the picture looks funny with a frog eating a christmas light. It looks pretty cool and unusual, which is usually what catches people's attention, right? 

We were given 6 hours and I used 4.3 hours.

Native American Heritage Month Poster Series. I wanted to do an idea with spirit animals, because that has always fascinated me and it's the first thing that pops into my mind with the mention of Native Americans. So it's get to know your spirit animal then put a picture of an animal and add a description of it, then list the events is basically my whole layout design. I had trouble find good black and white pictures of animals to use. I had a bee for one of my layouts and Rusty did not like it so I changed it to an alligator. It was difficult trying to making all the animals fit the page well and be the same size. Getting the text to layout and look good was difficult, it was originally split into two columns and had three events on one side and two on the other, but I finally split them up into five columns and have one event in each column and I think this way looks so much better. I really like the dark red and black together. This was a two color poster. I'm happy with the way these posters turned out, I think they bring out a strong message and people would be able to get the message and pay attention.

We were given 6 hours and I used 8 hours. Whoops!!