Abigail Good

The second week of Freedom Magazine went a lot smoother. Since I had the photos from Ava, I finished my front cover. I think that the cover gives off exactly the vibe that I wanted: relaxed and simple. Aside from physical designing, I began to put some content together. I began with my introduction. Since the cover is so minimalistic in the type department, I wrote an intro about what the goal of the magazine is supposed to be and where my inspiration came from. This part was very emotional for me, but overall I am very pleased with how my magazine is coming together. Next week I hope to have at least one article completed and maybe any info

The first week of my senior project was spent sorting all my thoughts. I finally developed a rough sketch of all that I wanted to do. I wanted to create a magazine, called Freedom Magazine, that was designed and written by myself. The goal of this magazine is on mental health, and everything surrounding that topic. I struggled with what I wanted to do but I found some inspiration and decided on this topic which holds dear to my heart, plus I get to combine it with what I love: design. After I felt confident in my concept. I started with the front cover. I decided on a hand written font that say "Freedom" and a very sleek sans-serif font that says "Magazine" underneath. I found a stalk photo that I began to manipulate. I found out that I really just wanted a simple magazine front that focused on one image that had a very easy appeal on the eyes. Over Spring Break I had a photo shoot with Ava Yerkes to use for my cover. I got some great shots. Here are my favorites ...

Wow. I am so happy with my portfolio. I think that is sleek and really shows my personality, and my aesthetic as a designer.  am really proud of how much I have learned in web design this semester. I know I am a bit off track, but I feel accomplished. My portfolio is not done by any means. I have a few things left on my to do list. I would like to like my O.P.E.N website to my portfolio along with my TV25 website. I also completely forgot to include my manny's Marbles site, which I think could add a lot to my site. I also need to delete/add links to the social media buttons after the contact page. I would say that I am very close to the finish line though. Overall things that I struggled with in this project is the header picture, the colors, and the portfolio photos. The header image took a combination of all of the adobe programs, and some assistance from Ava's photography skills. I needed an image that had a white background. So I set out into the hallway to take som...

TV25 Experience So for the past while we have been working with a local antenna T.V. company called TV25. The CEO is Brian Short. We began by talking with Mr. Short and going over his current website, and all the things he hopes to achieve with this new website. In this meeting I took some very scattered notes that are shown below.  Some of the main things that I gathered from this meeting was that Mr. Short wanted his site to flow very well and be easy to read. This is also made me think of a site that is sleek and modern to show that they are still very technology oriented even though they still use antennas, unlike cable companies. A long with looking at his current website and logo I wanted to find a way to spice up the layout, and add interest for his viewers. He was also very interested in the idea of a carrousel in the home page of his site that was linked to the weather, YouTube, and News. The next step was creating a layout in Illustrator to start to plan where thin...

My made up company is called Manny's Marbles. I had designed a navy blue and orange logo for the company. With tis logo I designed a t-shirt design, billboard design, storefront design, app icon design, and a business card design. I mocked all of them in photoshop to make a realistic representation of what they would look like. Here are all of my designs! 

  When I stated brainstorming about color schemes I instantly thought about the primary colors and maybe some more muted neutrals because those are the main colors in Marbles. to the right are the two color schemes that I like the most and the color combos that I thought looked best within the color schemes. I ended up up choosing the color scheme on the top because I thought it had the most versatility and most practicality. So I was left with these two color combinations and I picked this color combination because I liked how visible it would be on a variety of colors and also how good both of the colors would look with a different tag line color.  I put the orange on top because it drew the viewers eye to Manny first then marble second, which is how  I wanted it to be read.   

These are my newly revised logos. Some of the comments. I received were to try to use the rounded font with the motion concept. I also ha the comment to try and put the marble in different places within my logo. I even tried deleting the marble to see if I could create a bouncing effect without making it too literal. I also though it would make the logo more compact if I was able to somehow stack the fonts or the bouncing stroke. My overall favorite is the circle logo with he tag line in the middle.