So we were asked to start designing the business card in our OU Pubs class. It was rough. I’m just so used to photoshop, so at first it kind of irritated me the things I couldn’t do in indesign. But eventually after working at home for hours and even in other classes I started to … Continue reading Small Card, Big Pain.
The organization I chose for this assignment was Julia Drake Public Relations. While this organization does not explicitly give a headquarters, their contact information suggests that they are based out of the Los Angeles area. While the company does not list a date for their opening, they do consider themselves a boutique agency. They assist … Continue reading “PR WRITING: Mini Backgrounder”
In my Public Relations Publications course, we designed a rough draft of a business card and this week we were to create a letterhead that correlated with the card. I was excited to create the letterhead! Making something simple, yet creative, seemed fun. This task took me less time than creating the business card and … Continue reading “Letterhead First Draft”
Phew!! We have made it through the first project!! This whole process has been a very interesting adventure. Starting out, I was terrified that I would not be successful in this course because if I am being totally honest, Bootcamp Week scared me and seemed incredibly overwhelming. However, when I began to actually apply what … Continue reading “Just Keep Swimming”
With these past two weeks being part of our first big project, it was really exciting to start working and creating my first business card and letterhead for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. As a continuation of Lesson 2.1, this week we were asked to design a letterhead through InDesign for our organization. We were … Continue reading Letterhead Reflection
For the final task this week we were asked to go ahead and take all of our research, ideas, and planning and turn it into a business card draft on InDesign. I was excited to start putting the business card together because we finally got to use all the things we learned and watched last week … [Read more…]
Visual language. A phrase that really tripped me up at first but, it got me thinking. What did I want people to take away from my card? Why is it necessary? What will make it stand out? Originally, I had the idea of producing a visually driven business card. I wanted the logo to be placed … Continue reading My Communications Strategy
This past week we worked on business cards for the first time and I have to say, I am a fan. We were supposed to research an organization, find its competitors and its strengths and create a business card. At first, I was a little confused about the assignment, mainly because it took me a little … Continue reading The First of Many Business Cards
For the Alpha Omicron chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta’s visual messaging, I want to portray a modern idea of college women and move away from the floral, frilly messaging. I want clean, minimalistic design that represents the classical history behind greek organizations, Theta to be specific. When i think of what this looks like visually, I […]
