Monthly Archives: April 2017

I enjoyed this week’s assignment. I thought it was fun and it brought back my magazine dreams from my childhood. I set my layout up as a magazine interview like in Teen Vogue or Seventeen. It has pictures and pull quotes in unique areas versus a more straightforward and basic layout. The fortune 500 company …

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For this unit, we were asked to create a dummy newsletter for a Fortune 500 company that interests us. For … More

This week we were asked to begin developing a newsletter for a Fortune 500 company. I chose to focus on Whole Foods because I’m aware of their mission and feel they have strong stories to tell.

I was thrilled to use InDesign again, and when I started designing the newsletter I felt like I was almost designing a spread for the yearbook (where I work). I have a comfort with this type of design and am glad that I can utilize my skills for this design project. Visuals will be tricky. Stock pictures are hit or miss and the pictures Whole Foods has on their website are of bad quality when reused. I do want visuals and color to drive the newsletter, so I’ll have to continue sifting through those pictures.

1. What were you asked to do?  In this unit we were asked to create a dummy layout for a fortune 500 company of our choosing. 2. How did you respond to what you were asked to do?  I was excited to choose a company outside of something that I normally do because I usually …