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…]
For this next part, I began to visualize what my business card for Thorns would look like. Its important to choose visuals that convey the messages that match your organization, I will talk more about that below. I want to use some pretty fonts, maybe a script one for the name and then a more unique … [Read more…]
For this part of the research assignment I created a Pinterest board to reflect some of the styles of marketing that my organizations competitors use. I found it hard to find things like flyers and materials besides Facebook and website pages. I also went further than my local competitors to include the images from some … [Read more…]
This week we are beginning a three-week-long project of designing a business card and letterhead for an organization of our choosing. I chose Thorn Originals as my client because it’s my mothers small business, and as such I have grown up surrounded by it. As I learn more things in my PR, advertising, and marketing … [Read more…]
This past week I survived, but did not thrive, in InDesign and Photoshop bootcamp. Bootcamp consisted of watching several hours of tutorials over these two programs, completing some typesetting and newsletter formatting assignments and writing a few blog posts. We started off the week by creating a fake newsletter with all the right elements and … [Read more…]
To continue learning the typesetting of newsletters and newspaper we used InDesign to recreate the front page of a newsletter from an example given to us. The link below will take you to my PDF. The PDF has three pages, the first page is the one I created to mimic the two below it. TypesettingAssignment Although it was a … [Read more…]
For part of this weeks assignments, we analyzed newspapers to try to identify all of the elements that usually make up a newsletter or newspaper. I chose the sports page from USA Today Weekend and highlighted the parts. I could only find nine out of the ten main parts on this page; it is lacking subheads. This was an … [Read more…]
