First Design Project… Check!

For my first design project, we were asked to design a business card and letterhead for our organization. At first I was intimidated because it would be our first time using InDesign to create a finalized product. I wasn’t sure if I was going to remember how to do everything we had learned in the tutorial videos. However, once I started messing around in the different applications it came back to me little by little, but I still had to ask for help often from the professors! I had to rework my design a few times. It took me a while to reach the simplicity I wanted, which I didn’t think would be as hard as it was. I got  little frustrated. I think I reacted this way because I knew what I wanted to do, but couldn’t quite get the design to the place I wanted it to be. It’s very easy to over complicate and over work a design, which is something I will definitely keep in mind for the next project.

I will actually be using this design for Destination Blank. I’ve already replaced my old logo with the one I created on my social media accounts. I know I might revisit it and rework it a little in the future, but right now I’m excited to have a legitimate logo for my travel blog.

I recommend students in the future to ask! If there’s something you can’t do, there’s someone (or a video) that can probably guide you there and you might even take you a step beyond what you thought you could do. Asking for help not only lets you branch out, but it lets your design branch out as well. I can’t think of a better way to use programs like InDesign than through people that know them well and can teach you to do things above what you thought was possible. It makes the project even more exciting and fun.