Wedding Bells! (not mine) Design Inspiration

So if most of you don't know already my mother just recently got engaged, which gives me free license to flip through bridal magazines and live vicariously through her.

While flipping and planning her wedding, I started to realize what a great inspiration wedding invitations can be for various projects, specifically mini portfolios. With a wide varitey of color, texture, patterns and styles there is an invitation out there to inspire just about anyone.

This one came from www.brides.com
where they have several different examples. While these are great to look at you also have to think about where you're applying and trying to create a design based on that company's aesthetic. This one seems perfect for anything cute and crafty like MSL or Real Simple.


I love this one for it's original feel and journalism design nerdyness!

Woe Dreamweaver

I thought I had it all thought out. I've been trying to install the 30 day trial of Dreamweaver on my computer so this website will start to resemble something functional. So I start the download, get half way through and MY COMPUTER FREEZES.

Like many people in my life, the woman at Tiger Tech didn't really respond to the urgency in my voice. She told me, without making eye contact with me, it would take her 5 to 7 business days for her to back everything up, install Snow Leopard and then fix all the Dream Weaver stuff.

So I then I went to Best Buy where they could do it by tomorrow! Wahooo

I came up with a design I really like and think the layout is pretty set. I've also been googling multiple 'how to' things in Dream Weaver so I feel pretty confident that its all going to go smoothly.

4.28.10 You can't miss this.

Web Pages that suck

http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/

You can thank me later. What better way to learn great web design than by looking at God-awful web pages?

You won't be disappointed some of these are actually funny they're so bad.

I didn't give anyone anything to critique in class but I feel much more confident in my designing abilities after looking at some of these.

4.22 Covers. Down in the dumps?

I really wanted to get this cover because it was my last cover group! I worked on these for awhile to form three especially conceptual ideas. I was pretty happy with them. I thought at first of using a photo from the server but I thought that an illustrative cover would be what the editors wanted.

However, They still can be portfolio pieces with a little more work.

More Meredith...What else?

I've received more practice with department pages than anything else. This one seemed simple enough to but but after a little tweaking and critique from Jan and Erica It keeps getting better. As good as a department can get I guess. Just need to find new pictures, more action pictures and then VIOLA!



This one too keeps getting better. Just need to add some photos and change some colors to get a little more life into it. I got tired of waiting for a headline and deck from out publishing team and wrote one myself which isn't too bad.









This was just a tablescape department page that took me a little while to work on. I felt like I didn't have enough text to work with so struggled with the overall design. I think I envisioned it more pact like the other two and tried to avoid all the white space. This is just a draft but once i started looking at it from this perspective

Critique 4.14.10

Here is the first feature after much revisions and re-working from the publishers. I had basically nothing to work with and got stuck in that mind set.

It wasn't until Aimee gave me a few suggestions at lab the other day that I started looking at it differently.

The critique in class on Tuesday also helped. It was great to see what everyone else has come up with! More designs here to come after presentations tomorrow.

LBB 5.15.10

I felt like she was disapointed with my logos and to tell you the truth they weren't as great as I remember. I have a lot of revising to do but that will start at a later date.

She was articulate and very clear in telling us what she wanted. Horseshoes. I've never seen a symbol that is harder to make look well-designed instead of clip art. When I have a chance to breathe or think then I'll focus my undying attention on horseshoes. promise.