You Can't Miss This

Not from a blog this week, my 'You Can't Miss This,' comes from an email from a fellow designer. It's a wedding announcement done by a graphic designer for her own wedding. I think it's an excellent example of typography finally displayed in something other than a magazine spread or a newspaper page.

It goes through their entire history of how they ended up together presented in an excellent graphic display.

Response

I loved being a judge today. I thought it was really interesting to see people's different styles and tastes. There were some of those spreads that I really didn't like at all and others really stuck up for them. I guess as designers people just appreciate different elements of design.
iIt was interesting to see the judging process for a competition like that and really made me think of what a good spread had to have to catch a designer's eye.

Also, looking through old images of spring preview covers I really didn't like some of them, which didn't give me a lot of inspiration for doing my own.

Jan. 26 Works in Progress

Spring Preview Cover and huge calender: Goals: I don't want people to cringe when they look at it. This one I'll be more relaxed about showing in a critique.

Redo of the Cover one and feature one: Goals: Don't fail Advanced Magazine Design

Graphic Design: Three FDA brochures: How to give children medicine, How to prevent the common cold and Living with Arthritis. Due in two weeks.

Critique

First assignment: A cover and a feature for VOX. No surprise there.
I'll be the first to say that what I produced this week was just BLAH. I knew the critique today wasn't going to be fun as I set out my PDF's, and a sinking feeling took hold of my stomach and didn't let go. I'm not one to make excuses or blame others for why my work was BLAH so I wont mention the hours I had to work this week and all the other assignments I had. This week was nothing short of my priorities slapping me in the face and then rearranging themselves.


For the cover I used the Boys to Men story and a HOT WHEELS car to illustrate the little boy angle. I thought by taking the little car and enlarging it to take over the cover, it would also look add the 'Man' element from the Title. I thought this solution would be a better one than using those goofy photos we were given. I think using a car to illustrate the story and having the second story being about cars was a little confusing. So I completely understood what Jan was saying in class.

As far as the feature I just ran out of time. It would have been more worth while if all the time I would have spent on the cover would have showed more. I work at the Tin Can on the weekends and under estimated the number of tables I had for the play off games. I just ran out of time. I think the other part too was not being 100% sure of the risks I could take.

I got home from class made some popcorn and had a two hour pouting session while I watched Oprah. I acknowleged the fact that I just have to keep going and I need to stop being so dramatic. One bad day in design. Lock it up Kelly.