This is my final typography project. I just learned a little about the pen tool in indesign while making this with the two big shapes. I didn’t spend a lot of time on the image of the buffalo running, the point is to make it look like a stampede. The BHS marching band is known as “The Herd” and I just wanted to imply that when they are marching they becoming a stampeding herd because they only stop for a train. This is why I tried to use kerning with the title and make it look like the letters are moving apart and together from each other. Not the best, could improve but with the amount of knowledge I’d say it’s a job well done. 

This is my final typography project. I just learned a little about the pen tool in indesign while making this with the two big shapes. I didn’t spend a lot of time on the image of the buffalo running, the point is to make it look like a stampede. The BHS marching band is known as “The Herd” and I just wanted to imply that when they are marching they becoming a stampeding herd because they only stop for a train. This is why I tried to use kerning with the title and make it look like the letters are moving apart and together from each other. Not the best, could improve but with the amount of knowledge I’d say it’s a job well done. 

4 months ago
I added pictures for something to go off of for my modular design. This change entailed a change in some picture and text boxes in the lower right. Dance moms are crazy! Although I think for my modular layout I will end up doing just “Dance as the theme.” Now off to look for some inspiration for my next spread. 

I added pictures for something to go off of for my modular design. This change entailed a change in some picture and text boxes in the lower right. Dance moms are crazy! Although I think for my modular layout I will end up doing just “Dance as the theme.” Now off to look for some inspiration for my next spread. 

4 months ago
4 months ago

swimming in a yearbook

My partner Hope Mueller and I put this Girls Swim and Dive spread together for second deadline for our yearbook. The first thing we did to get started was collect observations of the girls swimming team at meets and practices. We took into account their rules and rituals at practices and meets, like warm ups and the many cheers they took part in together.

Next writers got photo orders in to photographers so there would be decent pictures for your spread, because after watching the team and seeing some people it is easier to know what would be nice to see in the pictures, and who should be included in a few of them. 

To brainstorm some good new ideas and to disregard some old ideas that had already been done, Hope and I looked through some old yearbook swimming spreads from our school and other schools of both girls and boys. We noticed that most had pictures containing one person doing a stroke in the spread usually coming up for a breath of air in a pool blue background. We decided that was too boring and too simple, we wanted pictures of more than girls kicking their legs and poking their heads out of the water. 

Next we considered all of the girls and thought of a few people we would like to try to include in the spread. Then we formulated interview questions that we wanted to ask the chosen ones. We got as many good quotes as possible to include in captions, secondary coverage, and the story. Using the notes from the interviews and out observations we decided on an angle for our story. In writing the story we wrote somewhat of an outline first, then went back to add stuff, then went back to get rid of stuff and did that over and over again until it was perfect. 

I am very pleased with the final result of our spread, we had a good story, quality secondary coverage, and not the cliche of a person “coming up for air” for all of our pictures. I think it also helped that I enjoyed working with my partner, we really bounced thoughts off of each other and came up with a great spread. 

5 months ago
This is my basic layout for a yearbook spread. The point of this project was to work in separate steps in creating a layout. This layout will eventually become a modular design. This was just a first shot at something that I had never done before, so it could definitely use some improvements as far as placement goes, and then add some real words and pictures. However, with me being a rookie to all of this I would consider this well done. 

This is my basic layout for a yearbook spread. The point of this project was to work in separate steps in creating a layout. This layout will eventually become a modular design. This was just a first shot at something that I had never done before, so it could definitely use some improvements as far as placement goes, and then add some real words and pictures. However, with me being a rookie to all of this I would consider this well done. 

5 months ago