Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Type challenge - Mary Tyler Moore

This week's type challenge is from the Mary Tyler Moore Show.

What is the typeface used in the title?


First person to e-mail Professor Taylor with the correct answer wins a Starbucks card.

magazine

I took a floating review on my magazine project.

Monday, November 17, 2008

PR student's survey

Professor Taylor passes along this survey from a PR student. Here's the message:

We appreciate you taking the time to complete our MAR 356 survey about our
Hookah Bar proposal for Marshall Street. The survey should take about
15 minutes to complete. Please be assured that the information you
provide on this survey is anonymous.

Here is the website:


http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=RzsVcHdx47zFceHTo4WASg_3d_3d



Thank you for your time,

Scott Lepkofker
Lina Lisnere
Joanna Rivera
Viviana Rodriguez

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Magazine

Back cover: 

Second Spread: 



First Spread: 



My Cover: 



My magazine wouldn't save as spreads, so I just have the individual pages, but I think you can tell which page goes with which. I did my main layout on a festival that I went to this summer in Tennessee called Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. Basically, my deign motif was just that I wanted to bring the fun and free atmosphere at the festival to my design and make the reader feel like they are really there. My first layout tiles the pictures and bleeds them across the page to my headline "UnRooLy"- a play on the name of the festival, accompanied by the definition of the term bonnaroo. My second spread uses the colors from the festival logo and the font (Bauhaus) in it too. I used the same grid design at the bottom of my second spread. My sidebar is a Bonnaroo survival guide that I wrote- things I wish I would have known before going. My back cover is an Absolut ad because there are a ridiculous number of Absolut ads in Rolling Stone. Overall, I'm happy with my design because I think it's very eye catching since it's colorful and fun. 

magazine



I decided to do a dog magazine and call it Unleashed. I wanted it to be very modern looking and colorful. My cover has a black and white picture of a dog with coordinating colors. My first spread's title is "For the love of dog" playing on the phrase "for the love of god". I wanted the colors to play off the beautiful picture of the dog. My 2nd spread has a green background that I think works well with the dog pictures because grass is incorporated into two of them. My sidebar is titled, "Has your pooch packed on the pudge?" With tips to help dogs lose weight. I really enjoyed doing this magazine and I have learned a lot about design by doing it. 

Magazine Design





Here's my magazine project. I chose to do a sports-themed magazine called "Gridiron"

Clint Clemens

Better late than never, right?
I really enjoyed hearing what Clint Clemens had to say during his speech. I particularly liked hearing how he got some of his really intense shots. He is super innovative in his approach, especially the use of his friend's motorcycle with a sidecar to shoot other motorcycles. I also liked hearing about all of the perks of his job. How he gets to (or used to get to) fly all sorts of places around the world to take pictures, and how he gets to deal with things like the multi-million dollar Prada boats. It was nice to hear a photographers insight on the 'psychology of photography' and how you can either be an observer or a participant in an environment depending upon the camera angle you shoot at.