Critique Feb. 28

This week I got to do lots of designing. It was pretty enjoyable overall. I really liked the graffiti and logo assignments. I also designed Short talk in Vox and a poster and have been trying to finalize Global Journalist, so it has been pretty busy.
Short Talk was a bit of a learning experience for me this week. On one of the pages I had to work with an infobox/graphic and I had not really done many of these in the past. There was a quarter page ad on the page and not very much text, so I struggled with trying to create a graphic to fill the space and make it interesting. I worked with Liz on solving the space problem with another ad and she also was great in helping me make the infobox better.
I will get another chance this weekend in the quest to make short talk awesome.

I was pleased with how my graffiti turned out. As I said in class I didn't want all of my letters to look the same, I just went with letters I liked. The contrast and individuality of the letters worked in my opinion to express something about me.
As for the Vox logos, none of mine were selected, but I was happy to hear from Liz that she liked them artisticly, it just wasn't practical enough. I didn't design all of my logos to be practical , however they would have worked in my opinion. It was a good learning experience in Illustrator. I had not worked too much with this software, and now I have a better grasp of how it works.
Global Journalist has been a little bit of a nuisance. It has been hard to communicate with the editors because they are not there as much as the Vox staff. They meet on Wednesday and I always have to work. My design is pretty workable right now and they have lots of comments and things they want me to change. The grid is way different than what I've worked on in the past and there is lots of text to worry about. I like the opportunity it presents as a clip, and to work with a different group of people, but it has not been as much fun as anticipated. But I guss everything isn't always fun to design.

So we are in the process of wrapping GJ up now and I do short talk this weekend and that is all that is going on this week besides website, and protfilio and resume work- which always can be worked on.