Collage Project

For this project, I used only pictures that I have taken (or that have been taken of me) during the past few years. Most of them are memorable experiences or symbols that are important to me, such as the photos taken during my semesters in France and New Zealand. It took quite a while for me to complete this project, mainly because I had a difficult time placing and arranging each layer, considering there were so many of them, and making sure that the layers were in the right order. I played around a lot with drop shadow, inner and outer shading, and the stroke aspects of each photo. I also used the selection tools and the magnetic lasso to cut out some images, and used the eraser tool on low intensity to help blend others into the background. I saturated some pictures to help them stand out, and tried to put interesting borders around others to add interest to the collage. 

Magazine Design Final Product

I ran into a few difficulties with this project, mainly having to do with not having a complete understanding of how to use InDesign. The first aspect of the cover that I made was the model, then the magazine title and background. I had to create the model, title, and background in Photoshop, then link the layers and drag them to InDesign in order to have the model’s head in front of the title without having the white box surrounding her cover the title as well. After figuring that out, I moved on to adding text. I chose the background color to match with the model’s bikini bottom, and used bright colors for the text that would both be visible when placed on the blue background, but would also not clash with anything else on the cover. For some of the cover stories, I imitated  Shape’s text design by highlighting some of the text boxes and making different lines of text different sizes. I made up some of the cover stories (such as the Candice Swanpool section) and chose some highlights that were used on previous issues. 

Logo Final Design

For this project, I changed the font, just to make the logo slightly more recognizable, and added the small climber silhouette. I also added a very basic outline of the recognizable shape of a mountain, which gives the logo a little something that identifies it with the sport of climbing. I also chose to keep the logo black, again, to retain the simplicity of the design.

Seabiscuit DVD Redesigned

The finished product.

DVD Redesign

I chose to redesign the DVD cover for Seabiscuit.

Shape Magazine

I'm not a big fan of magazines, but one of the ones I usually go to right away in the supermarket is Shape. I'm a very active person and I'm always looking for new workouts, so health/lifestyle magazines tend to draw my attention. They also have articles relating to new finds about healthy eating and how to boost energy levels, which is also something that interests me.

Basically, I'm not into the gossip/tabloid genre of information and magazines like Cosmo fall into more of the 'read it to make fun of it' category, leaving me with either Men's Health/Maxim material and, the only other option, women's health magazines. I used to tear out pages from Shape that had any kind of new ab routine that I hadn't heard of, and some of the articles in there are genuinely interesting. Shape more or less pertains to my life, and although 'Rumors that Jennifer Aniston is Having Octuplets, and you'll never guess who the dad is!' headlines are tempting, I prefer the good ole' 'Ten Ways to Toned Thighs' subject matter.

CD Redesign- Finish