problem 5

For my spring break I visited the city of Chicago. Included in my brochure are most of the activities that I did while on my visit. I wanted the brochure to be colorful and inviting. I wanted it to tell a story in a interesting yet informative way. I felt my brochure turned out in a way that I felt I wanted it to be portrayed. I had a slight bit of trouble in printing the brochure, so the final product isn’t exactly as I planned it to be.

rough draft project 5

Creating a brochure.
Creating a brochure full of everything I did over spring break I think could be a good way to show my experiences and display it all in a creative way.
My first attempt to sketch out the brochure didn't turn out exactly as I had in my mind. I had the most trouble with the cover of the brochure, after sketching out the whole base of both of the brochures I started to think of more creative ideas and added them to the covers, I felt bringing the entire display together more smoothly.
I feel my sketches helped me to get a feel for the ideas I would like to use in my final brochure. I think I can confidently say I think my final brochure will turn out well and hopefully to some extent to my expectations.

final quotes and excerpts

I liked this project. I felt I got to show my creativity in it. The traditional version of both the quote and the excerpt were not as much fun or exciting for me to do. I really liked doing the modern version of both of them though. It was somewhat of a challenge but I felt I took my time and did a good job, I was happy with my results.

Traditional Quote:

I chose to do the traditional quote with more of a traditional theme to it. I felt it was somewhat of a Victorian style border and also the font I felt had the same feel to it. I felt the Victorian style was traditional because it reminds me of the medieval times or maybe the renaissance time period.

Modern quote:

For the modern quote I wanted it to have more of a unique feel to it. So in looking for ideas I searched for pictures and came across this one. I felt it fit my quote quite well and that I could incorporate the two of them together quite well. I wanted a simple font so the focus would be more on the meaning of the picture and its words. I put the words the way that I did so that it would have the feeling of entering the man’s mind.

Modern excerpt:

 The excerpt I choose was from a story about a tree, so I thought it was relevant to use a tree with the words and have them work together. The font I choose I felt went along with the style of the tree I choose. I tried to make the words flow along with the words. I felt the style of it all was unique and therefore modern and different than traditional style.

Traditional excerpt:

I choose to the border that looked somewhat like a plant, the border I found had vines in it and I felt would go along with the excerpt because it was about a tree. The font I choose I felt was traditional and looked English to me and I thought went well with the theme of the border.

quotes and excerpts

I picked a quote from Ghandi and I picked an excerpt from a shel Silverstein poem called "the giving tree". 

When asked to pick an excerpt I at first thought of picking a poem, a famous love poem or really just any famous poem that I knew...I first started searching and they all seemed a bit boring or too deep for the mood I was in. I wanted to pick something that had meaning to me. 

I thought a bit longer and in my search for poems in google I saw the name Shel Silverstein. That immediately rang a bell for me, but I couldn't exactly put a picture to what he did. So I did some more research and saw that he was the author or the poem called " the giving tree". When I was little I loved that poem and would read it all the time. 

In finding two writings that sparked interest for me I was excited to get started on this assignment. 

I started sketching out ideas, the farther along I was the easier it was for me to think of new ways of displaying the writings. 

Out of my rough drafts I decided to go with either the face with the message or the brain for the modern display of the quote. For the traditional view of the quote I decided to do a sort of old english style. 

For the excerpt modern style I decided to pick the tree and for the traditional I picked a style which started off with a big A and reminded me of a old story book of fairytales kind of style.