Jack's Mannequin Sound Slides

This project was difficult to do since I had never composed a newsletter before. I wasn't sure what exactly should be in the newsletter, so I covered a lot of information and wanted to make it appear like it was a yearly newsletter for the customers of this whale watch. I also wanted the newsletter to stand out, so if someone saw it on a table they would want to pick it up and read it. I used blues because it would remind people of the ocean, and I included a lot of pictures so the reader wouldn't be put off by a piece of paper that just looked like it just had a bunch of words on it. I really liked how the design of the newsletter was already set up through the template, but in a way I also wish I could have had more say in changing the template so that some pictures could be bigger.

Whale Watching Brochure

I wanted to use this brochure to make people become interested in going on a whale watch. To do this, I put pictures of what one might see on a whale watch in the middle of the inside brochure, where one's eye is immediately drawn to after opening up the brochure. It was hard to pick what information to put in the brochure so the reader wouldn't feel overwhelmed when looking at it. I stuck to the very basics so the reader would know where it is, what it is, and when to get there. I thought the most challenging thing was how to set up the brochure, like what information to use and where, and also how to make it aesthetically pleasing. If I had more time I would definitely work on the aesthetics of it, I like the inside of the brochure but I feel that I could have done more with the outside of it.

CD Release Poster

This project was very different since it was done in Quark, a project that I hadn't used to make a poster before. Because of this it was somewhat difficult to figure out how to do certain things and it took a lot of trail and error to get a better grasp of Quark. I wasn't sure what to with the background, but I took the idea from an album cover that they had already done and I really like the way it came out and the different colors that were used. If I had more time I would have played around a little more to see what Quark can do besides just the basics.