WEEK 5

Today I am experimenting ideas for my publication. I have narrowed it down to two ideas and I feel passionate about both....

• 21st Invitation

• 2009/2010 Calendar

21st Invitation
My 21st birthday is coming up YAY! Apparently this is the biggest milestone and party of your life and will hold a lot of memories to reflect upon. My idea for the invitation is for it to be unlike an ordinary invite and be quite different and creative. I'd like to create some kind of ticket. Possibly an interpretation of Ticketek concert tickets or a Golden Ticket like Willy Wonka's. This would be challenging to form some kind of replica of these tickets. I can imagine it would be a tedious project, though I would be proud of the end result of the product. Below are some examples of the design I desire...



Calendar
Designing a calendar would be quite creative as there are so many different ways of doing so. The theme of the calendar would be something personal to me. I am apart of a performance group who are in midst of launching their company, Curly Girl Burlesque. A calendar would be a good source of promotion and advertising. Images could include whole-group shots, individual characters of the troupe, and on-stage performance pics. Such designs could be similar to the following...

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A new & improved CV!

YAY Today was a bit more creative! We could improve our Resumes by using colour, an image, bordered/lined text-boxes & extending it to more than 1 page. This you would think would be considered an easier task compared to last weeks....but no! Because there were less rules and more creative input, I found it harder to compose. I couldn't decide on a complimentory colour scheme to use throughout the CV that didn't make it look too much like a newsletter.
I ended up with a CV that was 1 page, had an image and title, and followed a repeated pattern with titles being in colourful text-boxes and borders. I chose to make a Performance CV to possibly use for dancing/singing/acting/performing auditions, which I think represented me swell.
Over & Out!

UH-OH!

NEVER SAVE WORK AS A PDF FILE IF IT'S NOT COMPLETED YET!!!
....a lesson i learned today!

1 page, 1 font, 1 colour CV

Wow I never knew how much information I could fit onto one page!
This week we had to design a CV that could only include 1 page with 1 font and black & white text, no colour. Using InDesign was a new experience, which at first I found very tedious and frustrating. I kept wishing it was as simple as Microsoft Office Word! At the end of the class however, I felt a bit more familiar with the program and that I was capable of doing the basic steps such as forming text-boxes, inserting text, using different fonts and changing font sizes. The limitations for creating the CV made it hard for me to design a layout. I felt restricted and as though I could not fulfill the task to make important information stand out with only using 1 font. Also the instruction to have only 1 page made it more difficult to know how much info to show & what was more important & valuable to have on a CV.
Overall, I developed a design that I like which is not too clustered with information and is easy to read.

Greetings Earthlings....

Hi there!

Computer-illiterate Fi here, ready to take on and tackle the big Mac's.....not refering to McDonalds ofcourse! This is my first blog ever and I am quite excited to join the social norm of the 21st Century.