Self Promo Notepad

Our first project of the semester is to design a self promotional notepad with a QR code on it that takes you to our blog.  The target audience is future employers and the call to action is to go to our blog.

These are my thumbnails.

And this is my rough.

This is what I ended up with for the final version.

For this project we had to get a quote for 100 black and white notepads at 50 sheets apiece with a chipboard backing.  To get 100 of these made it would cost $123.53 total.  

Gorilla Awakening

This is a project my friend came to me with.  The religious clubs at PSU wanted to throw together a fun night to hang out and listen to live music.  He asked me to do the poster for it and i said sure because its good experience.  He basically just gave me a few guidelines and some things he wanted on it.

  This is what I came up with.  I printed one for them to mark on and tell me what changes they wanted.

This is what the final copy ended up looking like.  Personally, I dont like it.  I think its too busy and there are too many fonts but they loved it and that's all that matters hahaha.

Logo change

I did my logo change over Walmart.  They choose this new logo because it was simple and still stayed true to the history of Walmart.  They have been redoing stores with the logo since 2008.  I like the new logo, it seems fresh and crisp.  It almost has a "green" feel to it.

Bad Example

This says "Westco Home Furnishings" if you cant see it.  Its outside of the mall movie theatre in pittsburg.

Direct Mail Project

This assignment is a direct mail piece.  It will have custom names on it to sent to individuals.  My target audience is college age people who wear sunglasses.  The purpose of this piece is to get people to buy sunglasses.  Call to action is for them to go to the website.  It will be 5X7 with full bleed.  I choose the images the way I choose the images the way I did because I needed a girl and a boy picture.  All images are from the istock folder and i created the vectors.

Thumbs

 Front Rough

Back Rough

Finished Product

Fo fuuuun

This is what one of my friends made with my notepad. hahaha!

Self promo notepad - Final

This is what I ended up with.  I created all of the artwork in Illustrator and the text in Indesign.  My inspiration for the artwork was a record.  I collect records and enjoy listening to them.  All images were created by me and are copy write free.