FINAL PROJECT!

I must say, I was quite impressed with myself by the time we finished our final projects. As I explained in the previous post, the final project consisted of designing a two page spread for a story about an immigrant that has accomplished something since thier travel to the U.S. My story features Dahaung Zhou, an international painter and sculptor that is in a collaborative duo with his brother. The two have won awards including American Immigrant Achievement award and been honored by producing work for President Obama. Using InDesign, I created a layout I felt would match the style of the man I interviewed-- modern and simple. This layout consists of all the elements of a typical magazine spread- text of course (body), headline, byline, deck, infographic, photo credit, sidebar and a pullout quote. 

Map infographic

In this assignment we used the techniques from the infographic before. This time, we used a map that referred to the topic of our final project. In the final project we have to find an immigrant that has done something significant since thier move to the U.S.  The process of making this map was quite tedious. First I used the pen tool in InDesign to trace the shape of China, then the other countries, then colored them, separated the boardering countries from each other, and then named the countries and oceans. I then placed the already made north symbol and world map view on the bottom of the map. At the top includes the headline and chatter, then there is the body, and a byline. There is also another, more broad view of China in its relation to the rest of the world is shown in an inset picture at the bottem.

Frida 1 and 2 Layouts

We used the skills in photoshop, and InDesign to create layouts for a story written by Elio Leturia, myVisual Journalism professor of course. In this assignment we were provided all the elements for the story such as the text, photos and location that the story took place. While we were given the elements, it was our job to arrage the elements into a layout that would work for a magazine. The first layout is designed in more of a tabloid style, the second is more modern looking as I attempted to use a simpler approach to the article.

Theatre Scene Toning and Restoration

In this project we just Photoshop once again to tone and restore an old photo, this portrait had several holes and streaks within the picture again i have taken down the saturation in the photo down a bit since it appears to be very red I also used the stamp tool to fix the lines that appear on the picture 

Bisabuela Image Restoration

Yet another photo restoration project. Professor Leturia's abuela is featured in this assignment. As you can see in the first photo, there are several holes and dark spots. In Photoshop I used the stamp tool to take portions of the photo and place them in the holes. I also brightened some of her features, her eyes, lips, hair and hairpiece. I even took a couple years off by giving definition to her cheekbones (notice the brightening of her cheek and the shadow underneath).

Midterm- Webpage design

In this project we had to use the toned and retouched photos to produce the design for a website. All photos had to reflect a general theme for the website. I used InDesign to create the webdesign page that consisted of photos, text boxes and lines. We used other websites for inspiration for layouts, I used HerCampus site for Columbia students for inspiration.

Photo Toning

The first photo is the original and the second photo has been digitally retouched using Photoshop. This photo illustration is from a series of photos i took to exemplify the thrifting process- old clothes being thrown away and then relived through new owners. We used Photoshop to restore our photos. In Photoshop I lowered the exposure in the the photo, increased the contrast and intensity in the photo. Then I used a technique where I first created a new layer on top of the photo, painted it black, then erased parts of the haze from elements in the picture I felt needed more detail or clarity.

Infographic

In this project we were provided information from a print story about gay-friendly colleges in Illinois and instructed to create an infographic. Infographics are meant to inform and give visual ease to information that is heavy in numbers or is better to understand in a chart or graphic. An infographic includes a headline, deck, chatter, body, credit and source.

Page Replication

Unfortunately I have two of the same images loaded, But this displays the page replication that we did for the Visual Journalism course. The original page was ripped out of a MensHealth magazine and we were told to duplicate the entire page using InDesign programming. In this project, we learned about alinement, duplicating texts, fonts and colors. 

Cool

This is the same image, obviously in color, the colors selected are cool colors. This means that there is more cyan (a shade of blue) and less yellow, aside of course the yellow circles that fall from the top. The pillars are still a solid striking centerpiece to the entire thing so I wanted to keep them dark, but the coins are all varying shades of cool blues, greens and purples.

Warm

This image is the same image using various warm colors. Warm colors have more use in percentage of magenta and yellow.

Black and White

The image created here is the first assignment for my Visual Journalism class offered at Columbia College Chicago. Whenever I draw or sketch, I tend to contrast the hard edges of primary shapes with fluidity so I attempted to do so with this assignment. The pillars on the left side are bold and striking so I did not want to over power the eye, I originally had varying sizes of circles bouncing on the right side but this image was too convoluted. The circles seen here resemble coins and the repetition of the circle image is meant to create some fluidity that spills over into the solid striking pillars. The dashes of the last pillar is meant to create movement in the piece as if the last pillar is being blown away. My goal was to create an image showing my ability to use the shapes and tools offered in the InDesign program and also to create a fluid, eye catching design.