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After a long and thorough editing process, I have come up for with a final story board for the Ad/Pop-up corona virus PSA. To re-iterate, the goal of this pop-up is to encourage children from ages 4-6 to follow the corona virus precaution protocol in a kid-friendly way. A combination of research and advise fromContinue reading “Final Storyboard Proposal”

Since not very experienced, I had a lot of ideas for this pop-up “ad” any many of them I could not execute with out the technology in order to well, make a cartoon I guess. This left me trying to make the best of it using pen and paper, almost like a story board, butContinue reading “Iterations”

Why this? During this unique and sad time, it is important to remind the public that they should not panic, but follow the precautions that are suggest by the CDC. But, how do you get someone, with no medical training, and even little risk, to understand the necessity of following instryctions that they may notContinue reading “Corona virus ideas”

In this post we will be showing some different pictures that were taken with the theme of water sustainability and specifically the pollution of water with construction, specifically the construction of smart world at WPI. Before you can take a look at some pictures… a quick reminder of our audience and purpose. The purpose ofContinue reading “Photo Essay: some pictures”

Personally, I have never written a photo essay before and other than dabbling in a photography class my freshman year of high school, taking pictures was never really my thing. Never the less, I guess there will have to be plenty of research done in order to create an effective piece that accurately targets andContinue reading “Photo Essay: some thoughts”

For this project we were tasked to design a font that would serve on the cover of a children’s pop up story book called “Athena at Night”. The book was steampunk theme and written mostly for young girls as the plot includes a driven princess that escapes her way out of the castle. The finalContinue reading “Artist Statement”

The Dots… For our final font, we needed to make important decisions on key details of our font. One element that we are still very worried about is the details around the multiple lines that would represent the steampunk theme. Although we already came up with a very detailed idea of our font, some last-minuteContinue reading “Our Final Font”

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions As the design process is slowly coming to an end, we begin to realize that it is time to have an idea on what our final font is going to look like, which means making crucial decisions so that we can spend time perfecting our font instead of constantly changing the details.Continue reading “Step 3: finalizing our design.”

After we came up with our first draft, we presented it to the class to ask for comments and critiques. Many people liked our font because it was very pretty and unique. The font itself was very feminine, which would strongly appeal to the target audience of girls aged 5-9. Although there were many goodContinue reading “Step 2: Our First Edits”

What type of font would match the a punk rock theme storybook? After speaking with the producer of the book, the horizon for possible typefaces expanded pretty far since the criteria was set to be broad: make a font. Lower case letters or capital? More uniform or artsy? These are all questions that the creatorContinue reading “STEP 1: searching for ideas”