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Earlier this week I put together and completed the layout of the main article of my portfolio magazine. This article is about Octane Ink and my time spent there while interviewing Max Bullard, an employee of Octane and previous student of STC. The article is two spreads long, and utilizes the photos taken by me… Read more

On Tuesday, we had the opportunity to laser designs we made on to pens. Personally, mine is a Christmas gift for my dad, but some people also did contact information in case they wanted to make more to hand out to possible employers. Before lasering onto the pens, we had to create something for the… Read more

Today in class I worked on creating my own product label. I chose to create a label for liquid plant food, based on my own plant food product. I started with creating a sunflower for the center with my pen tool, and am planning on adding a masked-out photo of one of my own succulents.… Read more

Today I finished and turned in my Product Spead for my portfolio magazine. My spread features essential items needed when painting. Well not all of them are needed necessarily, but they all help. I posed all of my products in a lightbox for an all-white background photo. I cleaned the photo up in Photoshop, and… Read more

I recently read another article on trends for 2023, this time about social media, and I wanted to write another post confirming and falsifying these trend predictions. The first passage talked about TikTok taking over the world, in regards to media. In my opinion, TikTok has definitely grown and risen in popularity and usage within… Read more

Yesterday during our Design Development and Layout classes, we utilized our studio to take some headshots for our magazines. In our editor’s letter we’ll need a nice, professional photo for a personal touch and feel, since it is a letter from the author and creator. This gave us as students a thorough reminder on on… Read more

Cars for Sale is a design company that designs and creates websites for other companies, and as a class, we recently were allowed a tour of their establishment. Something interesting that they described was their work system. To prevent issues that have occured in the past, they created a communication system where each section contacts… Read more

I recently read through chapter two of Timothy Samara’s Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual. One specific section talked about the psychology of color in design. I want to discuss its use in advertising. The psychology of color in advertising is a powerful tool that marketers use to influence consumer behavior. It is based on… Read more

I reacently read up on the most popular technology trends for 2023. The article was written just before the end of 2022, and described what the people should expect in technology trends for the upcoming year. The first trend described was “AI Everywhere.” As was predicted, AI has developed so much in recent months and… Read more

In my previous post, I wrote about my visit to Fresh Produce. There were so many inspiring works in their gallery, and there were a few that I liked that incorporated handwriting into text, which is something you wouldn’t normally see, besides maybe a signature. It got me thiking about how I could do something… Read more