Milton
Above is a link to an interview with Milton Glasser, design genius. I thought the site had some other interesting stuff AND Milton gives his advice for young designers....hooray, that's us!
Also, Noisy Decent Graphics puts up yet another interesting photo series about the functionality of design in everyday things. It made me realize that I need to start paying more attention. Maybe one day I could design door signage and highway city signs!
This week I am critiquing my 2-pg. feature for Vox about a woman giving up her unborn baby for adoption. The article will be titled "Letting go," which I am very happy with the hed and deck final decision!
I want to have a visually intriguing spread while maintaining the seriousness of the story, but I'm having some trouble. Someone in class tonight suggested having the letters gradually separate from one another more and more as you head the head, which I thought was a good idea. I was also thinking of doing some sort of gradient in the background of the text or something, but we'll see about that. Another suggestion was having the text fade out toward the end, which was another good idea. Man, I love our brainstorming sessions in lab!
Another problem I am having is the photo options. There is one photo that everyone has agreed on, a vertical of the woman with her hand on her protruding belly, however the other photo ran over the weekend in the Missourian! The only other photo option I have is to add a photo from the ultrasound, which is a bit overwhelming when you view the photos. I'm afraid too many people will be weirded out by it. I'm thinking about designing one with the photo small and on the second page, and designing one with no ultrasound photo and having a pulled quote or the vertical photo on the second page and running my head bigger.
If you have any good ideas for me, let me know!
It was neat to get to hear more from the class about their Trends assignments today. I especially thought Stephanie's was funny how the guy landed his job with AP.
I was not as excited about the assignment, especially when I couldn't get ahold of anyone, but once I got to just sit back and read everyone else's experiences it really made the whole assignment worthwhile. There was such a broad range of different interviews on graphic designers and magazine designers that it really humbled me in that I don't have to freak out if I don't end up getting a job in magazine right away. Graphic design is an option and who knows, maybe one day I will freelance through a website and not have go into an office ever again!
