Week 39: Practicing with re-flowable layouts

The first days we had E-Pub basics with Nina Patrikka. We practised different features of the InDesign. New thing was the re-flowable layout, but I found out it isn’t really working with pictures and/or multiple columns, but works best in novels and so on, without or just small amount of pictures. I of course tried making my layout too “pretty”, so it was totally broken in re-flowable view… -__-

Week 38: Final logos?

After Karo’s comments Laura made some adjustments to the logos. DIP logo was the hardest, there was two real versions about it, while the other three were quite clear from the beginning.

Making the Powerpoint presentation about the project for friday, when the first pitching is. Tuesday we practiced, and I was the first to pitch my idea to my “client”, which were my teachers and fellow students. I wasn’t really prepared the pitch really well, I just made the Powerpoint slides. Some of them seemed irrelevant at this point, but I kept them anyway, and pitched it kinda the same to the customer on Friday. Arja from the museum seemed happy and kept nodding her head the whole time. :)

Week 37: More about the logos and starting of the main project

We made the logos ready. All of us sketched the logos, me and Laura drawed them on Illustrator, since Saine didn’t know how to use the program. Laura used more time on the logos than me, making improvements on the versions I made and making her versions of the two logos.

We were introduced to the project ideas. One of the clients had a project that quite caught my attention. It was for the Pohjois-Pohjanmaa museum, and the task was to make a new version about guided museum tour about animals in Finnish culture. At the time it was a booklet, and it was found online as a PDF. It would be fun to make this to an interesting application.

Week 38: Lab logos

We were given the task to make four logos for the labs that were missing logos. Labs are: digital publishing, sight and sound, development and education. In my group there are me, Laura and Saine. We brain stormed, talked and looked ideas from the internet, and made some first sketches for all four logos.