Every week I feel surprised by your design because there are always changes to your previous ideas and that's great!
I like that you have matched the colors from the logo to your letters on the cover, however, I feel that the top leaf color of your logo gets lost with the crumpled paper background. Maybe you could darken the leaf, move the location a bit, or do as Coni suggests and bring the paper background into photoshop and edit that one area where the logo sits, so the type sits "in" the photo and not on top of it. So in other words try making that spot where that leaf is less textured so we can see it. Just some ideas!
Though I like your image on the center spread, I really liked the infograph you chose to have there before, with the ripping effect. But I can see that maybe it did not give you enough room to fit all the information you needed. I feel that maybe to liven up the page a little, your subheadings and headings could use some color. Also I think the title of the page (Cradle to Cradle Certified Levels of Achievement) might need to be bigger, and I'm not quite sure how the fold mark will invade in the title, but maybe break it up to the line splits evenly on both pages, rather than having a line cut through the letters.
I love the image on page 6 with the shavings around the pencil, it also helps the eye guide up and down, however that one large paragraph is a bit too wide. The line length is a bit long. Maybe try breaking it up into 2 columns? Or making the paragraph more narrow if you want to stick with the one paragraph.
Ophelia – Some reminders of what we talked about in class:
Cover – lighten the background a bit so that the colors are in more contrast to the background, allowing them to be more vibrant. Also this should allow the tagline to be more visible.
Move the backcover infograph information to the inside infograph? Then, think about what you’d like to have on the very important top of the back cover.
Page 4/5 – a new photo might be best, one that shows the children in a classroom using these items. More typographic work is needed to make the lists more inviting to read. I think we talked about having the Levels of Achievement all on page 4, and a photo along with the Hannover Principles of page 5. Rearranging the sections, and moving the photo out of the very middle of the spread, might possibly offer you more options for the layout.
Italics are hard to read, they just are. Use them only for emphasis, not whole paragraphs.
Since I am looking at printer spreads for the last 4 pages, I’m not sure I can give you much more input.
Please post reader’s spreads to this blog, so we do see the correct left/right pages sitting across from each other.
Ophelia,
ReplyDeleteEvery week I feel surprised by your design because there are always changes to your previous ideas and that's great!
I like that you have matched the colors from the logo to your letters on the cover, however, I feel that the top leaf color of your logo gets lost with the crumpled paper background. Maybe you could darken the leaf, move the location a bit, or do as Coni suggests and bring the paper background into photoshop and edit that one area where the logo sits, so the type sits "in" the photo and not on top of it. So in other words try making that spot where that leaf is less textured so we can see it. Just some ideas!
Though I like your image on the center spread, I really liked the infograph you chose to have there before, with the ripping effect. But I can see that maybe it did not give you enough room to fit all the information you needed. I feel that maybe to liven up the page a little, your subheadings and headings could use some color. Also I think the title of the page (Cradle to Cradle Certified Levels of Achievement) might need to be bigger, and I'm not quite sure how the fold mark will invade in the title, but maybe break it up to the line splits evenly on both pages, rather than having a line cut through the letters.
I love the image on page 6 with the shavings around the pencil, it also helps the eye guide up and down, however that one large paragraph is a bit too wide. The line length is a bit long. Maybe try breaking it up into 2 columns? Or making the paragraph more narrow if you want to stick with the one paragraph.
Great work so far!
Ophelia – Some reminders of what we talked about in class:
ReplyDeleteCover – lighten the background a bit so that the colors are in more contrast to the background, allowing them to be more vibrant. Also this should allow the tagline to be more visible.
Move the backcover infograph information to the inside infograph? Then, think about what you’d like to have on the very important top of the back cover.
Page 4/5 – a new photo might be best, one that shows the children in a classroom using these items. More typographic work is needed to make the lists more inviting to read. I think we talked about having the Levels of Achievement all on page 4, and a photo along with the Hannover Principles of page 5. Rearranging the sections, and moving the photo out of the very middle of the spread, might possibly offer you more options for the layout.
Italics are hard to read, they just are. Use them only for emphasis, not whole paragraphs.
Since I am looking at printer spreads for the last 4 pages, I’m not sure I can give you much more input.
Please post reader’s spreads to this blog, so we do see the correct left/right pages sitting across from each other.
Great work – keep it up.