Final

Well, it has finally come. My last week of Graphic Design is here, and the final project was to create a brochure for our 21st Century program, e-Communication. When we first received the project, I really tried to envision my last two years in e-Comm. So far, we have learned the basics in web design, graphic design, animation, and video. In this last year I have gravitated more toward Graphic Design and Video. The special thing about e-Comm, is that it really gives you a taste of what you can eventually do for a career. 

In my brochure, I tried to incorporate a piece of each section into the poster. I found several pictures on our website, and chose my pictures based on how they expressed the strand of e-Comm they represented. Once I selected the pictures I wanted, I took them into InDesign to compile them proportionately. I then saved it as a PDF and brought it into Photoshop. The school colors here at Olathe Northwest are black and blue, so I created a new layer over the poster, and filled it with a dark blue color. I changed the opacity to about 20% so it created a nice blue film over the pictures.

 Next, I went to Illustrator. I used the original logo for e-Comm as a template of sorts, and used the pen tool to cut out a sparkly Blue solid color in the shape of the E logo. The cool thing about the pen tool is that it creates a very detailed trace of what you want, so it was very simple to create the logo out of the sparkly pattern. After that was finished, I decided to take the logo back to Photoshop to add it to the poster. I overlaid the E on top of the poster so it was the most prominent. I changed the opacity, however, so that the photos behind it were not lost. 

I sat there looking at my poster and realized that the strands that were written in one picture, were too dark to be seen, so I hid the E and used the text tool to write in the words in a white type so they would be visible. I altered the opacity so they wouldn't be too bright, and then, to be sure that everything was clean enough, i went back to the original picture and used the clone tool to erase the original words so that the slight variation between them and the new, more visible font, would not clash. I reapplied the E and looked at the near-finished product. The only thing missing was the slogan. After thinking about it for a little while, I decided that an appropriate slogan would be, "Beginning with the end in mind." It speaks to the fact that e-Communication is a college level program that is here to help young students realize their potential, and to help them decide what their career could be. It is here to help students plan their future.