Response: Week ONE

Today in class we got to help with the contest and that was a pretty awesome experience. Not only did I enjoy getting to help with something like that but I enjoyed seeing the variety in design between the publications and how much freedom they have with their designs. I was unaware of some of the city magazines and how much you could do for them. The typography on some of the designs absolutely blew me away. 

I am satisfied with the choice that won but not thrilled. I think it was a nice design and got the idea across but I thought there were others, such as the second-place choices, that were more thought out in their design ideas and how they executed them. 

As far as class discussion goes, I agree with Jan about the car covers in that the resources that were provided combined with a short amount of time made it difficult to put together a clean, well-executed cover design that was comprehensive. I really enjoyed the doll cover and think that if there had been maybe one more element it would have stood out as complete and worked really well. I also like the evolution of man cover but agree with Jan that caution might need to be taken to make sure that it applies to all men, not just straight men. I think the briefcase one was okay to leave in because that's how they ended the story but I think it would have worked better without the girl being proposed to. 

This was our first assignment and I think a lot of people, myself included will be working at a different level or within a different time frame for the second assignment because I heard a lot of people say things about what a short time this was done in. 

I'm just going to throw in my critique of the first two days in here too. We got a lot of assignments(for the future) thrown at us. I am very excited and nervous for the next few months. I think a lot of juggling and scheduling will be involved but I'm going to enjoy designing stuff besides feature and department layouts for Vox, which I think is an awesome opportunity. Just more stuff to pack our resumes with.