Tutorial Afternoon.

we started the day off, by learning how to use adobe illustrator to create a logo for our own name, we were able to create basic designs or even very grand and elaborate designs. 

When it came to me creating my logo, I felt that I wanted something simple yet bold and eye catching.

This is my logo:

I achieved my logo by setting the path to be in a simple arch shape, I chose the billboard font; i chose both of those options as I wanted something simple and easy to read, because what is the point in having a logo if you cannot even read it although reflecting back on my logo, I really wish if i were to approach this task again I would make the colour brighter and possibly highlight the first letters of each name.

Next we went to work on Photoshop, we were taught about layers and the magic wand tool and how to remove something from its background from a secondary image or even your own image.

after the tutorial was over we had to picture what our lives would be like in 10 years time, again like my logo, I didn't wish to take the brief so seriously, however I did really want to highlight the things I love currently in my life today and this is what I came up with. 

I had the main focus of the image, a photo of me and my boyfriend of 4 years on Brighton beach with a French bulldog, and however its when you look in the background where you see where i have in putted the things i adore currently as an 18 year old and who is to say that in 2023 as a 28 year old I would like the things i have put in above. I included; 

• Darren Criss playing a guitar and i purposely chose that photo and put it into the distant background as it looks like he is setting up to busk.
• I placed Shermar Moore and Matthew Gray Gubler from Criminal Minds on the walk way, and after looking back on my work i realised that the proportions of them compared to everything were wrong, and if it were in real life that they would be 8 feet tall
• I also enjoy comic books, my favourite being Harley Quinn from batman so I felt it necessary that I include them in here, although as they are clearly a cartoon it makes the overall atmosphere less realistic.

if i were to redo all this, I would make the things i have imputed into the background more forward, I would work heavily on the scale and making sure that it was realistic, i would also fine tune the outlines, the shadows and work on making the picture less "flat".

After Lunch we proceeded with using inDesign, previously, i had never used inDesign before so i set off with making my personal poster very simple at first.

I chose to use the colour of my logo the background, i also used the same font from my logo for the text in the poster, I aimed for a minimalistic poster in that the text was the main focus.
For the text, I wrote down all the things that i like and then used them to create a pattern of things to make the poster. I highlighted my most favourite things by making the size of the word bigger, and throughout this process i found out that the placement of the words were integral to the design and from this point, i felt comfortable enough with inDesign to move onto my next poster.









For my poster, I felt that it was needed that I incorporate the logo that i made earlier, thinking about a background I thought i would take the work that i did previously of words that summarise me and have the text repeated black on white, the next step was to place my both photoshoped images onto the background, after this happened i felt that the images were falling into the background and losing their shape, so because of this I aligned the font so that there would be a white border separating the picture and the font but still keeping the background unaffected. This was an easier method than if i were to make the poster on Photoshop or any other software.

My Final Poster:

This session was very helpful, i was able to use software i had never used before but also had the chance to improve and fine tune my skills on other software; with the skills that i learnt on this day i hope to progress further along the pathways.