Fast Travels

This is the design I did for the midterm. I wanted to design my home page to look like the Sun-Times with the blue but I also chose that color because blue is the color of the sky and even though my web page is about commuting, that essentially means travel. There are also travel ads on there, which I put, in order to "get away" from the daily commute. I wanted to make it look as real as possible, so I added the links for Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo!Mail, Blogspot and Google, though the links don't really work! My main story takes up most of the page, with the three toned pictures and their captions surrounding them. To the right, I have another major timely story with another picture I borrowed from the internet. I have two teasers under my main story that can be read further if you clicked the "see more" link. I borrowed the two travel ads from applevacations.com and funjetvacations.com. My logo is blue, matching with the color scheme, and it resembles different roads to me, which is why I chose this logo. I think it fits well with the design overall.

Student Commuters

I chose to do my project on the student commuters. Some of my pictures are shots with groups of people and some are individuals walking to the train station or away from it, to their destination. I chose this picture to tone because for a beginner, it gave me a lot to work with. The top picture is the one I toned and the bottom picture is the original.

The first thing I did was crop the picture. I focused only on the four commuters and cropped the other distractions out. I made the commuter in the red the center of the picture because her jacket was the most noticable so I also brightened that up a little bit more. In the top left hand corner, the school isn't really noticed in the picture that isn't cropped. It is distorted by the sun, so I toned a part of the school a bit darker and made it look more like a building. I also sharpened that up more to make the windows and lines of the building noticable. Also, the sky was really bright but it hadn't touched down in the city, so I toned the two green banners above the commuters just a little bit to make them stand out more.

Midwest Coffee Drinkers

For this design, I used the information I received and turned it into a graph to show it in a visual aspect. The map of the United States was given to us and with that, I used a variety of tones to differentiate the parts of the country with how much coffee they drink. I also made a list of all of the working professionals that need coffee to get through the day. Along with that, I created a graph with percentages and descriptions of how Midwestern people drink coffee.

Magazine Article

This was a magazine article that I replicated from Shape Magazine. I used the amount of volume given to make it look as similar as I could. There were many different planes that were used in this layout and I put them in the same place as the article. I matched the tones as closely as I could, and positioned the lines to match each other throughout the article, except where there weren't any lines. I believe that the rhythm of colors used in the article creates a positive space. The two blues in the pictures, the brown sand, and the brown background to the main article, and the greens are used well. The majority of the colors are tertiary and are working together.

I also found pictures as closely to the original article as I could, and used the same headlines to make it more authentic.

Warm Colors

This design was the same as my previous ones, but used in warmer colors. In the beginning, I was going to use a variety of warm colors to create a harmony in the space but I decided to stick with fall colors. This design creates a bit of balance because of the way the three colors I've used contrast throughout the piece with each other. On the left side, I focused more on the yellows and oranges, and on the left were more of the reds with some tones of orange. I used different tones and hues in all of the shapes to make a different color in each.