Designs I'm Fond of

I liked this brochure's design because it is simple yet effective (and you know how easy simple designs are). I'm a fan of the portrait style layout. It's very pretty.

... I'm a woman, you were expecting something deeper?

Work Reflection

I have the barest of information typed out. All that's left is making it pretty. It should be no problem.

1st six Weeks Reflection

Macs. What can I say about them? I loathe everything about them. You can't open them up to add better hardware, you can't use any other OS other than Apple on them, they just are not pleasant in general. I forgot that the former teacher in an "awesome" display of generosity decided to replace the PC's with Macs. Thank you sir, for making us poor PC users feel disoriented. The software is exactly the same as Microsoft's. Connecting to the Internet is confusing and harder than it needs to be. If you, dear reader, could see me, I would be twitching and frothing at the mouth as I type, such is my hatred of the horrible Apple machine.

(Don't get me wrong, I still like the iPod, but I digress.)

Anyway, I learned how to use Pages, a word processing software by Apple. I learned hoe to use that Photobooth thing that everyone is so excited about, and I also learned that blogging is much simpler now than it used to be. I remember the days when you had to hand type your CSS (because it made things prettier than HTML) and code that page yourself. </mutterings of an old woman>

Brochures I like and Reflections

I like this one by "La-a" because it has a color scheme that is associated with it's country. Also, it's Italy which is awesome in itself.

There's also this brochure that I like because there is the feel of it being egyptian, which I assume is the point. Not sure what the scribblies are for,but whatever works is cool, man.

Oh-em-gee this one has Borat in it which makes it second to the Italian one. It's actually well designed as well.

Reflections: Urgh, I'm sorry to say I did not get very much done, I had a killer headache the entire day and my mind was just not there at all. My only hope is to double production next class. I did manage to kinda gather information from the Scotland official webpage.

Rubric Self Grade

General - 2
Cover - 4
Table of Contents - 4
Work Log - 1
Bibliography - 3
Bibliography, Citations - 0
Professionalism - 4

Brochure Step One

Alright then, here is the first step. There will be more on the way, of course.

I've had generally few difficulties, other than, er, occasionally getting off task. Truthfully, the hardest part of this project is the reflections, because I never know what to write. Addressing that, I guess, would be to turn this into word-vomit and type everything going through my head and catching myself when my mind wanders. I've learned that I have problems being an adequate blogger and that music does actually help me focus.

Sketch Plan

So this is the inside of the brochure.

And that's the outside.

I think I got a lot accomplished. I planned the brochure, cited some of the websites, and made-up stuff I missed from last class. I didn't realize that the Photobooth procedure was mandatory. Oops. Oh well.