Magazine Cover

Design a magazine cover all about you. What makes you tick, what you like, anything. Just make sure to focus on photograph quality and using proper typography rules.

Prezi

Design a Prezi presentation to persuade a client that Prezi is a viable presentation software to use for an upcoming campaign. Choose a topic you are interest-ed in to create an instructional presentation with 10-15 frames. Topic ideas should be creative and interesting.

Photodesign

You are applying with a company looking for a photographer/designer who can use Photoshop well. You are asked to submit a full-bleed, 8.5 by 11, photodesign project that includes an original, new (since the activity) quality image, a consistent color scheme based on that image, some text, and a few design elements. Don’t forget the first step of the FOCUS process: FORMULATE A PLAN! Complete the “Message – Au-dience – Sketches” routine first. Next, choose a color scheme that will communicate the message to your audience.

Montage

You are working for a Christian non-profit organization and you’ve been asked to create a spiritual poster montage using images and type. You can use a scripture, a quote, a thought, whatever you choose, but it must be spiritual in nature. Choose two or more images. You may use your own photos or gather some from the internet since students are allowed rights to use internet images as long as it is for a school project only. Create this montage by using a layer mask to blend images, just as you did in the activity. Remember that montages have intermingled pixels and no hard edges.

Business Identity

The company you designed a logo for in 6C has now asked you to design a business card (front and back) and letterhead using the new logo. Re-search well-designed letterhead and business cards. Use the new logo to design consistent layouts and branding for a business card and letterhead.

Infographic

You have been gathering data on a trend-ing topic assigned by your project manager. Now, you will create any type of infographic to be shared on Pinterest as well as the com-pany’s blog.

Coding

A potential employer requests a web page to review. They’d like to see one of your logo designs with a description of the design process as well. Use your logo from the Business Identity Project to showcase and create a webpage layout (See examples above) using what you know about HTML and CSS.

Web Page Mockup

The CEO of your company asks you to create a web page layout for a new company website to communicate the executive com-mittee’s vision to the web developer. Your full color, high definition, accurate prototype will serve as the blueprint for the new website. The web developer has requested wireframe (aka: shape map) and a .psd with layers (Photoshop native document) based on the 960 web design grid for accurate sizing and precise coding.

Brochure

Your employer wants you to design a full-color, fold-ing brochure to help promote the company product, service or location. The purpose of your brochure may be informational or advertising. You may choose ANY topic. Make this something you enjoy.

Wedding Invitation

You are to design a classy, simplistic and elegant wedding invitation for a potential client.