Capstone

I decided I would create an info panel for my typographic animals from Typography. I think they would help with kids to be able to identify the creatures of the sea and give them some fun facts to go along with them to entice them to learn more about that specific creature. I started out with my normal 3 from Typography: Pufferfish, jellyfish, and the angler fish.

Typography submission

First I sketched out a new guys to go along with the new adventure

And then began to lay them all out for an info panel display:

I knew I wanted to do a darker background for the angler fish since he is an actual bottom dweller of the ocean, so I had already went ahead and added a dark blue background and changed the font color to white. I added a light to her lamp (females are the only ones with the lamps as seen in the info for her), and added some color to the teeth. All colors used from the Pantone color book on Illustrator.

Once that was done, I still thought the rest and the angler were all too plain, so I began to play with more color, and ultimately began to create coral for all of them.

I feel I can do more, and need to especially for the angler cause she is hard to see. I'm wondering if I should color each one a different color other than black or keep it black. I want this to attract young eyes to look at and learn a thing or two so I feel color is necessary.

(Note: I apologize for the lack of screenshots in advance. I will make up for it in the next project submission)

My first project for my portfolio is my E-Pub from InDesign that I did in 2017. I was a little rusty when it came to InDesign, but thankfully it was like riding a bike and I quickly managed to remember how to use it. The difference in then and now is, I knew Illustrator this go around and I was able to do more with that versus when I took the class.

First draft of E-Pub (2017)

I needed to change the font, color, and overall title board of the e-pub, as well as fix the spacing and design of the paragraphs of the information of the wines.

Title Page

Original Title Screen

The color scheme I went originally was darker -- like a red wine type color scheme and a little too much in terms of font selection (It's way too fancy)

New Title Screen

In this updated version, I did a lighter color gradient versus that overly dramatic, in your face, dark purple mood. Sure, wine can be dramatic, but I feel this is more welcoming. I may change it to a lighter gradient..time will tell.
I also created an Icon to go with the title screen versus the photo of a wine bottle. and used the font Baskerville in a regular and semi-bold for the title.

Original 2nd page

The font! ACK! What was I thinking!? That was the first thing to go in all of these. I also edited the photo (right) in photoshop to make it less yellowy. The wine bottle (bottom left) animates and I actually still love that. Fixed the paragraph layout and some of the wording and I called it good.

New and improved(?)

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Original Page 3

Revised Page 3

Original Page 4

Revised Page 4

Original Page 5

Revised Page 5

Original Page 6

Revised Page 6

If you notice, some of the sentences are not on the page or they are slightly off, that is because they have animation attached to them. Please refer to the link below for the revised E-Pub to see demo.

Revised E-Pub 1-29-20

Edit/February

Went back to the original layout, edited the wine bottle from the title screen, removed bullets, and enhanced the links folder with buttons you can roll over.