Process Blog

this is my process blog for my college experience as a graphic designer!

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February 22, 2019

Book Design

I’m happy to report that my book is coming along well! This week I drew the illustrations, traced over them, and inked them!  I also made a book dummy to practice the accordion style binding. This was also my first time making a hard cover book, so that was really cool! I find making books to be a very empowering experience... I love it a lot. My next steps are to scan everything, put it into indesign and start creating the final page layouts. I can’t wait to share the final product!

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February 22, 2019

Expanded Media

Recently in Expanded Media, we were assigned our first project! We were told that we can make a series consisting of five one-minute videos; the videos can be about anything, but they need to relate to each other in some way. The concept I chose is waiting and it encompasses themes of anticipation and monotony. I will post it for sure when it’s done! For now, have this film still.

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February 22, 2019

Intro

Hey guys! As you can tell, I've moved my blog from Adobe Spark to Tumblr. I think it’s better this way as I can have all of my posts on one page. Please expect more frequent posts from now on!

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February 9th, 2019

Book Design

In my Book Design class we are working on constructing an abecedarium. Mine is going to be a zine-like, accordion style book about the fear of failure. My fear of failure has been something I've been trying to process a lot lately. I've found that being afraid of failure often ends up being a source of motivation for me; I work hard because I don't want to fail. However, this is not a good source of motivation as it is negative in nature —I should be driven by wanting to create cool and innovative things and I should see failure as an opportunity to learn and become better. This project is allowing me to process these feelings while creating content that I feel reader's will be able to relate to as well. Pictured above is my process of defining all of my terms from A-Z.

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February 9th, 2019

Interactive II

In my Interactive Web Design class we've been working on creating a landing page for a non-profit organization's website. My group is researching the plastic bag pollution crisis and creating a landing page for an organization called Bye Bye Plastic Bags. This week was focused narrowing our long-term goal and how we can get users to fulfill our long-term goal through our landing page. I built a solution sketch for my landing page that shows users how plastic bag pollution impacts their community, what they can do to help, and provides a solution by talking about writing to legislation about the problem. The next steps I need to take for this project are refining my solution sketch and figuring what information is going to best benefit my final solution.

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February 9th, 2019

Expanded Media

This week in Expanded Media we made our first video! The video was made with the collection of random clips I took from the previous weekend. It was my first time using Adobe Premier and it's a new skill that I'm super excited to build on! You can watch the video below.

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February 9th, 2019

Branding Systems

I only had this class once this week because our Tuesday class got cancelled, but even so, I think that Thursday was a really good class. Right now we are working on expanding one of our previous logo designs into a full branding system. I'm doing mine on Paperbat, a 24-hour cafe and bookstore. Currently, I'm building pinterest boards for the mood and atmosphere of the brand, brand inspirations, and competitors. Narrowing the brand focus is proving to be a little more challenging than i thought, but it's a steady process and I feel like I'm learning a lot. I'm really excited to see where this project goes! This week I plan to continue narrowing my brand vision and defining the problem that needs to be solved in building the brand.

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Process Blog Intro

Hello everyone! My name is Kaitlyn Tostado. I am currently studying Communication Design at University and this is my process blog. I will use this space to document my progress on things I'm currently working on and to analyze what I could do better, etcetera. I am set to graduate in the Fall semester of this year (2019) so I'm reaching the end of my time here at college. Even so, I want to get in the habit of documenting my work so that I can look back at my work and see how it's come to fruition.