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Stevie Ward Final Exam Statement Mrs. Bjork Graphic Design B3 19 January 2017

For our final exam, we had to create an infographic for a program at PHS. I chose the Literacy Program to create an infographic for. My concept was to create a book and learning themed infographic. For my composition, I just kept my images organized and the text next to the image it corresponds to, and used the core information from the Literacy Program presentation: vocab program, “The Greenhouse”, “Radvocates”, student resources, and the goals of the whole program. I used Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to create my infographic, and displayed my infographic in the class folder and on my wiki page. For this project, I used variety with my images that are displayed and the color for the banners of each section. I think it adds more interest and naturally leads the reader’s eye to the text after the images. I also used emphasis on the most important parts of the infographic; for example, the title is much larger than any other text on the project, and the center image is also much larger than any other image on the project. This communicates the important ideas to take away from the infographic after reading it. I feel successful with this project. I like how the images I drew turned out, and I like the typography I chose to use for text and headers. I think they all flow and fit well together. An improvement I could do is make the whole infographic a little less busy. I think this is because of the size of the text and the amount of it, so I would use less text and maybe make it a bit smaller. Otherwise, I am happy with how this project turned out. I think the most helpful thing I’ve learned from doing all of the projects in this class is how to create artwork digitally. Before this class, I’ve always done it by hand, so seeing how you can use a computer to make art makes me feel like I have new opportunities to make different art. I think my style of art evolved over the duration of the class. In the beginning, I used images with lots of texture and design and a lot going on, like for my shape project and some collages, but then I transitioned to more minimalist designs. My Delta logo and book cover are examples of this. For either of these projects, I could have created complex designs composition-wise, but I stuck with minimal compositions. 