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Lauren Moran Graphic Design June 3 2018 Mrs. Bjork

For our final unit I created an infographic for my climent Ms. Budde. She needed a infographic for her successful forensic team. She wanted a creative and well organized graphic that helps promote the forests team here at PHS and show fellow students the benefits of forensics. With this request I organized information Ms. Budde gave me and organized it into a pleasing format. I chose to incorporate a picture of the current forensics team, a podium to help represent speaking, and the capital of Madison to represent how this is a cool opportunity for students to get involved in. Ms. Budde explained how she had interest in including a photo of the students. One because they compete latter in the year and don’t always make it in the yearbook, and second this infographic will be viewed printed and in her room and also a digital/mobile way. This infographic is neat and includes clean lines. I incorporated relevant illustrations to connect with what forensics is about. I stuck with the same colors of the WHSFA logo. And used the red, blacks and white throughout the text and design. I thought these colors should pop so I added a light blue background. This gave the three stranded colors a different look and went well together. Throughout this infographic I used line to create a border around word boxes. color, and shape when creating the podium and capital. I have contrast if the color choice. And emphasis on the forensics logo. These elements and principles are effective in this infographic because the all come together making a organized but fun visual. I feel success with the color plate and the illustrations. My understanding of an infographic is visual data. Me. Budde have information that was not easy to play round with form a illustrations standpoint therefore I feel I did well working with what was needed. I feel I could impose upon added more information, I lacked this because I felt if I added more the graphic would look boxy and too busy to read.

Looking back on this year of graphic design and everything that I have created I have realized that I enjoy graphic design and think I can do better. The most helpful thing I have learned from this experience was knowing when you have a real job you don’t get to pick your clients and some projects won’t be as thought out or easy to create a design for. I knew this from the start but getting to have real life clients and examples of the different types of projects we got to design was good for me too see how I can take someone’s needs and put it into a creative visual. Looking at my shape project to where I am now I remember not knowing how illustrator works and just starting to figure out how to use the app. Now I feel way more familiar with the app and it had been easier for me to create more complex pieces of art and grow as an artist. Overall this class has given me a good experience and feel of what graphic design is and what kinds of types there are.