For the poster project, I had to develop a poster for an abroad class. I was fairly new to Adobe Illustrator so I kind of felt any designs I could make were weak so I focused on simplicity and contrast to text. I also prioritized the information given and how I would order it so each piece of information is understood. I put the factual info first; deadlines, costs, course names. The appeal content followed to give more contexts to what was already stated. Last was the contact information. This forms a very easy to follow step by step readability. I also tried to enlarge words that I thought would interest readers.

(Written two years after completion)

This was the first design project I did at St. Edward’s. Coming into this, I had no experience with Adobe Illustrator. I had only used it once in high school. This project was to create an image that depicted a sound. I chose “Klick Klick,” like a machine or a clock’s inner working. To depict it, I tried drawing things that made this sound, such as a robot, a mouse cursor, and a gear. Lorena stressed that we should try to be as minimal as possible in our work, which I wanted to be, but struggled with because of my inexperience with the program. In the end, I found my way back to minimalism by removing imagery and breaking up the word’s form, putting it into a way that suggested it “klicked” together to make the word.

Onomatopoeia Exercise

Onomatopoeia Exercise pt 2

Onomatopoeia Final PDF