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Book Report: The Complete Guide to Digital Graphic Design

My teacher gave everyone in class a book assignment to find books in your local library/bookstore that give way to intellectual design in your own work, a book report of sorts. I got two books, from half-price books. But I liked one, more than the other. The one I liked is called The Complete Guide to Digital Graphic Design. For $6-$8? You can't really go wrong. I really like both books, even though I just got them. They're colorful and have both Digital and Illustrated design, and the type formatting of both books, is wonderful. But I like the organization of The Complete Guide to Digital Graphic Design. 

The pages are colorful, and have two-to-three-dimensional design. It showcases some of the best practitioners in the field of print, exhibitions design, advertising, signage, packaging, multimedia, and the Web. Provides in-depth information on design basics like type, color, and images, technical issues that designers today face, hands you stunning examples of design graphics from around the world. This book is ideal for those who are not only studying graphic design, but for those of whom are already in the field. It is beautifully illustrated and provides a very sound introduction to the very modern graphic design(er).

Finished~

Finished my brochure. My graphic teacher wanted me to put back in Millennium Park & Navy Pier, but they're not really a 'state' park. Millennium park is just a park and Navy Pier is like a playground. So I put in one more State Park, called White Pines.

TIMBER!

So, my gradeschool art teacher lives at the end of my courtyard (ie. 2 houses down) and for the 10 years I've lived here, they've had a gorgeous tree in their front yard. Well, no longer. They chopped it down because it was rotting in the middle - it would have fallen on it's own eventually but I'm gonna miss it. :( The courtyard does look sunnier though...

Ugh...

So, this kinda sucks. I had to re-do my whole travel brochure because my (bleeping) PC decided it didn't want to transfer over to a PDF file in order for me to be 'done' with my project. UGH. I wanted to throw it at a wall, but I got everything fixed, even though I had to redo it. I'm happy with this one, because I just decided to do State Parks, Instead of 'Travel Chicago'. Narrowed it down. All the colors match better now, too.

t r a v e l . b r o c h u r e

Started on my travel brochure for my graphics class. i think it's started off pretty well. I love, love LOVE the blurred composition, and how bright the fountain looks.