S. Robinson - Graphic Designer

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Babyshower Best Wishes and Guestbook

I am having a baby shower in 6 days. Last night I stayed up working on a babyshower guest book (took me a total of 6 hours to do!!) The size 5.5"x5.5"

I wanted to make something of my own, something I knew was different from retail guestbooks, but also something that I knew I would personally like in it. So I thought of a layout plan on paper, and recreated it. The items used to make this was:

scrapbooking paper
a picture of my hands on my belly that was printed out on regular printer paper in black and white
black core board
Bristol board paper
adhesive
binding thread and needle
metal ruler
exacto knife for cutting
a bone folder
fine tip drawing marker
sandpaper

Cover of Guestbook

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Firt Page- Envelope to store written Wishes and Thoughts for mom and baby on pieces of paper

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Guests section for guests to sign- this is on 3 pages

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What the inside looks like

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Final pages are the "Gifts" area where we can record gifts and who they were from. This is easy to refer back to when sending thank you cards, and kept more formally than just with a piece of notebook paper. There are 3 pages for this.

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backside of book

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Monday, May 2, 2011

Zine

Final Project for Design and Illustration-a "How To" zine. Mine was "How to Get Out of a Bad Date, Tips for Men and Women." The zine had saddle stitch binding, and was colored with permanent marker and scrapbooking ink. The aged look was used by my distressing kit to give it texture. The image used was from googleimages.com. The ideas inside on how to get out of a bad date were from people around campus that I asked to come up with crazy ideas on what they might do to get out of a bad date. Combining my favorites that were recorded, I put together a short zine for men and women to use.

COVER PAGE

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ONE SPREAD INSIDE

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LAST PAGE

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BACK

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Image used from googleimages.com

ORIGINAL

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EDITED IN PHOTOSHOP FOR FINAL PICTURE USED IN ZINE

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Monday, April 18, 2011

Poster/Flyer I made for Community Health Centers of Southern Iowa for National Women's Health Week!

From UCM Art Portfolio by Stephanie Robinson

Monday, March 28, 2011

Infograph Project Idea

Our next assignment is to show two different types of information, related or not related, using pictures. My two data collections were how many kisses I got from my husband during Spring Break (Monday the 21st thru Friday the 25th), and Heartburn-- (the time I got heartburn to the time it stopped by taking heartburn meds) by using actual time it started, time I took the medicine, and the time the heartburn went away.
Some of the Infographs I found that I liked are below:

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Here is my Final Infographic project. It shows heartburn duration and how many kisses I got from my husband in 5 days

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Poster Project

For this poster, I was initially inspired to have ice cream be the main idea by my Communication Arts Magazine 2011 January/February Typography Annual 1 page 175, where I found ice cream that had different label types. I liked the packaging style, which was somewhat old fashioned but yet current.
My hand drawn elements were tracing the words "since 1752" from a font found on Photoshop, as well as tracing the outline of the picture I scanned in from Good Housekeeping from 1962 Jan-June issue, page 96. The background of my poster has all the different flavors of ice cream that you can find at http://www.coldstonecreamery.com/ as well as http://www.baskinrobbins.com/. I combined what the two ice cream places had to offer, and used photoshop to type in the flavors I chose out of their menus.
The ice cream cone that the little girl is holding was copied from images searched on http://www.google.com/images, using the the search term "ice cream cone" making the images I find 2MP or larger.
The year 1752 is a made up year, but it is using numbers I like most that looked good together, and would also not be too skewed to make someone think it was not a true date that ice cream was invented. Another book I used for some ideas of styles and layouts is called Typography : the annual of the Type Directors Club. no.30, Author listed as Type Directors Club (U.S.)found on page 289.