Lauara Coronell Newsletter Article Review

Suggestions
The beginning of your article should have something to catch the readers attention.
Perhaps the date of the event can come up first. There are some grammatical errors that
do need to be revised.

When writing your article you should keep in mind that the article shouldn't be opinionated.
Try to keep personal opinions,such as "Students that participate in this event are very talented"
Try to keep factual and informational.

Another thing to be cautious of is don't be so redundant. If you are running out of things to say
simply move onto to another aspect of the event. At the same time keep straight to the point,and  keep the reader entertained.

Ending strong is also a very important part of writing a newsletter.

Adobe Illustrator Done

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-illustrator-cs5/getting-started-gs-what-is-illustrator-cs5

This video demonstrates the benefits of Adobe Illustrator. Specifically the aid it has to offer in creating graphics. The array of tools that you can use to express your creativity. From this I learned that I can use this in creating graphics for my newsletter.

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-illustrator-cs5/gs04-creating-files-for-print

This video demonstrates changing the values to set up for printing in Adobe Illustrator. These can help me choose which setup to use when printing my newsletter. Helping me choose whether to choose bleed or not. Adjusting these values can help me choose the quality of my print

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Ivan & Gene Brochure Reflection

After reviewing Ivan’s brochure on NYJIUJITSU I have made many observations. One major thing to start off  with would be the cover of course. The cover page was able to include all the proper information. The only one thing that was an eye sore was the distance between the logo and “Manhattan Dojo”. This can be easily fixed by moving up the words or centering the logo between  “American Jiu-Jitsu” and “Manhattan Dojo”. The black curve is great, but the color of the brochure wasn’t appealing to me. As for the interior, the typography was on point. One tiny hiccup that I noticed was that between headers and text there was no space. Adding spacing increases the importance of the header and draws attention To conclude, Ivan’s brochure was very organized and has an abundance of information.

After reviewing Gene’s brochure on NYCINKMASTERS. I have made many observations. The cover page has a lot of white space. Another flaw would be that “Nyc Ink Masters: is repeated at the top and bottom of the page. The order of the panels are also jumbled around. These are all minor flaws, therefore they are easy fixes. For example, deletion of the repeated words, adding some color in the background, and reorganizing the panels. On the bright side the pictures aren’t stretched. As for the interior, there is an abundance of whitespace. Adding a sort of collage would have been a great idea. Also adding background information on the shop would help fill the space.

Interactive Brochure Reflection

After watching the video about interactive brochures I learned techniques that I

could potentially use. I would use the animation on areas that I want the viewer

to see immediately. It can be used to have your brochure grab attention. Knowing

about this feature helps me so that I can place videos where I think would catch attention.

I would then have to plan out the timing of the animations if I were to add any. The client

would be very surprised having this in the brochure. It would most likely be something new 

to them. 

Portfolios Reflection

    So,in my Visual Design class I created my e-portfolios. These portfolios are used to showcase all of my work that I have done to show to others. These portfolios are mainly targeted at colleges or jobs that look in the design field, but these aren't the only things you can use it for. You could use the portfolios as a reference to yourself. A reference to look back at how your work has progressed over the years and to remember the goal of those works.I personally find e-portfolios very easy to read my own works instead of a folder of clutter.
    I created my portfolio in Adobe Acrobat. Adobe Acrobat has a function under File-> Create new portfolio. The portfolio consisted of a path of folders and files within the folders and so on. The folders and files were labeled appropriately in chronological order. Labeling the folders and files correctly really helped with navigation. Along with each Project/Lab that I have done,I combined the actual work with narratives to go along with it. Narratives help the reader understand the goal of the project.This is how I created my own portfolio.
   Streamlining the file size is an important part to e-portfolios.The reason behind this is that the person you want to be looking at your work wouldn't want to download a portfolio that is 1GB in size. I used techniques that I learned to trim down the file sizes of my work. Firstly, I saved each file as the lowest file size under the save option in Photoshop CS5. I only did these for the graphical works that I have. As for InDesign files I just saved as a PDF since the file size is already streamlined. Another way to shrink file sizes of graphical works would be to save the work as a JPG then save as a PDF file. This method could easily shrink a 10MB file down to 343K.
  My portfolio isn't perfect, but it gives an idea of the work I've done so far. I say my portfolio isn't perfect because there is always things that I have done in the past that I need to add to it. Things such as work away from school and so on. Improvements are always available when creating a portfolio,for example, although I might have most of the work that I have done there will always be something I have forgotten to add. This is because of the quantitative accumulation of work over the past year and a half. In any case as I said my portfolio gives a vivid idea of the work I've done so far

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