COM 322: Communication Graphics

           This semester went by super fast for everyone. Things started slow but very abruptly during midterms, things got fast and didn't slow down until the end of CEP week (finals week for Buffalo State). However even if things went fast, the final products of the semester were anything but slapped together quickly. Each assignment had plenty of time to do and took multiple ideas and changes along every step to refine the design and idea. Starting with a flyer, this assignment was a topic that was swapped with another student so that students were creating something they weren't passionate about to prove that they can create something passionate that they in fact don't feel passionate about. The objective was to use three pantone colors and create something on a topic that was assigned. As it shows, this flyer is about decriminalizing marijuana across the parts of America that have it legal since marijuana is still being used to discriminately arrest an...

           This project called for four thumbnails, a portrait of oneself, and a company logo.         In the first thumbnail, the plan was to have an ink splatter, almost like water color in the background to be a darker backdrop to write on with the body copy and header being in white. The graphic underneath the name but above the header was something drawn before seeing how terrible of a graphic it was, leading into multiple attempts in developing a logo instead of filling the illustrator requirement with an ugly graphic. In the second thumbnail , the idea was to have more space for the name and header in case they were turned into a logo. The drawings to the left are just some doodles to mimic things someone might doodle inside a notebook as they do creative writing or some sort of writing in general. In the third thumbnail , the concept of having correcting edits to the left of the body copy, giving little pointers to sort of ...