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Week 14

Assignment:
To finalize our website.

Craft:
The application iweb was used in order to create a simplistic website to display our magazine spreads.

Composition:
I wanted to create a website that was different from everyone else's. I believe that i accomplished this through the use of the shapes and inspector features. I created a unique website by using the stars and creating colors that tied in with my chosen colors for my website. I also found that the star can be given more rays. I took advantage of this and created an eight rayed star that looked like a sun. I added color to it in order to give it a fun feel. I chose blues, pinks, purples and black as my color scheme for the website.

Concept:
The concept was to create a unique website in order to display our magazine spreads. This is a technique that taught us how to distribute our artwork. This website is also a very good way to allow your name to become known in the public.

Week 13

Assignment: 

To finish up and order a final version of our magazine. 

Craft:

On monday there was a critique of the magazines as a class.  Then wednesday was an independent study day.  On wednesday I finished my cover and made the final adjustments to my magazine.

When on lulu I had to delete the previous pdf file of scribbles and replace it with the final version.  Also the cover was redone and therefore also had to be uploaded.  The cover was made in indesign but then in order to get the exact measurements for the magazine I transferred the document over into a photoshop pdf file.  

Composition:

All the compositions of layouts stayed the same.  The only composition that was drastically changed was the cover.  I enlarged Lincoln so that he took up most of the cover and was the first thing that is seen.  Then the names of the other artists were outlined in black and given a shadow so that they stood out when I over-layed them on Lincoln. These adjustments were created to give my cover more of a magazine feel. 

Concept:

The concept of my magazine has stayed the same. The concept of Scribbles is to have a colorful fun magazine that displays all my classmates' artwork.

Week 12

Assignment: This week was just focused on finalizing our cover and creating a website.  

 Craft:  The website was created using iphoto to make a slideshow of our magazine spreads as jpegs.  The actual website was created using iweb.

Composition: The website consists of 3 pages.  The first page is a welcome page to get people interested in the rest of the website. The second page is about the editor.  The last pages is a page consisting of a slideshow of my magazine's spreads.

Concept: The website is a tool that is being taught to us as a class in order advertise our work.  We are being taught various ways to distribute our work and a website was one of the ways to get our name known.  

Week 11

For this week the first draft of the magazine was sent to the publisher's.  This was done by saving the magazine as a pdf file.  Then that was uploaded to the new Lulu.com account. The cover had to be saved as a photoshop document in order to get the exact cover dimensions correct.  

Also for this week on wednesday the class started to create websites for their magazines.  This was done using iweb.  There were only two pages created. But all of our magazine was saved individually as spreads in the jpg form.  This website when it is finished was designed to create an outlet to advertise our work. This outlet is ultimately to get our name out there and have people purchase our work.  The 3 things that are going to be taught to help us create the website is: 1. image/text  2. link  3. posting content.