Lesson 26

For my last post i only managed to complete the first page of my 2 page project. For my second page, i am doing a piece about three juices that help in weight loss.  So now here is my second page about a proper diet. And of course there is still work to be done with the touching up and the selection of fonts and colours. Furthermore out tutor mentioned that we should stick to our layout as much as possible and only do further changes after looking at the final outcome. So there may well be more changes.




















So starting at the top again there is the banner used in page one, this banner will be consistent between the two page layout.

Below it, the first paragraph, It is talking about the three juices for weight loss. It is the intro to the topic. The title is right beside it on the right. I made a typography poster to use as the title. These two parts were the ones that i was so tempted to change. To me it does not match up with the bottom part and seems out of place. However we were strictly told to stick to our layout so i will leave it for now until discussion with my tutor on improvements.

Below it is the main article, these are the three juices. So basically, i put a picture of the juice and the description beside it. For now, the colours i use are just to match up with their respective pictures and further discussions on colours and fonts will be made.

In conclusion, we are almost at the last hurdle, submission is coming soon and i have learnt so much creating this newsletter layout. There were a lot of challenges such as finding the relevant articles, resizing and editing the pictures to use, coming up with the relevant headlines and titles etc. As for indesign, it does seem to be simpler than using the softwares we have used earlier which was photoshop and illustrator, and it took me a much shorter time to get used to. After a fw edits my project will be done and my group will create common style sheet and compile our pieces together and hopefully get a good grade together as well.

Lesson 25

Our group project is due next week! The time really flies. So far for my project i am happy to say i am already halfway there. I managed to complete one page of my 2 page newsletter so i will talk about it awhile. Here is my first page. Note that the fonts and the pink colour may or may not be the final as i just used it to have a look at the layout.





















Starting right at the top, i made a banner out of a picture of fruits. What i did was trace out the shape i wanted for the banner using the pen tool, inverse select then delete the rest of the picture. A nice trick which i picked up from the e learning exercise we did.

The headline and sub header is using a font i downloaded called syntax. I did some research on fonts that are commonly used in health magazines and this was one of them.

The picture of the woman is used to show that between the apple and the cupcake, choose the apple and eat healthy, this fits in my theme of diet

On the left hand side of the page, in the pink box, that is the summary and overview of the article. I put it in a column to make it take up less space and be less boring that a summary must always be in the middle.

The 3 steps to eating healthy was taken from an article and rephrased to fit in the space by me. I thought this would be quite interesting as it is short and sufficient to get my points across.

The last paragraph at the bottom right corner will to talk about the food pyramid on the right and explain how and why it works.

Lesson 24

The project i am doing is currently underway and now it is time to get my articles, pictures and final layout together. With inspiration from my previous post with the good and bad layouts i gathered the pictures.

First of all, here is my final layout

















It is the same layout as the last layout of my earlier post in lesson 22 however in that post, i made a mistake by not dividing the modular grid to smaller boxes when drawing my layout on a single piece of A4 in a landscape manner. With a few changes this is the final layout after discussion with my tutor.

For the pictures these are what i have. For the page on the left, there are just two spaces where i intend to put a picture and on the right page, i intend to use four pictures.

Left Page: I plan to talk about diet as a whole. The importance of eating right and how it can affect you. This are the pictures i intend to use.













http://healthymaxs.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/guide-nutrition.jpg

http://www.richinfoods.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/healthy-eating-for-women-640x371.jpg

Right Page: For this page I intend to do something a bit more specific. I am doing a section on three "Wonder juices" that helps in weight loss





















http://worldfunfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Melon-Juice.jpeg

http://www.womenshealthmag.com/files/wh6_uploads/2014/07/29/collard-cooler.jpg




















http://www.womenshealthmag.com/files/wh6_uploads/2014/07/29/blakes-juice.jpg

http://farmtotablela.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/green-juice_0003.jpg

The progress so far has been steady for my project however i might be a little behind time. It was tough finding pictures to match with what i wanted and articles that are suitable but after awhile of searching i have them. Now that i have my pictures and relevant articles, it is time to finally move on to indesign
and put all this together.