my "real" blog.

If anyone is interested, my "real" blog is at //sixfivesamurai.blogspot.com

Thanks again for all the great feedback this semester!

Final thoughts

Well, now that I'm finished with the final project I can reflect on the semester. I really enjoyed this class. The blogging played a large role in this, it was good to put our work up and hear back during the week as we worked. In other classes, I've been in critiques where no one says anything, or barely anything, and you end up with feedback from only the instructor. Selila has great feedback, of course, but it was good to hear what others thought and it's more comfortable a lot of the time expressing yourself in written form and in a somewhat more anonymous manner. Truthfully, I wish we did blogs in all design classes. Even without anyone else viewing the blog, it's valuable as an exercise in self-reflection.

Ad.

Here is a print ad that would run in the Sunday coupon supplement, based on an excellent suggestion Jenny made. Also, Jennifer had a good thought in a comment she made on my last post: maybe I am overusing the 'typewriter' type. In the case of this product, I think it can work to use that type for most of the packaging, since I am going for a bit of a home-made, DIY vibe. In this ad, I started out designing in the one font only but it did feel a bit undynamic. So, I tried something that I thought might complement the original type and the people's organic logo.



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Here is the backside of the coffee packaging; again, I mixed in Frutiger (a sans-serif typeface) to avoid overusing the typewriter typeface. Looking at it again, I may need to make adjustments to the green area so that the logo can be seen. Thoughts?