Tuesday, April 27, 2010

BiBi Cards- Assignment #9






















The bibi c ard assignment was not so much difficult, as it was time consuming. The one shown above is my work done from Quarkxpress. I first picked a bibi card that was from the GQ magazine. I worked very hard on it but in the end I didn't think I was going to get a good grade on it. I changed my mind on which bibi card I wanted to do and my reasoning behind it was because I would rather do a slightly easier bibi card and get a good grade instead of not doing my best on the GQ bibi card and get a bad grade. I worked hard on both of the cards but the Harper's magazine bibi card was the one I decided to use. I think the stress of trying to get it perfect made it seem difficult.

Working on Quarkxpress and InDesign is not all that difficult if you pay attention to what it is your doing. I found that I like Quarkxpress more than InDesign because it's simpler to navigate around. Also since I am more familiar to Quarkxpress, the project came easier, in that sense. Indesign was the same as Quarkxpress, just different language. It was still difficult because I was not used to how everything looked on the screen compared to Quarkxpress where I could get a better sense of how it would print.

The part I had the most trouble on was the back side of the bibi card, the mail portion on Indesign. This was troubling because it was tough to get the bar code lines to match up perfectly. I think they came out good but I am a perfectionist and I want things to be perfect.

If I had more time I would have stuck with the GQ bibi card because it became a challenge and I like to accomplish hard tasks that I am not used to or have never done before. I would have also worked better in Indesign to better my skills in that program. The promo code did not come out exactly as that on the original bibi card, because of the spacing, but the rest is still identical (in my opinion).

I am most proud of my ability to work through the hardships of Indesign. Even though the card I created in Indesign did not come out exactly (one part), I still am proud of what I did and I think it looks awesome. I thought the colors would not match up but luckily, they came out just like I had wanted them to.

I am overall proud of myself to overcome the hard parts of this project. If everything came easy then I would not want to complete them for the simple fact I would be bored. I'm starting to see how much I enjoy doing projects such as the ones I have learned in this class and I can definitely see myself doing this as a career.

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