Home page...website

My final project.  As I said, its a pipe dream of mine...a training center specializing in Nordic ( northern ) breeds, such as malamutes ( my breed).  One of the comments I got in our preliminary discussions was maybe using a bone to create a pattern for the background.  I really liked the idea..(thanks Theresa!) and went with that. 

My idea (which is also my pipe dream!) is a dog training facility offering all kinds of activities to do with your dog. I tend to like simple, easy to follow layouts so that is how I'll design my homepage.  My navigation buttons will be for the more well-known activities...obedience, conformation, etc.  Once I get started I'm sure I'll change some things around but this is the basic design.

Final e-card

 

Works cited:

http://www.mmsb.nl.ca/community-composting.asp

http://www.mofga.org/Portals/2/mof&g/JJA%2010/50-Fair-Compost-Sifting.jpg

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYRZMFZgoNGy1XG0YDMadhCCSAAOZcle-wfoz5QqFlMDsMH94SeRpCqiDyiu_nx8rZVspvKCpPbAaQEN27Hn2L04RbciHYduue6cHB94MJJGWkWoIkkTQJj_Maz2HUywADSkSe_vc9aJu9/s1600/Green+Grass+Wallpapers+1.jpg

http://www.utne.com/uploadedImages/utne/blogs/Wild_Green/UK-compost-pile.jpg?n=4184

http://www.blastnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/compost.jpg

 

Fonts:
Dafont.com

 

My sustainable idea is Community Composting, a practice gaining popularity both in the United States and in Canada.
The idea is that a municipality or local group provides a compost pile that can be used by members of the community.
My preliminary idea ( which may change...they all have so far!) is support composting as a personal choice, then as a community to "grow a health community", and then grow a healthy world.  I haven't decided exactly how I want to illustrate it yet, but the layout of the e-card will be like this:

This is my final book cover for Stevie Nicks.  I'm not thrilled about how it turned out as I was unable to figure out how to do a lace border around the edge and down the spine as I had hoped...sure would love it if anyone could tell me how I could have done that.  But here it is...

Works Cited:
http://www.buckinghamnicks.net/sn/snphotos/SNicksRTB02.html
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTCLvcfCuZ_gdBj3gR4LE9FdLBg-fVQX2yTSAWLFQvH4Lx4v57grDx326fbc7se3HCVxAxr-m13vppvVcKkdN6K7JbXD0uExRkGTdZjtVqNf18oQvAAQA1Xojh6wN5MKiw9y7LefTwuXzA/s1600/Stevie+Nicks+-+Bella+Donna+(1981).jpg&imgrefurl=http://swingville.blogspot.com/2012/04/stevie-nicks-bella-donna-1981.html&h=1404&w=1404&sz=242&tbnid=MNxLRM40bHPY3M:&tbnh=90&tbnw=90&zoom=1&usg=__Rmk0FBBZmKuUQSU_6EXqxye1OjM=&docid=zW_G2pWVpM077M&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_ZhYUZnEM-nY0QHlnoDoBw&ved=0CD4Q9QEwBA&dur=2175

Book cover - Part 1, Preliminary sketches

I am still "designing" in my head, but these are my preliminary ideas.  My book is going to be about Stevie Nicks, an iconic singer/songwriter from my era.  Her music, ideas and very presence were important to me and really are the musical backdrop of that period of my life.  My first sketch is just fonts...which somehow I think will be very important to capturing her magical essence. I will likely use that font to print her name down the spine.( if anyone can suggest I site I can download a fancy, spidery font like that I'd love to hear!)   I've then included a couple of pictures of her...but I'm not absolutely sure which ones will be on the finished product.  The first picture of her holding the cockatoo(from an album cover) I will definitely use, and what I'd like to do is have the roses and tamborine at the bottom bleed around the spine to the back. The picture of her will be to the left of the front cover to allow that to bleed around, which will also give me the right side for a title and additional verbage.  I have some ideas in mind for that. The second picture I may use on the back cover, or I may not.  There are SO MANY great pictures of her on the internet that I will probably see how this "evolves" before I decide on which one.  I also have this idea ( and its probably way too ambitious of me given my rudimentary Photoshop skills) of trying to do a black lacy type of boundary around the cover, or maybe even as a transparent layer.  Again...we'll see how it evolves and what I can do. The background of the entire cover will be dark, probably with the fonts being white.

LOVE to hear any feedback on this...I'd really like to do a good job! Thanks...

Social Awareness Poster

My final awareness posted ended up being different than my original sketch.  I played around with some effects, 3D, trying to do a foreground/background type of concept and in the end, decided to keep it clean and stark.  The phrasing on the poster also follows that theme, and I think it conveys the message I had hoped.

Works cited:

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ma5vwvwm3P1qaqk32.jpg (Disney scene)

http://drmark1961.hubpages.com/hub/Buy-A-Puppy-Online-And-Support-Your-Local-Puppy-Mill#slide7489509 (blue - eyed puppy)