Meme Project

Hello All! Today I'm debuting my meme as part of the class project for this week! I chose to use a picture of my good friend Taylor as part of the project because I felt that it was all to relevant and hilarious not to meme-ify! 

The Concept:

Basically, I created this meme after having way too many "hangry" conversations with my peers over the kiosks sometimes only having banana nut muffins in the morning. I mean c'mon, what's a gal gotta do to get a double chocolate chip muffin every morning?? 

The Method:

I added various layers to create the background and used the magic wand tool to take out just Taylor from the original image and insert her on top of the background. I also played around with the spot healing brush tool and the text effects to make it all come together perfectly. 

Conclusion:

So should we check our privilege? Probably, but I guess we'll just add this one to the extraordinarily long list of #HPUprobz. 

Swatch and Learn

Hello all! Sorry for the terrible pun made in the title, just trying to keep things entertaining! For this weeks assignment we are learning about creating different color tint swatches using InDesign! I was lucky enough to step outside at just the right time in order to snap a pic of the glorious sunset one night. 

The Muse:

I used this image as my inspiration for creating the swatches in today's post. Something about those orange and yellow hues just gives me the warm fuzzies. Ahh HPU at sunset, you never fail to leave me breathless. 

The Swatches: 

As previously mentioned, the orange and yellow hues of a sunset really get me going, so I absolutely could not leave those out! I also decided to create some swatches of the brown-ish hue coming from the clouds in the background. I thought they would complement the other shades nicely when making the nameplates! 

The Nameplates: 

I found this to be the most fun part of the assignment as I loved looking to see which colors would complement each other nicely! 

I chose my font based on the fact that it reminded my of the font that is generated when using a type-writer and I really liked the look of it. The secondary font I used for my headline was chosen because I felt that it gave the nameplate a more professional look when used with the type-writer font.  

I felt that the colors had very warm qualities to them which really attracted to them. Even the lighter tints still had some warm aspects to them which really attracted me to them. I know contrasting is important so I tried to pair up darker shades with lighter shades so reading the typeface would be easy on the eyes. I took more of a risk on the last one by using a light swatch as the base and an ultra light tint for the font - nevertheless I think it still turned out nicely. 

Concluding:

Overall I think the project turned out nicely, and I really enjoyed playing around with the tint swatch tools in InDesign. I can't wait to play around with them some more and use them on future projects! 

Best, 

Ally Pratapas