Cover Page - logo from previous branding project from the Graphic Design Principles DeCal. Uses the white negative space to make a bit more sense of the shape of the logo. Perhaps emphasizes the "Pacman" shape of the G-representation a bit much. Blocky font with script font as a subheader. Navy blue to contrast the red-orange hue of the background - to set the stage for the theme of the rest of the portfolio.

About Page - need to update picture. Isn't the best picture. Picture in circle and logo repeated right next to the picture. Spongebob reference is silly, and might be a bit much, but I might also be a bit much, so I think it works out alright. Simple, thin, sans serif font on relatively "darker" background to exude lightheartedness, especially against contrast of serif bold font for title. 

 

I think the last paragraph could use a bit of work - the ellipses and hyphens are not quite doing it for me in the phrasing, and may be a bit too "quirky" and I don't like it as much, looking back.

Brought back the navy blue to the block serif font! Work previews positioned alright, though changing background is a bit distracting. Not sure how exactly to remedy it, as I was trying to keep a theme, but one that was not necessarily rigidly adhered to. Script fonts on previews may affect readability negatively. (Either through their thin-ness, or just the fact that they are script fonts)

Project Number One! Text was meant to automatically wrap around the photo, but I did not quite catch that it may not have been doing so correctly. (See first two lines, and how gap from top of the photo to, "to Photoshop and Illustrator" is larger than the hap between the right side of the photo, and any of the text there). It is distracting.

 

I do like the original album cover image as reference (and made smaller, too), as well as the script font for the title - indicates a sort of subtitle within the pages of the portfolio and what the block letters meant.

 

This orange is also, for ssome reason, different from the other oranges in most of the other slides. I am not sure why. That is something that also slipped by me, and which I did not check before submitting.

 

ALSO, PROOFREAD. "gometric" doesn't mean anything, except to a physics activist who strongly dislikes the imperial system.

The body text here was difficult to work in with the diagonal background composition. I remember making an effort, but spacing was still weird, and InDesign was picky. The rest seems fairly straightforward.

The only way I could think of to fill the space in the bottom right corner of the ducky triad, intersecting with the inverse diagonal background, was with another triangle. Strangely enough, I believe it works to fill the negative space and make it less distracting, at the cost of standing out from the other slides a little bit, and about which I did nothing in the other slides. 

 

The title at the bottom also works, as it is meant to be presented in a slide show fashion, rather than the vertical scrolling methods of Behancce, but the text spacing in this one is super wonky too. 

 

I find it hard to believe that I would have let this go through, to be honest. Either something happened in converting the pdf version of this to png, or I was not thinking very hard. the rest is alright.

The cats are a throwback to the Photoshop Review part of the DeCal, tbt.

 

Block and Script fonts work well again, color contrast is probably fine?

 

Tried to keep it relatively simple. I liked this slide.