Carton Skills

For my carton design project, I was partnered with Julia and we created MelaTAN, which is a pill you can take to make yourself tanner.

Movie Poster

For my poster, I chose to do The Intern because it's a newly released movie and I feel like there's a lot of different elements I could use to create the effect I wanted. I feel like the font, the tie, and the briefcase really sums up the movie well without knowing what it's about.

Magazine Cover

This is my magazine cover, I chose to do dog fancy because I'm obsessed with my dog and I liked that pictures that turned out. My process included resizing the text and changing the colors in Illustrator and moving them over to inDesign to put all of the text and images together.

My Photo Composition Site

This is my Photo Composition site and in this site I stated all the rules of Photo Composition and took pictures to give an example of each rule. I really liked this project because I love photography and I got to find different spots within town that I've never come across before. I made a responsive version of this site, which is the last picture, and my Mac n' Cheese site is also responsive and I got to take another path for this tutorial then I did for my Mac n' Cheese site, which was really interesting. If I had to do anything different, I would look into different pictures for my header and spending more time on my header to make sure it matches my color scheme. What I really like about this site is the strokes on the sidebar, header, footer, and main because I think it gives a really cool effect throughout the site.

So what is responsive Web Design? Basically, having a responsive website just ensures that if you're using a tablet, mobile phone, or any other different sized screens, that your page will change to make it easier to see all your content, pictures, and other links. This is a very important process of making a website. When putting it together, you put a "media queries" in the top of your source code on all your pages so that it applies when you go to upload it to your server. Breakpoints occur when your making the page small and it gets to a certain size where your sidebar and images get small or move around your text. In my last screenshot, notice that my side bar goes to the bottom of the page.

I've also found a responsive website, and you can see that as I go smaller, the text starts getting smaller and the email request box is now stacked. I think they did a great job with keeping everything the same size so we can still see it and it's the same information.


Here's a link to my responsive Photo Composition site:
Photo Composition Site

Here's a link that goes back to my project page:
Ava's Index Page 

Touch of Fun Mock-Up Website

In this project we chose to screenshot a website of our choice and recreate it with a new topic and images using Adobe Illustrator. I chose this layout for my mockup website because it was simple yet it still gives the same amount of information as any other website. What I really liked about this website is how different it is compared to some other websites. If I could do something different next time, I would find pictures that have a different background color, like the original website, just to make it a little more modern and interesting.

Illustrator Projects

I made these 3 projects using Illustrator and Photoshop. During the first project (1st picture) I used the pen tool and made my own brush pattern to create different style lines and patterns.
The second project (2nd picture) We used the gradient mesh tool, and if I were to do this project again I would learn how to use that tool properly as well as the clipping mask and the direct select tool. We made our name look like a blueprint of a project and made different lines and arrows using shapes and made our names look more like a chalkboard.
The 3rd and final project (3rd picture) was my favorite. We got to create a mascot roly-poly icons using Illustrator and I really liked this project because you get to make cute little icons and I got to learn how to make a simple gradient shadow as well as how to make it look like a 3D object.

Past Present Future Website

During this project, I learned how to make individual slices in photoshop and then save them and put them in a div in dreamweaver to make it look good and work good. I really liked this project because we got to discover new ways to use our server on internet exploer and make it presentable for both macs and windows computers.

You can find my full site below:
Past Present Future Website