Bristol House of Pizza - Mock Website Homepage

Bristol House of Pizza Brochure

For the brochure assignment, Kyle and I chose to do Bristol House of Pizza. Bristol House is a local restaurant that we both order take-out from on a regular basis. The restaurant's actual brochure is very plain, so we decided to create our own brochure for the best pizza place in Bristol. The ultimate goal was to create something that caught the eye of possible customers.

The most challenging part of this assignment was the program. For me, InDesign is not "user friendly" and was difficult to adjust to. Everything I wanted to do seemed more difficult to accomplish on this program. Adding a gradient, for example, required a bit of experimenting and trials to finally get the desired colors and effect.

Overall, I am very happy with the way the brochure came out. It is very crisp, clean and the end result fulfills its purpose of being a take-out menu. The colors work well together, and you definitely understand that it is an Italian restaurant/pizza place. I especially like the drop shadow on the photos. Something about this effect is really pleasing to the eye and adds a little extra something.

If Kyle and I had had more time to work on this project, I probably would have wanted to try different font combinations and worked with placement of menu items and photos. It is always fun to try different things because you never know what might turn into something cool.

Chrisitna Aguilera Concert Poster

My goal for this project was to make a concert poster that was eye-catching and bold. I was familiar with Quark prior to the assignment and wanted to utilize my knowledge to make something very cool.

For the concert poster, I wanted to represent a popular artist. I knew that if I chose someone well-known, I would be able to find a high resolution photo to use for the poster. I chose Christina Aguilera because she is a favorite of mine and has a new album coming out. I figured that she might be doing a promotional concert and wanted to create something that her PR Reps might use.

The most challenging part of this project was not over-doing it. I was able to complete the poster rather quickly and then started to knit-pick. I found it difficult not to second guess myself on small decisions like whether or not to use the album cover art for the opening act (Ladytron) and whether or not to underline "Christina Aguilera." In the end, I took a step away from the computer and decided that I was perfectly happy with my result.

The aspects of the poster that I am most proud of is my image and color scheme. The photo of Christina Aguilera is really sharp. I also think that only using half of her face is outside of the norm and makes the poster interesting. Also, the black and white contrast catches the eye. Combined with a red accent color (that plays off of the lipstick color in the image), everything goes together.

If I'd had more time to do this assignment, I might have played around with color choices and different images of the artist. Overall, I found this to be a really fun assignment that played off of my creativity and would love to do a concert poster for another band or singer.