Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Assignment 01: Informational Book Review


• Beginnings
For this assignment I focused on the intensity of the strong works exemplified throughout this book. In doing so, I arranged the pieces in the Microsoft Power Point presentation by the sections outlined in the book. To do this, I pulled from the colors and layouts utilized by the original designer of the book. 


• Critique
Given the use of Power Point as an application, I feel a strong sense of accomplishment in this design as a whole. Throughout the presentation, there is a strong sense of unity in how the similarity within color and text is repeated in each representation of the chapters within the book. Also, there is an attention to detail that was followed when presenting the images pulled from the book. Each image was scanned in at a high resolution and brought down to be suitable for screen presentation.

However, the limitations of Power Point left me to decide to create layouts in Illustrator and then utilize a PDF format to display them. This turn, left a slightly less crisp look, although on screen is less obtrusive.