Holiday, but no excuses

I like the ideas of holidays because it’s a time to stop doing what you’re doing and spend time with people. Despite the issues surrounding Thanksgiving because it leads to the genocide of Native folks here in the United States, I do appreciate the sentiment of taking time to be thankful. However, like I said in an earlier post, I’m trying to write down 3 things that I grateful for as soon as I wake up and when I go to bed. I’m trying to train my brain to seek positivity because by doing so, positivity does come back to me in some way or form. It may not be the biggest thing or the most significant, but even being able to breathe is something that is positive.

Today, I’m grateful for:

1. A place to go for the holiday

2. That I woke up

3. Water

Originally, I had a few other things on my list such as a pleasant message from an old friend on my phone, but it’s nice to just think of the really fundamental things as things to not be taken for granted.

In short, there’s always time to do what you want to do. It’s not about having the time to do it - it’s about making time for it. If that means waking up a bit earlier, then I’ll sacrifice some sleep. Like one of my favorite skateboarders said, I really want to leave a mark. I don’t want to go through life half ass.

For these designs, the constraints were experimental

Week 7

Using all of the text provided, create a layout using an experimental constraint

Design 1

For this one, I really wanted to just cut up DZN on the page. To do so, I converted DZN into an object and used the divide tool to cut it at a spot where you can still read what the letter is. Next, I just aligned the copy left to match up with the D which made this design pretty clean.

Design 2

I tried to do something similar like the last Design by cutting the D and placing ZN inside of it. This could work for a logo, but I think this is still rudimentary at best. I tried to play around with doubles of “Features” and align everything on an access with this one. Not the strongest, but an interesting pathway to look into for me.

Design 3

For this one, I wanted to just focus on making one element really big and have everything else be really small in comparison. I think this would work if the magazine was just called D. Maybe next time what I can do is repeat the mast head as a smaller size and just have the D be that big. The ZN feels a bit misplaced unfortunately.

Design 4

Again, I just wanted the DZN to be the largest element on the page so that the eye goes directly to it. Pretty simple design, but I think what needs some fine tuning is the placement of the copy. I tried to align it logically with DZN. I think I did pretty well this time around, but definitely something to revisit.

Design 5

For this one, I wanted to use the Golden ratio to make this design. I think this would work if there were pictures in the places where there are blank squares. I based the layout off of the size of DZN. I think making DZN a bit smaller would help this design. The eye does go directly to DZN, but to make it a bit more interesting would be making it smaller.