1. Assignment 9-4 Progression of Designs By Judson Birkel

2. Goal, Audience, Message Goal: Improve computer communication skills in those who feel computer illiterate. Audience: The “older” generation (40+). Message: Computers can help families connect more. Learn more at [posted website]

3. 1 st Try Wanted a “Bulletin Board” feel Wanted to provide a “connect across the world” feel And thus this (terrible) design was created:

5. Getting Somewhere In my next iteration I focused on: “personalizing” through emotion Alignment Adding color Getting my message worked out

7. Making it more interesting I then added a background, color (Analogous), and lots of contrast. This next design I played with a lot of things that I later found were kind of breaking the rules (angled text), but I felt it kinda worked here.

9. Type Focus My focus in my next piece was on getting my types to work in harmony with each other (rather than clashing). For my text I used a very bold Sans Serif (Impact) and an italicized oldstyle (Garmamond italic) I also wanted to try a vertical text (which I felt worked somewhat better than the angled text).

11. Final Design For my final design I: Went to a complimentary color scheme (Yellow and Purple) Changed my Triangle set of pictures to verticle And made everything look a little more organized.