Assignment 8 - Design Brochure

For our final assignment we were asked to work with a few partners in a hypothetical firm and create portfolios for each of our studio projects. We had a review on Tuesday with some visiting professors and our teaching assistants. I partnered with Jonathan Chesley and Hannah Bryant in the firm "head in the clouds: Architecture". We each used a particular template, which incorporated a collage of clouds that Jon had used in his studio presentation, but we added our own style to the individual pamphlets and presented each of them in a nice, silver envelope. Below are the images that I used to showcase my building. Each file is a 7"x7" image that I printed out and attached with vellum to make an accordion style pamphlet.

It was a particularly tough assignment for us to complete, simply because it was the last one in a very, very long and difficult term. Fortunately, this assignment did make it clear how far we have come over the last couple of months. Despite having little time and enthusiasm, we put together a pretty nice presentation. Most of the work was already done because my entire studio project was presented with digitally generated images so it was just a process of dragging files from one place to another.

There were definitely some things we could have done better and we got some great feedback from our reviewers, but all things considered it was a good way to end the class. Over the span of the term we spent a lot of time using the Adobe Creative Suite, so making high quality, digital presentations is a much faster process. I personally have grown to love Illustrator, which is a great program for creating and adjusting images, as well as lining up text and using several boards at a time for layout. I used it throughout the final few weeks of the term, for projects and presentations in other classes, some of which I will show in the next post.