Nick St. Amour

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Design Interest

How I Got Started
I started getting into Graphic Design reading Japanese comic books as a kid. The creative illustrations on the front representing what the book would be about had young Nick going “whoa”. The way the layout was had me feeling like the publishers were breaking book limits. Instead of reading the book right to left you would read it the opposite way, left to right. Music is a big part of my life so album artwork is a factor on if I should buy a certain album or not. The way a good song can fit with a great design complements each other teasing both senses of hearing and seeing. It makes me feel good inside. This is all Graphic Design and I started in College when signing up for a random design class. The best part of Graphic Design is the way it’s all computer based. I was always on the computer as a kid, so I can learn how to work programs easy and have used media programs such as: Sony Vegas, Cubase, and Logic pro.

Publication Design
Magazines with flashy covers excite me. The cover page needs to have a big logo displaying what the name of the magazine is and what it represents as a company. Mini titles below are like little snippets of what is going to be showcased in magazines. I like how some magazine covers tell you what page the story starts on. The issue number I feel is also wicked important and makes me happy. The issue number will kindly help guide you to which month you need or already have, you never want to have the same magazine twice. Some issue numbers will stop at 12 and restart the order for the next year, or will keep going to see how many magazines have been made in total. Last they need to have the coolest picture in the entire magazine. If AP magazine didn’t an awesome photo of Fall Out Boy recreating the album art from their first album then I wouldn’t of read the story. The cover is definitely a great way to drag me into reading discovering a magazine.

Advertisement Design
Advertisements are awesome because the meaning can relate to recent events happening in our nation. One Advertisement online I looked into for an example was about the gun safety situation going on in America. It shows two children, one holding a banned piece of candy, the other a gun. Now what has my attention is that this organization is comparing banned chocolate eggs to guns in our children’s hands. This is smart advertising because it makes you realize what’s wrong or right in our country. I also find this picture of a little girl with a gun to be crazy, you don’t find a lot of kids with guns in magazines. Another advertisement that I like are the funny ones. Humor is always something that excites and gets me to want a certain product. Old Spice does the job and they create the weirdest designs for their models. In this example, the man smells so fresh, he is a snowy mountain of success all because of Old Spice. This just makes me laugh and want to buy their product. I want to smell as fresh as mountain man!