Jenna

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Design interests

To be honest, I’m not entirely sure what I want to do with my life. Last year, I thought I wanted to be a cosmetologist, and this year I thought I wanted to continue doing graphic design like I did in high school. But now that it’s here, and I’m at college and have so many opportunities to change what I want to do with my life, I don’t know what I want anymore. That being said, I guess that I will just use this class to improve my skills in graphic design that I already have required in my four years of high school. Maybe in the end, I’ll graduate with a degree in graphic design, or maybe I’ll graduate with something completely different. Either way, this class will help me improve the knowledge I already have on the subject.

Brand and Identity Design
In high school, I mostly created logos for local businesses. We also made business cards and letter headers, etc, to go along with them. It was probably one of my favorite part of graphic design, most likely because I got the most practice with it. Logos have such a large impact on our society, and every large business wants to have their brand become huge, so designing logos are a very important part of graphic design. You know what brand something is when you see their logo, such as McDonalds, Facebook, Twitter, Wal-Mart, Target, etc.

I love the fact that something as simple as the Apple logo is so easily distinguished…

…yet at the same time you can see the Starbucks (or even the Patriots logo) logo and automatically realize what the brand is.

Advertising Design
Along with identity design in high school, we also created advertisements for local band concerts or plays happening in the area. In sophomore year, I created a poster for a festival that happens every year in Peterborough, NH called Children and the Arts, and it was chosen to be printed out and posted all over the state of New Hampshire and some of New England. My senior year, I created a poster for a school concert called Sail Away, and that was picked and placed all around our community.

One of my all time favorite ads is the old iPod ads that Apple has ever had. It’s simple but effective, and they put out multiple of them when they first came out.

Not to mention how we wouldn’t be the way we were today if it weren’t for advertisements like one of the most famous WWII propaganda posters, We Can Do It.