Doodle Two

Here is my second doodle project. I did a flyer for the Balboa Park Botanical Building. I went to visit Balboa Park for Spring Break and discovered the free botanical garden. I took over a hundred pictures of the flowers in the garden. I wish I could have added more images, but I wanted to keep it simple. I did find the Botanical building image online, my picture I took myself were not as perfect. I used another watermark from my Photoshop brushes. I used Felix Tilting for "Balboa Park", Century Gothic for the Information and the font Porcelain for "Botanical Building". I hope you have time to go visit the Botanical Building at Balboa Park!

Multi Page Project

Hallelujah:) I'm very thankful this project is finished, it was fun but very frustrating and challenging. I would have to agree with Nathan on understanding the use of pages and sections. I had a tough time fitting all the text into this many pages. Once I got the layout figured out, I used the rest of the free time tweaking pictures, objects here and there to get the text to all fit. I started out with the first page text, still undecided on my design for the cover, TOC and back page, until I decided to keep it simple by using the rounded boxes with different types of strokes as my design since it was used for my campus location in all the pages. I played around with the effects making sure that my front cover, TOC and back text was legible. I also used Eurostile as one of my text because I thought it had the same shape as my rounded boxes and frames. As for the pictures, I used half from the ones I took of at the campus and the other half from random pictures I found online. I'm very proud of myself for starting on time and having all the extra days to go back and make changes to it. On to my doodle project!

Pre-press project

My design is about DVD guides to San Diego's best places to visit. It's geared mostly for tourists or locals interested in getting to know their city better. I've never been to Extraordinary Desserts but when I visited the website, the pictures made my mouth water! It was a hard and very detailed project. I ran into some problems with some images not showing on the PDF file, but I figured it out by playing around with the file sizes. Fun project, and very hands on!

Doodle One

I have my own in home daycare on Camp Pendleton and I thought it would be great to create a business card for my daycare. My daycare's name is Lucky Stars Daycare. I found this image of a painting in Dreamstime. The font Grenouille was found in dafont.com. The rest I used two different strokes and inner glow effect for the circles and used the eyedropper to match the deep blue onto the background of the card. I repeated the circular design in the back of the business card. This one was fun to make, and it took me roughly 1 1/2 hours to finish.

Images Exercise

Here is my Images Exercise, I really had fun but at the the same time it was a challenge getting all the requirements we needed to include in the project. I started out with a Martha Stewart table of contents layout, but had a hard time including the little details, so I started with a fresh new layout instead. I've learned my lesson starting projects so late in the week! Enjoy;)

Typesetting Exercise

Hello everyone, just re-posting my Typesetting Exercise. I could not figure out why I was not able to view my blog in the same page as my Introduction. So, I hope I fixed the error. Enjoy:)

~My Introduction~

Hello, my name is Mica Rica Jines. I am happy to say I have finally crawled out of my comfort zone in Child Development and have decided to continue on with my major in Graphic Designing. I started college fresh out of high school back in 1997 through 2001 majoring in Liberal Arts. I became pregnant the same year and have decided to set aside my education to become a full time mom. I was also in the middle of deciding whether I wanted to become an Elementary Teacher or a Graphic Artist. And so I chose the path to work in the Child Development field. I worked for a Child Development Center and later on opened my own in-home daycare aboard Marine Corp Base Camp Pendleton. I have had the opportunity to be able to raise my children and work from home. The longer I worked as a child care provider, the more I wanted to complete my education. I felt it was time for me to pursue and finish my degree in Graphic Designing. As much as I loved working with children, graphic designing has always been my true passion. I love art, graphic arts in general. Although I feel a little bit intimidated by all the "new" and "fast" technology, I hope to keep up! I'm blessed to have a wonderful supportive husband and two beautiful children that keep me on my toes daily. I look forward to learning, sharing thoughts, and ideas from my instructor and peers.