31188a – Progress Challenge 03

By Colleen Sedgwick

eNewsletter design

Required

• Design an eNewsletter utilising the information that you have produced in the previous two parts.

• The article that you have written in part A will be the content of the newsletter.

• The title of it will be ‘TYPE’, and the letters will be created out of the selection of letters that you have photographed in part B.

• Start by sketching out ideas, and once you have experimented move to using your choice of technology.

• We recommend InDesign to layout your work and manipulate typography in this exercise.

• You will be assessed on how well you can integrate the title ‘TYPE’ with the rest of the copy as well as the overall design.

For that reason, you are required to add other elements such as shape, colour and photos where necessary.

• Dimensions: 600 pixels wide, 600 pixels height (minimum)

• Colour: RGB

• Resolution: 72-144dpi

• Format: JPEG

NOTE: You will be able to integrate feedback from discussions and self-check submission, for integration into Assessment 3 Part C.

Answer

While the original colour of my type is a powder pink, I decided to convert it all to black and white so it could be more easily incorporated into a newspaper look.

Here are is a photomontage of the letterforms I have created from the tile layout.

Properly refined, it would probably look like this:

However, I decided to keep the photographic image and, in keeping with the ‘newspaper’ look, I used a newsprint filter so it would look like this:

And with a little colour, it might look like this:

For the overall design, I have sketched out three styles:

Style 1

Style 2:

Style 3

 Here are two refined versions using InDesign.