So one of the classes I'm taking this semester is Graphic Design II (I didn't end up doing the full minor, but I did take the introductory courses, because why not), and the first project assignment in it, which is due tomorrow, is to take a Famous Quotation from a list provided and develop a typographical poster for it.

By a strange coincidence, this is an assignment I've unwittingly been practicing for the last however many years.

Here's what I came up with.

(The printed version doesn't have those JPEG artifacts, or in fact any artifacts; I did it in Illustrator, so it's all vectors.)

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Ok, that is (imo, but I have taken at least a few design courses :) an excellent piece. I tend towards the more minimalistic in my design sensibilities, but even without that I think you've done a fantastic job of capturing the quote in a poster format. The halves are far enough apart, and the white text on black at the top is just overpowering enough to draw the eye in first, leave you wondering, and then the second half is just magic in design :)

Well played sir. So -very- well played.

That's beautiful!

Well done.

Okay, that's going into my keeper graphics folder.

-- Bob
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My race is pacifist and does not believe in war. We kill only out of personal spite.

The spec for the final project in Graphic Design II was, "Design and produce a book of at least 28 pages, using Adobe InDesign as your primary tool and other parts of the Creative Suite/Cloud as appropriate." I decided to make a pamphlet (in the old sense of "rather small book", rather than the modern glossy marketing folds which are more correctly called "brochures") out of my senior thesis, An Instinct for the Regrettable, which I wrote for last semester's Senior Seminar in History.

Here is a PDF of the finished product, in what's known as "designer spreads" (meaning you see the pages in the order in which you would read them in the finished product).

If you'd like to print your own, here is a version with the pages arranged for printing as a 2-up saddle-stitched booklet (technically this is known as "imposition"). You can print it yourself (if you don't have a duplexing printer it's a bit of a faff), or if you were to take that file to your local Staples or whatever-Kinko's-is-called-now or what have you, they should know what to do with it. For an effect similar to the ones I printed for the course, you want the cover done on 110lb white cover stock and the interior on either 24lb (standard weight copier/printer) or 26lb (slightly heavier, for a "premium" feel) white paper. Don't let the Staples guy upsell you to 28lb, it's too thick and the booklet doesn't fold completely flat.

ATTN Peter Eng, who asked me about it in the original Instinct thread: You can go ahead and link to this version or the original "academic paper" version if you like - I never got a clarification about The Historian's stance on previous online "publication", but since it appears the journal does not publish submissions from undergraduates, the point is somewhat moot.

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Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
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Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.