Brochures

This brochure is an example of a tri-fold brochure. I think this is a great example of a tri-fold brochure because it has balance, clean lines, and good use of colors and graphics. I like that the center fold only focuses on text and information, while the two surrounding fold offer visual and graphic representations. I like the use of a blue design line at the bottom of the brochure, but I would have liked if there was one along the top as well to make the brochure more balanced. The only major change I would make to this brochure would be to make use of some of the white space. I think they should have either made the graphic or the text larger to take up more space on the brochure. Over all this is a clean and good brochure with good elements of design and an effective method of giving out information.

I think this ad is a really eye catching advertisement. I think the use of color is very eye catching and makes the reader stop and look at what the ad is trying to sell. The ad uses both proportion and balance very well by making the ad symmetrical. The lines of the face are clean, and of course flawless. The light reflecting off the cherries draws the eye to the center of the ad, directly to the product being sold. Something I would change about the ad would be to make the bottle larger than the faces in the ad. The product should be the focus of the ad, but the first thing I noticed was the mouths with the cherries. I would also enhance the blue coloring of the bottle to make it pop against the red background more. I think this ad is a mix of both fantasy and image/lifestyle.

Good vs. Bad Layouts

Since we did an assignment on good and bad layouts I decided to blog what I thought was a good and a bad example of magazine cover layouts.

The Good
I thought this was a great layout. The colors caught my eye, it used shapes and text well. The picture has a good angle and nothing os over lapping or blocking off other text.

The Bad

I thought this was a pretty bad magazine layout. First of all there is part of the text blocking the title of the publication. The colors used dont go well together, and tha main picture on the cover is blocking some of the image in the top right corner. Overall its a messy cover layout that I wouldn't waste my time looking at.