Ariana Dela Vega
School Portfolio
Graphic Design Intermediate
This is a list of the best baking apps. The list has a range from recipe apps to concentrated purposes, like timer apps. Related. Visual/written. Internet.
Here is a link to my App Design research board on Pinterest. For each thing I pinned, I wrote a small description and organized them from types of research.
I want to make my app for cakes. For one of my ideas, I wanted to make an app that's more modern. This app would have healthier recipes for cakes by being gluten free, low sugar, less fat, etc. And yes, this cake was baked by yours truly.
Another idea I had was to make it retro themed. The cakes would have retro decorations and titles. I have a wooden spoon shaped like a heart and thought it was perfect. I added a light lens flare to mimic an old picture feel.
My favorite design and idea is this one. Cake-Stache is a baking app for men, because I thought the baking apps that exist are too girly. Cake-Stache is an app where you can "stache" your recipes and share them too. I make the mustache out of whipped cream and then edited it in photoshop.
This is what the layout would look like for one recipe. I have to fix my type and I'm going to get more cohesive pictures.
I brought the type up so it wouldn't be so low on the page. I also switched out my pictures, so now they are much more cohesive. You can also see the finish product now.
Project 1—App:
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For this app I did everything in Photoshop.
I didn't know the "final" design was going to be my final design. It took the whole class by surprise, actually.
For this project, I looked at my book collection for some inspiration since it's boring looking at examples online. This is when I realized a lot of my books have pictures...90% of them have pictures. These are books I own without pictures. I've had some of these for a few years.
Yes, I use the plastic swords from drinks as a bookmark. It seems fitting for the Three Musketeers. Here, the page number is at the top with the header title.
This is what the intro page to Sense and Sensibility looks like. It's a very long introduction. I like the first letter, it adds contrast to the page.
The header is the same as the Three Musketeers. Probably because they are both Barnes and Noble editions.
Here there is only a footer and instead of being centered, it's reflected.
All my headers are the same. Guess I'll come up with my own.
For the first roughs, we had to use our speeches with the shortest and longest introductions. This is to make sure our layouts will work with all of our speeches.
My shortest intro is on the right and my longest intro is on the left. The book will not be set up this way (both speeches next to each other) this is just how I set it up in InDesign to not waste paper.
As you can see, the first roughs don't have any headers or footer. Those will be added later. In the critique, I was told that the columns are too far apart.
Project 2—Text Booklet:
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For this app I did everything in InDesign.
For this all type booklet, we had to have the intros to all of our speeches fit on the first page. This project is done in only black and white.
Here is a link to my InDesign Booklet research board (again). Yes, this is the same board from freshman year, but I continuously add to my research even after projects have ended. This is not only research; this is proof that I look at graphic design outside of class. I do this for all of the Pinterest boards I set up for school. BOOM, good student points?
Lucky me. I have a speaker before the time of photography. That means every picture I have of Daniel is going to be bland and won't be able to scale up or else it will get pixelated. I have to keep this in mind for the rest of the layout so everything can match. This restriction puts a damper on things, but it's feasible. I added the thin line again because for some odd reason I feel like I need it somewhere. In this design, the line helps separate the intro from the speech.
I will be ragging this booklet because I want to do something different from my last booklet. The lefthand side is a continuation of the speech from the last chapter design. It's not the entire speech, it's just there to give you an idea of what it will look like. Here, the image was originally in an oval frame. If I went ahead with this, I would have to put everyone else in an oval frame.
I tried to have a big image, but this is the biggest it will go without being distorted. Since we were allowed to do things differently for this booklet, I made it start on the lefthand side. I've seen books that start their chapters on the left, and it's perfectly natural because we read left-to-right. Apparently, doing this is still a big nono. Scrapping this idea.
I really dislike this picture, but it's the best quality picture I have of Daniel O'Connell. I didn't want to male a text wrap around the curved because I thought it looked awkward.
Here is an example of a pullout quote. I center justified this to make it different from the rest of the body text.
I did not do a text wrap around the oval again, but now I think it might have looked cleaner than what I did here. I'm putting the intros at the top of the page again because Polakov said titles that are lower are more inviting.
My second example of a pullout quote shows it in the same font as the body text, but it's much bigger and italicized.
I came back to this design, but the only thing I did differently was take away the thin line because I was leaning on it to make the page more interesting.
Project 3—Text and Image Booklet:
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For this app I did used InDesign and Photoshop.
In this booklet, Polavok said we could things differently! The covers don't have to line up with the chapter titles, the chapter titles don't have to be below the introductions and can be at the top of the page, and the introduction can be on more than one page. Some rules do still apply; The chapter pages should all look the same, the pullout quotes must be treated the same way, and basically the entire layout should be the same. No differences. Ever. And we still have to work in black and white.
This is still a work in progress.
I have a link bellow that leads you to my Sailor Moon pinterest board. Like all of my boards, you will see that each post has a short description followed by the type of research it is. Unsurprisingly, this is my most followed board.
I love Sailor Moon. You're about to see how much I do with this project. A good resource for the style and a website I routinely visit is sailormooncollectables.com for merchandise. As you can see, the design of the website is fairly girly and filled with pink. You can view the website in the link below.