Here is the logo I created in the first tutorial.
This is the pencil I made in the second tutorial.
The banner I made in the third tutorial.
The lettering I made in the fourth tutorial.
The logo I made for the final tutorial. Go Cougs.
Final Graphic Design Project
For my draft, I decided to create a brochure cover for my graphic design project. My topic is intramural sports so I created a brochure cover that would advertise for WSU intramural sports. I tried to use the laws of proximity and continuation in my design. Continuation was one I really tried to incorporate because with the theme of intramural sports having the impression of motion in my design was important. I tried to incorporate as many sports as possible in my design to showcase the variety of intramural sports offered at WSU. I used the grass from a baseball field as a background, and a cutout of a baseball player to make sure baseball and softball were represented in the graphic. I also used cutouts of someone playing a golf and someone playing basketball to illustrate some of the other popular sports offered by the school. I framed the title of the graphic with hockey sticks to show yet another intramural sport that is offered. I got the images that I used from Pixabay, the website made it easy to find cutouts from a variety of sports that I could use to create an effective brochure cover. The basketball cutout required me to use the magnetic lasso tool and create multiple layers to get the person, the ball, and the hoop, but I was able to do so using multiple copies of the picture. Other than that, most of what I had to do was just placing and rotating the images I used to create the graphic. I also used the text tool to create the title and the information in the bottom right corner. I tried to pick an interesting font for the title and information. In the final draft, I decided to change the font because the font that I picked for the draft just wasn’t as appealing when I took a second look at it. I also thought it was a good idea to make crimson the font color, and gray the outline color, given that it is being used to advertise for WSU intramural sports. For the final draft, I received a lot of feedback on my design. I tried to incorporate as much of the feedback as possible into my final draft. I decided to resize my design so that it better resembled a brochure cover. I also added a border and put a grey outline on the text. From there, I resized the images and placed them in spots that better fit the new shape of my graphic. I think adding the border gives the graphic some depth and makes it look more professional as a whole. I think the feedback I got gave me some great ideas for the final design and I believe my final draft is miles ahead of my original draft that I submitted.
All pictures used under a Pixabay license:
https://pixabay.com/vectors/golf-accuracy-balance-control-club-3494533/
https://pixabay.com/vectors/baseball-baseball-bat-hit-black-150324/
https://pixabay.com/photos/basketball-sport-ball-game-2258651/
https://pixabay.com/vectors/hockey-stick-hockey-ice-sport-147984/
https://pixabay.com/photos/baseball-field-landscape-lawn-green-1548348/
Draft Graphic Design Project
I decided to create a brochure cover for my graphic design project. My topic is intramural sports so I created a brochure cover that would advertise for WSU intramural sports. I tried to use the laws of proximity and continuation in my design. Continuation was one I really tried to incorporate because with the theme of intramural sports having the impression of motion in my design was important. I tried to incorporate as many sports as possible in my design to showcase the variety of intramural sports offered at WSU. I used the grass from a baseball field as a background, and a cutout of a baseball player to make sure baseball and softball were represented in the graphic. I also used cutouts of someone playing a golf and someone playing basketball to illustrate some of the other popular sports offered by the school. I framed the title of the graphic with hockey sticks to show yet another intramural sport that is offered. I got the images that I used from Pixabay, the website made it easy to find cutouts from a variety of sports that I could use to create an effective brochure cover. The basketball cutout required me to use the magnetic lasso tool and create multiple layers to get the person, the ball, and the hoop, but I was able to do so using multiple copies of the picture. Other than that, most of what I had to do was just placing a rotating the images I used to create the graphic. I also used the text tool to create the title and the information in the bottom right corner. I tried to pick an interesting font for the title and information, I also thought it was a good idea to make crimson the font color, given that it was a brochure for WSU intramurals. 
All pictures used under a Pixabay license:
https://pixabay.com/vectors/golf-accuracy-balance-control-club-3494533/
https://pixabay.com/vectors/baseball-baseball-bat-hit-black-150324/
https://pixabay.com/photos/basketball-sport-ball-game-2258651/
https://pixabay.com/vectors/hockey-stick-hockey-ice-sport-147984/
https://pixabay.com/photos/baseball-field-landscape-lawn-green-1548348/
Photoshop Image Collection
I’m planning on making a collage of all of the different sports I play with my friends for intramurals. The pictures below were ones that spoke to me and I thought they would make for a good collage when put together.
https://pixabay.com/photos/basketball-sport-ball-game-2258651/
https://pixabay.com/vectors/hockey-stick-hockey-ice-sport-147984/
https://pixabay.com/photos/baseball-field-landscape-lawn-green-1548348/
Photoshop Tutorials
I added a picture of Cougville to my bulletin board.
Go Cougs.
I think this one came out pretty well. I’m happy with the way it looks.
I think this one turned out well too. I like the way the text looks.
I had to use this great picture of our beloved quarterback.
Topic Introduction: Intramural Sports
The topic I chose to work on for my COM 210 projects this semester is intramural sports. Last year I would often get together with some of my friends to play football, baseball, or basketball and those are some of my favorite memories from that time. My friends and I are planning on forming intramural teams this year as something fun to do. I think intramural sports would lend itself well to making content and projects for this class.
I plan on taking pictures, recording videos and interviews on my phone of the other people on the team to tell the stories of games and practices. I’ll also be able to show the dynamic and camaraderie between all of the people that play sports with us.
For the logo project, I’m planning on designing a logo for our team that we could put on t-shirts or jerseys for when we play games. For the audio story, I’m planning on interviewing some of my friends on the team about what they enjoy about playing sports and what makes the group we have fun to be a part of. For the video story, I’m planning on filming us playing or possibly doing a tutorial of some kind such as how to shoot a jump shot.
https://twitter.com/IslandSardines?lang=en
The first link is to a beer league hockey team that I found on twitter. I think they have a fun logo and I want to create something similar to it for my logo project.
https://bithockey.com/beer-league-hockey-team-name-ideas/
This web page also had some great ideas for team names and some really cool designs for logos. I was very inspired by some of the logos.
https://universe.byu.edu/2013/02/26/funniest-intramural-team-names-web/
There were some pretty funny team names in here for all different sports. We’ll most likely end up just picking a team name of our own that has to do with an inside joke from our group but there are some good jumping off points on this site.
My First Blog Post
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— Oscar Wilde.
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