So Close

Here we go everyone only about a week left. Personally I'm excited to walk and I think everyone else that is walking is feeling the same way right now.

Getting to the project, I have put together my magazine pretty well so far but I still have some things to do. I decided that inside my magazine, I would have a page fully dedicated to advertisements. But not only would these advertisements be in the zine, but they would kind of represent each page that has its own theme with it. Music will have Beats by Dr. Dre, Fitness will have the pre-workout supplement Jack3d, Kawasaki will represent my present motorcycle that I own, Scion represents the car that I currently own, and I am hoping to receive a logo from my tattoo artist so that I can include him into the advertisements also.

On the back cover of my zine, I wanted to dedicate it to "My Life" being a whole collage on who I am. I want to have pictures of friends, family, and fun activities that I like to do like going up to my camp and beating. I think this page will put my life into a nutshell for all of the readers to visually see. By putting this together I hope to show everyone who I truly am.

Keep working everyone. We are almost there.

Final Project still going

The weeks are getting down and almost summer vacation. Im getting excited but Im still concentrating on all of the work I am getting in classes, especially this one. My zine is actually going pretty well. I have been able to come up with the subject that I want in the zine but im thinking about adding more.

I am thinking about the back cover right now to kind of tie everything in. I was thinking about a page dedicated totally to me and things that I have done in my life, like a collage. Im thinking this would be a great way not only to finish up the final project, but also to finish up all of the work I have been doing for classes. I feel like this will be something just for me.

Obviously also all of you will be able to see the things I have done in my life, so I think it would be a good time. I was able to download some different fonts from offline, so Im hoping that this will make it look a little bit more catchy and different. I was getting sick of all of the normal fonts that come on the computer. Also, I wanted to make the fonts to page the theme of the page.

We will see how it goes. Not much longer everyone.

Well after starting my project up, I actually did decide on doing my own magazine. As Amy and I talked about, there is a certain word for what I'm doing but I forgot what it was called. Its going to be a magazine that deals with everything that I like in my life ranging from motorcycles to tattoos.

Getting going on this was a little harder than I thought, but once I started rolling I knew what I had to do. I took a look at some magazines online to get a rough idea of what I had to do for it. I mean its not professional but I still think it looks good.

I started it off calling it Dom's Mag. I think it could eventually be changed to DM if it were to be a real magazine someday. I started off talking about tattoos and my own and then maybe what I would like to get someday. My next part is on cars, the one I own and the one I hope to own in the future. But I don't want to give out all of the information on my project so Ill just wait to tell more next week.

Final Project

After getting the information on the final project, a lot has been running through my head of what to do. I have thought about CD covers, calendars, business cards, and many others. But I think that I have came up with a final idea. A magazine.

I want this to not just be any normal magazine on a certain topic, but a magazine all about what I like. Its going to be a kind of all about Dom magazine. I want to include motorcycles, cars, tattoos, and different types of music throughout the magazine. I think that it will be something that can keep me going throughout the entire rest of the time that we have, and keep me interested. 

To be honest I actually think that a magazine like this would relate to a lot of different types of people also. I think that certain times magazines get to be like all of the same stories and topics. I think by keeping it fresh and changing up themes would not only keep me interested, but also a reader interested.

I was also thinking about throwing in some types of advertisements like a real magazine would have. This is just something I'm thinking about but might have to include. I am going to get started on all of this but have no promises this is where I am going to end up come presentation time.

Here we go.

Project 4 in Progress

With the due date of Project 4 quickly upcoming, I feel that my project is almost done. It was nice to do some work that may actually be used in real life. Like I said in my last post, I am doing my brochure for Buffalo Paws and Claws, an animal shelter and rescue out of East Aurora.

After the project is done, I was thinking of contacting Kristy Cordova, the founder of Buffalo Paws and Claws, and see if she actually wanted to use the brochure for her organization. I am hoping that if she decides to use the brochure, it will help her cause and help adopt out animals in need. This will be something that means a lot to me and will make me feel like I am contributing to a good cause.

To be honest though, I am actually excited to start up on the final project since I have tons of different ideas that I want to do since we are able to do anything we want. I dont want to give anything away already but I am thinking of doing a short magazine with as many pages as it takes me to take up the entire 8 studio sessions. Im sure by the time I actually start the project I will have changed my mind, but we will see how it goes.

Tri Fold Brochure

With our 4th project coming up on us already I have been thinking about what I should do for the tri fold brochure. At first, I was thinking about doing it on Buffalo State Athletics since I work in the Sports Information Department here and could easily put a book together on that.

But after going and seeing my Husky and some of the dogs I have fostered in the past, I decided on doing it on my favorite non-profit organization called Buffalo Paws and Claws. They are located out of East Aurora. I went out there last year and looked at dogs to foster and fell in love with it. I chose a Rottweiler named Shasta who I loved and took care of until she got adopted.

I think that this organization is a great one that deserves a lot of respect and also more popularity in the community. I think that doing a brochure for them will not only be fun, but can also help them out in the future.

I am going to put some information on the organization, and put what they do like fostering and adoptions of all of their animals so maybe they can be sent out to people in the community and these animals will get an opportunity to go to a good home.

I might even include a couple pics of my own pets, but you never know.

Spring break

Hope all of you are having a great break, see you all on Tuesday