Sorry for this late project update! I know in last week’s update, I said that I decided I wanted to focus on the Jazz in the Garden event. Well, over the weekend, I got some new inspiration for the Tropical Forest Congo event/exhibit. I kept seeing the trailers for the new Tarzan movie, and got the idea of the jungle vines as connections. In my mind, I kept associating vines as an object connecting the wildlife and plants in the rainforest. I started to sketch somethings out, and finally got an idea of the integrating the type with vines. I’ve been looking at some typefaces for this project, too, off of the Adobe Typekit website. As for the booklet, I’m kind of debating what size I want the booklet to be. I’m not going to exceed the 6×6” parameter, but I don’t want to be a square booklet. I’m making some mockup booklet forms to figure out what size I want it to be.
Below, I have three mockups of the event posters with some comments on them, too. I’d appreciate some feedback and comments on them, even on my preliminary sketches from the prior updates as well. To be honest, I got stuck on the Jazz in the Garden event once I started it on the computer. I also realized I that couldn’t find any more information about the event either. With the Tropical Forest Congo exhibit, I found much more information about it and I also went back and saw the photos I took when I was there.
Akaashmi Mishra 
Akashmi – I like the start but if I can ad a few suggestions – The Jazz in the Garden – You might want to take a few more goes at this one – I think you are on to something but some feedback from me would be as follows: – It still feels a little flat – The guitar and the type are not truly intergraded with one another – Maybe look at the guitar and see what is the minimum amount of info you need to still read as a guitar – that would require possibly resizing and moving it around on the page – the weight and size of the image and type can change – perhaps you start with simple black and white thumbnails exploring this idea you are off to a very good start with this one – I love the fact that you are working with one line of type and one image – keep exploring that – I think we done do enough of this type of exploration in layout – think about what you want to read first and make sure that it actually reads first – Keep up the good work and keep exploring – Pat
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