The editorial design taught me about organizational balance throughout a spread and was the first incorporation of a style guide; ensuring the issue prints properly and additionally making sure that spreads don't appear out of place, disorganized, or break consistency. I'm also quite content with the graphic because it gives off a light-hearted tone, while also getting the point of the story across. As it was the first time I've engaged with digital art, I'm quite happy with the end result.

This spread was different from the rest that I've made the first semester as it was purely photo-based rather than graphic based. This spread was quite difficult to make because the photos were different finding photo credits was unreasonably difficult, which became a problem because the spread wouldn't be able to be published without the potential copyright complications. This spread also taught me about creative formatting without disregarding the style guide due to its segmented fashion instead of one collective story that can just be placed in chronological order.

This spread was my favorite from the semester because I was able to learn from mistakes I made in the previous issue (previous two spreads). As a result of this spread being the only design I was assigned to work on for the issue, I was able to put much more time and effort into making the graphics and creating a better overall aesthetic. Much like the Editorial spread, this spread was graphic based. However because it was a shorter story and included statistics, it required larger more graphics to be placed and allowed me to experiment with styles of digital art to create graphics that fit with the theme of the story. 

This is my only web graphic (as of writing) and was my very first project since I joined The Muse. At the time I was not very familiar with the InDesign platform, so this project taught me the basics of making a graphic and setbacks to expect while using InDesign. It isn't exactly my proudest work, but I always look at it as a way to remind myself just how much I've learned since I joined the publication. 

Similar to "Art of Romance", this article is based on love, but because it was photo based, I decided to avoid digital art in order to make the design feel like a scrapbook of old photos. This spread required me to learn how to use external resources like Photoshop to create certain elements of this spread such as the tape and faded music/math sheets featured on the first half of the spread. This was the first spread that I switched from using digital art graphics to using general formatting and collaging to create an aesthetic appeal. 

Due to this spread being based around nature, it was heavily inspired by magazines made by National Geographic to determine the placement of the photos, and to further radiate the inspiration, the photos were given the reminiscent yellow borders. It was a very simple concept and process, but in my opinion it adds to the beauty of the design and allows further understanding of the article.

Because of how much I relied on digital art the previous semester and because of my lack of experience with the digital art, I decided to avoid it for the previous issue, in which the designs were more photo based. But because of the playful and relaxed tone of the article, I decided that to incorporate digital work in combination with the photos. Additionally, since I've grown my knowledge of digital art tools, I was able to create graphics to better complement the photos.