InDesign Newsletter
InDesign Newsletter
January 30, 2023
January 30, 2023
My first project due for my Multimedia Authoring course and my first project with InDesign. I thought back into my interest in marine biology and decided to create an informational newsletter on Florida's Mangroves. I was largely inspired from volunteering at the Florida Aquarium in the past and my love of nature.
My first project due for my Multimedia Authoring course and my first project with InDesign. I thought back into my interest in marine biology and decided to create an informational newsletter on Florida's Mangroves. I was largely inspired from volunteering at the Florida Aquarium in the past and my love of nature.
For the header and sub headers I chose something bold to get the reader's attention. For the title header I chose a yellow Arial Bold font to stand-out from the header image. The sub-headers were the same, but green color instead as I liked the yellow/green to complement the subject matter. The body text is called "Minion Pro" and looks similar to Arial, but somewhat softer and not quite as bold. I experimented a bit with speech bubbles and tried utilizing yellow speech bubbles to go with some of the images. I was a bit limited on images as I wanted to see if I could use open source/public domain images and so I structured my text boxes around what I could find. Was contemplating choosing something other than white for the background, but stuck with it just to be safe.
For the header and sub headers I chose something bold to get the reader's attention. For the title header I chose a yellow Arial Bold font to stand-out from the header image. The sub-headers were the same, but green color instead as I liked the yellow/green to complement the subject matter. The body text is called "Minion Pro" and looks similar to Arial, but somewhat softer and not quite as bold. I experimented a bit with speech bubbles and tried utilizing yellow speech bubbles to go with some of the images. I was a bit limited on images as I wanted to see if I could use open source/public domain images and so I structured my text boxes around what I could find. Was contemplating choosing something other than white for the background, but stuck with it just to be safe.
It was a very different and overwhelming experience at the moment. I was a little hesitant to even just play around with it to get a feeling for it. Eventually I got a hand of sizing text boxes using the diagram lines to measure and proportion the text boxes with the images. I definitely feel I would of chose something different for the body text as it does look a bit too similar to the header text, but I did want some consistency as well. I didn't look into how to make the background an image rather than white for the last page, so I just settled for one image and on text box.
It was a very different and overwhelming experience at the moment. I was a little hesitant to even just play around with it to get a feeling for it. Eventually I got a hand of sizing text boxes using the diagram lines to measure and proportion the text boxes with the images. I definitely feel I would of chose something different for the body text as it does look a bit too similar to the header text, but I did want some consistency as well. I didn't look into how to make the background an image rather than white for the last page, so I just settled for one image and on text box.