Big Lights, Big City

This week, I worked on updating some of my clips for my portfolio. It's funny when it comes to a portfolio, it's hard to decide what will in and what one should take out. As I was looking over things that I've done over the years, I realized that it's hard not to hate everything you've done. Or if not that it's difficult to decide what a employer will think is too old or stale. I realize they would probably want your most "fresh" pieces. Some of the pieces I plan to use for my portfolio are from the Magazine Design class. Then I've decided to try to do my graduation invitations and I also plan to help a friend with her wedding invitations. I've made up my mind to try to do more free small favors for various friends and family so that I will have work to add to my portfolio.

So the clips are as follows:



I actually updated this over Christmas break. This was the typographical layout that we were assigned to create for our Magazine Design final. Although it wasn't until I printed it out yesterday that I realized that the background was so dark. Plus I think I have some ideas about how to change the layout of it again. I probably won't delete it but I will probably make a new one. I like the way it turned out.


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I also created the poster for the MAP seminar. I didn't think that it looked that great but I was trying to go with a "Big lights, Big city" theme. That's why the font is the way it is. I tried to drop the a skyline outline in but it made the poster look too busy .So that's why I decided to leave it out.



I don't know if I like the way it came out.But right now I guess I will stay the way it is.

Since it seems like this summer I'm going to be Columbia-bound, I'm looking for some type of internship to do just to get more work into my portfolio. I don't want this summer to go to waste. So any advice that anyone can give about design jobs that need to be done over the summer, please let me know. I appreciate all of the ones that have been suggested to me already.