VD Journal By Jason Batista

During project 7 the goal was to collaborate with a group of 4 people and brainstorm ideas to create a newspaper or magazine. Each person in the group had to write their own article about the topic and add all the elements that is needed for an article. Our team leader chose the topic sports and within that topic we narrowed it down to Bodybuilding, because we found that it would be an easier writing piece to create. At first everyone in the class was suppose to write their own article for the peer reviewing section. On Friday we reviewed other works and wrote comments about them. For my writing i chose to write about Arnold Schwarzenegger and how he became a bodybuilder and his meals throughout the day.  With this we incorporated our work together into InDesign and began combing the works. In order for the group to finish on time, I decided to take responsibility and take the project home to finish it, and make it more appealing. To the left is the cover I made for our magazine,...

During project 6 we had to create and demonstrate our skills as web designers, by brainstorming and collaborating to create a yearbook. The time for the project there was 4 people per group and each one had a unique role. My role in my group was the designer. I chose this role because it was the hardest and allowed me to practice even more with my illustrator, Photoshop and In design skills. Our topic for the yearbook was kids in the city or city life, which Is why I chose a 7 train because most kids take the 7 train to come and go to school. Another reason why I put the Black Hawk over the train is because that was the symbol of our school. I made this in illustrator and used the trace option to make it look like it was drawn and more appealing than the original pictures. I also designed all the spreads and put all the pictures and typed all the text into the file because of my teams lack of time management and mine, I took the liberty and took the project home to mak...