My Recent Graphic Design Endeavors

Over the past two months I have been working on two very important projects, one for school, and one for my father. I'll start off with the project I did for my father. I had heard my Dad complaining about how his business card was very boring and did not stand out from other business cards. I took this as an opportunity to help out my Dad and do a project at the same time. This project was really fun because I could basically do whatever I wanted with it as long as it stood out from all the other business cards. The first thing that came to my mind was this business card I had seen on the internet, that took a Google search page but was filled in with the company's information. Obviously I did not want to copy this card so I came up with my own rendition for it.
First, I will show you the card that inspired me.

     That card is what inspired me, but I chose to make a business card for a person, instead of a company and I took it to the next level. First, I went on google and did a random search so I had an outline of the card. Then I went into illustrator and set up some rulers so I knew where to start the text and what size it had to be. That was definitely the hardest part, finding the proper font size, correct colors, and the correct font seemed to take ages. After I knew everything I needed I went into photoshop and erased everything except the border lines. Once that was done I went into illustrator and went over every border line so they would not be pixelated and then took them out in photoshop. I also got a high-res version of the Google logo so that wouldn't be pixelated. After all this was done all that was left to do was some fine tuning like lining up all the text and getting everything in the right spot. Finally, here is the business card I came up with (I took out all my Dad's information and filled it in with fake info).

    
     The next project I did was for my schools art & design show. For this project I took my top 5 favorite projects I did throughout the year and put them onto one big board. This project was really fun for me, but it was hard to choose just five projects to put on it. So I had to have some family and friends help me choose the fifth project because for me it was a draw between two. After I chose the projects I was going to use laying it out so everything fit was the next hard part. For each picture I had to right a paragraph on why I chose to do that project, how I got the idea, how I did it, and what I would do differently, so that took up a lot space. But after getting it all laid out it looked great. Once again, I took out my name and put in a fake name.