Digital Media Journey Business Card

This semester I have been taking a class called Digital Media Portfolio. One of the projects was to design a business card. It took me almost three months to develop this card. The early iterations were before I had a web site, and  there was a confusing array of URL's and icons over the card. I hope to make a series of six or seven cards...the front side identical but with a different photo on the back.

Web Site Now Up and Running

Over the past several weeks I have been designing the web site digitalmediajourney.com. The web site not only has lots of photos, embedded videos, slide shows, there is also a page about the Countryside Hills Subdivision common ground that has been under restoration for over 10 years. The invasive plants,  especially bush honeysuckle, have been removed and replaced with native plants. The project is a little over 1.6 acres and now is an Ozark borderland woodland. The link to the restoration will give you a better understanding about this ecosystem. About 40 dogwoods in a small area will bloom this spring. The photos should be spectacular.

The web site also links my photos on Flickr, Videos on YouTube, and this blog. If you have a chance check out digitalmediajourney.com.

Film Class Posters

Attempting to Boost Enrollment

I designed a series of posters for Rob Hahn who teaches film studies and production at Saint Louis Community College. The Hitchcock class is scheduled for the Spring 2014 semester. Minimum enrollment requirements have become more strict over the past year. The class on the Western that I wanted to take last year was cancelled because of low enrollment. He wants to teach the Western next spring but is doubtful it can meet the enrollment requirement. The text I wrote for the poster explains that the course will be more than the just the old Westerns. The design of the posters is meant to be bold and simple because they have to compete with the clutter of posters on the hallway bulletin boards. I have tried to pattern the posters after the simple hierarchy of the old Marlboro billboards which had two words, Marlboro Country, and an image.

To see the complete set of the Hitchcock posters on my web site click here.