Mohamed

Deadline 4 - Wrestling
I've done yearbook for 2 years and this has got to be the best spread i've done yet, it being the only spread that I had to do for class this year, i really wanted to push myself to new limits, and try new things. This is the first time i made a picture transparent, I think that was one of my favorite aspects of this layout, especially the picture in between the team picture and the dominant photo, I think it really gives it a nice effect. When I started this spread, I didn't think I'd be able to do anything even semi-good, but as I worked through i discovered new things like the transparency, the faded out background picture and the dominant photo that runs through the gutter. In middle school yearbook, I had to follow the pica by pica guides, and everything had to be perfectly in line, but this year, i didn't have to do a lot of that, I could freely place everything, and let pictures and writing overlap, which binded with the transparency and really gave a nice effect. From this spread I learned that not everything had to follow guides, it looked better when things had some freedom in their placement. I also learned how to do a pull quote, which is something I never had to do before, I think it really adds effect to the page. I took alot of risks in this layout, the really bright titles, the lack of a eye line that runs across the whole layout, the different colored words in the story (the orange ones), putting the dominant photo through the gutter was certainly new and risky for me. One of the best risks I took though was the glow on the inside of the small pictures, I didn't think that would work at all, and I put it in by accident, and liked it, if you think about it, some of the world's greatest inventions and discoveries were by accident. Not meaning to sound full of it, but I don't think there's anything I want to change from this layout.