Working on Graduation Designs

For senior production, our group is responsible for making diplomas, invites, and programs. We have moved on from Senior Production commissions and have started on the programs and invites. So far, I have reworked Ashley's design into a program and altered the typography in the invite to eliminate the block-y look the text had.

The size of this invite is 4x6 . I have given emphasis on the "2017" and "Visual Performing Arts" as I see those two words are the most notable phrases here. I've also rid of the original shape that "A reception will follow" was in as it looked cramped and added a ribbon instead. I've also continued the pomegranate line work more towards  the top to encompass the information. The changes here are very subtle but I believe they have made the invitation look overall, more successful.

With the program, I altered the color scheme and did the typography for the title, "VPAA". I had to experiment with different sizes of each individual letter and widths. The lettering looked more successful with lowercase letters for the "paa" part because they showed more swirl between the letters as opposed to the stoic, uppercase letters.I also continued the pomegranate flower outlines toward the center to make to guide the eye around the page so there is some sort of movement in reading the names. Overall, the most difficult part of playing with this design was making colors work and not draw attention away from the names.







Throughout the process, most of the feedback was given by Richburg and Buhner. For the invite, we had to make the words on the page read the way we want it to be spoken. We were also given corrections by Buhner to not refer to the class as "a Graduating Class" as it creates conflict between school graduations and academy graduations. He also warned us about the red-to-white gradient and how the names could vanish towards the bottom and make some parents upset.
As a group, we have been slacking because of AP exams and our core classes; also throwing in senioritis into the mix, it has been a struggle to keep up with deadlines. There's really no controlling procrastination, other than to push ourselves to finish our work.

How do the designs look?
Does the pomegranate flower line-work in the back resemble lightning strikes too much?
Will the design strike our guests as classy?

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