Graphic/Publication Design

Assignment: Brochure & CD

Imagine that you are hiring yourself to create a promotional brochure for your skills.

Design a folded brochure that contains all your creative savvy in its pages and that is also able to hold a CD with your images from this class' assignments (If you want to include images from other classes burn a second CD).

A paper can be folded many different ways so plan your project by creating a preliminary composite before you show it to your professor. This composite will help you to set up your document when you begin working on the computer.

The brochure should contain images that attract attention to your skills, contact information, and a brief bio or resume on one of the inside pages.

You should design your brochure in a way that would hold a CD in one of the inside panes (invent a creative way to hold the CD).

Print your work, fold it perfectly, insert the CD and present it during the final critique.
Find a commercial printer if you don't have access to a good printer but keep in mind the hard deadlines.

You may use high quality stock images for this assignment if you want. Do NOT use images downloaded from the web.

• Create a visually stunning brochure that includes a CD, images, text as needed, a resume, and contact info.
• Print it on high quality paper
• Burn a CD that includes all your final assignments for this class (including a PDF for this very brochure)
• Create a nice image and label for the actual CD. Print it and glue it on your CD
• Put the CD in a pocket in one of the folds inside your brochure
• Present your final product during the final critique (No computer files will be critiqued)

If you do not print the project and you decide to only submit a computer file in your CD you can only earn up to a B.

If you do not submit printed work, and you do not submit a CD with your work, deciding instead to submit a file in the computer, you can only earn up to a C for your efforts.

If you don't submit anything during the final critique, you can earn up to an E for that assignment.

If you decide to print your work, fold it nicely, include the CD with lots on nice work from this class, but decide to take off for home a little early for the summer festivities and just drop the work off in my mailbox for grading before the deadline... Well, you will have a nice piece for your portfolio, but you will earn an E for not presenting your work in the critique along with all the penalties that derive from the Syllabus for work not submitted on the final crit.