Article 2

 Now more familar with how InDesign worked I got more comfortable adding images and rearranging the layouts on some of my pages for the article, this series of works was required to be 4 pages long, and typically it takes me just about two pages to write a decent article, so I decided to take two prompts provided by my peers and to transition them into one another to build a fuller and more intresting article. The prompt I started with was "What is your favorite style of design" into "How does minimalism affect design".

After choosing what I wanted to write about I gathered up images and examples to use in both segments of writing, for the second half I wanted to use on example of good/bad to keep things evened out. Afterwards I took to writing, using a few pages like 1000Logos and from the Caterpillar site itself, to reinforce my article, then I cleaned it up and combed through it with Grammarly to make sure it had a level of professionalism to it. 

After finishing the article I opened up InDesign and messed with the layouts using as many images as possible that would reference back to what was being talked about in the written portion. Then I decided I wanted to make a visual for the article, about one page- so using Adobe Illustrator, I mocked up a simple design, using some of the Keiser blues as corner holders- and then posing a CAT excavator above the "bad examples" to make a fun playful visual. After making this in Illustrator I had gotten a fun idea from one of the default layouts our teacher provided us, there was a thin strip on the side of the written portion which I thought would look nice with the covers of the old Field and Stream art I had referenced- so after getting the dimensions with the ruler tool, I went back into Illustrator and whipped up a simple design. 

Below are the spreads I had made after finished.

Something I would have changed would be swapping the full page visual with the page next to it, to counter balance the placements of the two pages of text.