d e s i g n create 4

The assignment for the fourth design create was to create a minimalist travel poster of your favorite or least favorite place. The Rackham building is my favorite building on campus, so I thought I would make a poster in it's honor. 

This was actually a little bit difficult to make mostly because, again, Gimp is so so hard to figure out – there isn't even a tool to make a triangle shape! Some of my corners are uneven and I think the last window on the right is placed a little bit off, but this is only because I could not figure out how to fix a lot of things, even after looking at gimp for so long. Anyways, my process was fairly simple:

1. Fill blue background
2. Make beige rectangle, add same-size rectangles to make the windows, color them gray
3. Make green rectangle
4. Make angled rectangles for sides of the roof by rotating them, color in with blue paintbrush to make seamless (this was the worst part)
5. Add text

VOX POP POP POP IT LIKE IT'S HOT

Listen to my Vox Pop here

Completed my first vox pop! My question was to ask people to describe the University of Michigan in 3 words. I asked a couple of my friends this question as well as my mother, who all had their own ways to describe U of M. One word did come up a couple times though - challenging. Which I wouldn't disagree with!

This project was fairly easy to do after I had figured everything out. I first had a problem with figuring out how to get all the sound clips in one. This was done by simply copying and pasting, which I ended up over thinking a lot. After uploading all the clips I had to time everything just right so that everything transitioned smoothly from one voice to the next. I decided to include my friend Emma's "umm..." in the clip because I thought it was funny (she's also the one about to laugh when asking the question - we had a few trial runs). Overall, Audacity is easy to use once you know how to and creating this project was pretty entertaining. Hope you enjoy my project!