Merida Toala

Concept #1  For this concept, I wanted the home page and header to be the center of attention, so I focused on those two elements and re-designed the other elements around those two, but keeping the main watch there. I think this concept would be effective because the home page can provide easy navigation for the audience and a good introduction to the brand's aesthetic at first sight.  Concept #2 For this concept, I wanted the main focus to be the original header to have a more minimalistic aesthetic. I believe this concept and these designs could be effective because navigating the website will be easy to identify due to the minimalism.   Concept # 3 For this concept, I allowed for each element, the about page, the home page, the contact page, and the portfolio page to be the first page in one sketch to analyze and design the navigation system. I feel like this design could be effective for the attention-grabbing audience that prefers to see the content at first sight r...

                                                       Before                                                                                                         After                                        I chose to go with this option because I felt like the changes would be more evident than the others. For this photo of my twin sister and me (I am on the left, and she is on the right), my goal was to ma...

       This photo is of my twin sister and me. We went on a cruise with our family. This was taken in a gift shop on the island of Belize. I think this is a good photo for restoration because the quality is not the best due to the older cameras and the picture is slightly blurry. This photo is a rare moment of my twin sister and me getting along, kind of. We were in Germany at the time because my dad was deployed in the Army. I think this could be a good choice for restoration because it looks like the colors are too deep so I can adjust the saturation and brightness, and there is glare from the camera flash on the photograph to correct as well. This photo is a moment from when my dad got home from being deployed in Iraq, he came home to us in Germany. These photos are from the early 2000s. My family moved a lot so there are not many tangible meaningful items or photos to choose from. We lost a lot of things every time we moved. I think this would be a good photo to ...

  My design     For my project, I decided to go with my most recently read book, The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides. The original designer of the front and back cover below is Anne Twomey. I feel like my design is effective because it provides an eye-catching moment to the reader. I wanted to do something different than the original design. Instead of a light background, I incorporated a photo of an "asylum," as google says, and edited the image. I learned from the learning videos to adjust the colors of the image, I decreased the brightness and saturation instead of putting a black-and-white filter. I can add that I was inspired by some of our classmates to have one image extended to the front and back cover design. I then incorporated layering by adding two more pictures on top of the background image on the front design. The first is a black headshot shadow male figure, and the second is an image of a woman with a blank face, representing Amelia from the book. I ad...

 Original: My re-design: I do not read books very often, but I did read this recently and it was very interesting. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides. My goal for this project was to design a front cover that makes the audience want to know more, directing them to read the book description on the back cover. The book is about a woman who is mourning her deceased husband, who was murdered. Sketch 1 and 3 connect to the title of the book more because I wanted to emphasize the woman's mouth is covered, although, for sketch 3 I used the torn page idea from the original cover, the proximity and continuation differ. Sketch 2 is the widowed patient just standing in the middle of a blank room with a blank expression. I was inspired by a specific scene in the book when the woman was speaking with her therapist for this graphic, I tried to use the imagery in the book and put it on paper. I feel like sketch 4 could potentially be the most eye-catching, and could be the best choice to move...

The United States of America was built by immigrants, and this country has benefited from the innovation that they bring. Immigrants make up a significant portion of the workforce in a range of industries, over two-fifths of all farming, fishing, and forestry workers, and one-quarter working in math and sciences. (americanimmigrationcouncil.org). Over the past few years, immigration has sparked major attention. From building a wall, deporting families, a global pandemic that paused visa services, and now holding separated immigrant families in detention camps. Many people in power do not support immigrants but fail to acknowledge that this country capitalizes off immigrant culture on a daily basis. I wanted my poster to display immigrant struggles in America, the detention camps being on of them, as well as authentic citizens supporting immigration reform through the handwritten posters. The typography I included is a bold message, and I wanted the graphics to decipher that in a way th...