Art 141 final: Accordion Booklet

I go the idea for my accordion from my Photo1 class. For the Photo1 class we were supposed to make a "beauty" collage with photos that we had taken. It was a very open ended assignment and there were no guidelines. When it was mentioned that we would be making accordion booklets I immediately jumped on the idea of combining both assignments and killing two birds with one stone. I think the hardest part of this whole assignment (for me) was writing the poetry to go with my images. Other than that I found Adobe's Indesign program pretty easy to use and arranging everything on the pages was fairly easy as well. I am with very content with the final result, my one complaint is that I wish I printed it with the inkjet and spent the extra money. The image quality on my final (which I used for my Photo1 class) was not satisfactory, but that said it also wasn't terrible and was good enough. I have one question for you (Prof. Dallal) and that is why does the school's print center recommend RGB color images for the inkjet printer? I ask since you mentioned that CYMK was best for printing (although I now wonder if you meant it was best for printing in magazines etc. rather than fine art printing).

T-Shirt Product

So with the Street Sharks T-shirt design I opted to make an actual shirt with it rather than print it out on paper and stick on a mat board. The shirt did not came out as I expected. The colored letters (and even the blacks)have a weird static look to them which consists of little colored specks. I really thought the colors were important to relay an oceany-shark kind of theme. The blue is a teal tone often seen in ocean water, the grey and white correlates to great whites sharks and any other sharks with similar coloration. The shark out line was based of a great white so it all kind of connects. I think if i were to have any more made I would do the screen print, the digital print quality just wasnt what I wanted out of it. The shirt form the back. The front of the shirt. Here you can see the static coloration of the letters, this also appears in the blacks on the shark and the images on the back of the shirt. I really am disappointed with it.