Website

This is my website when it was 15% done.

Sketches

These are the two sketches that I was thinking about for my website.  I'm leaning more towards the bottom picture because I would rather the sidebar be on the left side instead of the right.

Jessica Hische Research

Jessica Hische grew up in Pennsylvania and pursued a career in graphic design thanks to the encouragement of a high school teacher. In her graphic design classes, she would go above and beyond on the projects and do more than what was asked. Her passion was illustration and image-making. She graduated college in 2006, and got a job as a freelance designer for a little shop in Philadelphia, where she helped make fancy books. She left and went to work for someone else, but the work became too much so she left there too. She decided to venture out on her own, which turned out to be the right thing to do. She now lives in San Francisco and has the nickname "That Drop Cap Girl." She is a letterer and an illustrator and is known for her side projects.

Revised Magazine Cover

Above is my revised magazine cover. In the critique I was told that my masthead was a little too close to my edges, so I made it smaller to reduce edge tension. I was also told that the picture of me kissing the dolphin was placed right in the middle of the page so it felt like it cut the magazine into to pieces. So  I flipped the picture and moved it further down the page to use the Rule of Thirds. Then I just moved my text around the page to make them fit correctly around the moved image.

Final Cover

Above is the picture of my final magazine cover. I changed the masthead because I was told that my first one was a little too plain/small and didn't give the title enough emphasis.  I made the "Bull Fighting" text smaller because I was told that by keeping it the same size would cause confusion between the main story. I got rid of the blue box in the PETA logo and made it smaller because I was told that having that vibrant blue and having it so big was causing a distraction away from the rest of my cover. I also added a little more body to the subheading underneath "Stop The Japanese Dolphin Slaughter." I was told to try to explain why there is a picture of someone kissing a dolphin on the cover, so I added "Serene, Harmless, and Lovable Creatures" to the subheading to try to show that these animals are extremely harmless and are a species that are widely loved.

Magazine

Above is a picture of my original idea for my magazine cover. My focus is on the Japanese dolphin slaughter and what needs to be done to stop it.