Andrea & Ryan reading response

I think the orals readings were helpful in creating our documents for our project. But since our project is comprised mainly of documents such as the MAPC course description and the brochure, half of our efforts were focused on the text aspects of our documents. Because of this I think that the “Thinking with type” book was the most helpful in creating our documents. It helped us in understanding the points we had to consider when choosing our text for our documents. Instead of choosing something that we found visually pleasing, we also had to choose what we thought our audience would respond to. It had to be visually pleasing, readable, and work well on several different mediums (print and web). We chose our typeface because we thought it looked more modern and clean, and the type book said that a younger audience found sans-serif typefaces to be easier to read we decided on the sans-serif to increase readability and usability for our readers. As for the use of space, this book was also the most helpful in how to utilize space to draw attention to where we wanted the readers eye to go, whether it be through bold high dot ink areas, or negative space to draw the eye to focus on what little is there.

To be done:
Insert images within the circular place holders in the brochure
Print off documents to see how they look in black in white with the different variation of colors