Final Assignment: Meliorist Re-Design

Here is my final assignment, the redesign of the Meliorist. For this assignment I tried a variety of different things but finally settled on using a sort of "zine" style with a very informal feel, the way I think a student paper should be. I tried to keep it bright to catch people's eye as they walk by and also give it a youthful feel that would make the student population want to read the paper since, right now, not a lot of people do.

I chose to use the Abortion and Head Shave stories as my articles because they are both something that the students at the U of L care a lot about. The abortion issue is a heavily debated issue here and I thought I should try and represent it my own way. As well, the Head Shave was a huge event and something that our University should be proud of because they raised $38 ooo which is amazing.
For the cover I wanted it to look kind of like a notebook that had been scribbled all over and spilled on. I am pretty happy with how it turned out.;

RIOT GRRRLS!

Riot Grrrls are part of a feminist movement in the third wave that is fueled by art/music/zines, etc. They use punk rock and other underground methods as a way to express themselves regarding feminist issues. Many women in this movement started bands regardless of their musical abilities and publishing their own zines to say exactly what they wanted to. Being hardcore seemed to be a fairly important part of being a riot grrrl which meant you had to be able to rock out and just kick ass in general.

The main issue that these feminists seemed to address was sexism and sexual abuse against women. It also tackled issues such as male dominance in the punk music scene. Most of the Riot Grrrl bands formed wrote their songs about these issues and looked for a change.

Frank Lloyd Wright.. but with less angles.

So for my architecture assignment I chose to redo Frank Lloyd Wright's "Falling Water" which was designed privately for a couple in Pennsylvania but is now a museum. I picked it because I think his designs are very neat and very creative. I thought I would redo it by changing it from being angular, to being very soft. I did this by using nice pastel colours and the charcoal and watercolour brushes. This was the first time I really experimented with the different brushes so it was a good experience for me. I am learning more about Illustrator by the day. I also experience some major difficulties with this assignment because my pirated version of this program at home decided to crap out on me and I ended up not being able to save, and since I am forgetful, I ended up losing a lot. However, the only way I could salvage my work was to use the trusty print screen which unfortunately made it lose a LOT of quality. But I didnt have time to totally redo it so I have to settle, I guess. Oh well.