Designs

I'm going to be honest, I've never really understood why people could care so much about the cover art of any audio-based media. Of course, YouTube video thumbnails made sense to me, but I never paid attention to music artwork or the images in a podcast. Once I started making a podcast, though, it did make a lot more sense. When I was thinking about how I was going to make my cover art, I had one thing in mind: show the chaotic life of a teenager without having a person feeling panicked. It's a simple thing, but honestly, I think it conveys the message pretty well.

I've made fake products before but a lot of them were just answering a question and there's was little to no originality to it. For my Advertising and Publications class, I was finally given full control. I thought about my life and what I constantly struggled with: makeup, it was a constant struggle to get my makeup to look right. The whole asthetic of the logo is based on the 2000s, specifically the early 2000s, which I was born in.

As someone who spends a bit too much time on the internet and currently lives near a highway, ads are a constant in my life. There are buildboards, videos and of course random picture ads that pop up when I play games on a computer or on my phone. I kinda brushed them off a lot, of course a few would grab my attention but that was a rarity. When I was assigned to make a fake ad for a company, I learned that everything in an ad is intentional, from the colors to the phrasing. Of course this one is for a company that doesn't need publicity from someone who only buys the product, but I wanted to use a business that I genuinely get every once in a while.

Logos for myself have changed drastically; I've put my whole name on some, others just my online name, or a letter that I thought looked cool. In my senior year of high school, I was put into a class that helped students prepare for the school's annual senior showcase. My teacher wanted professionalism from all of the people in my class, which led to me taking the usual, fancy letter "O" into my full name and unofficial titles with a bit of a spin to it. The text, while partially written, is also drawn, which gives it a professional yet charming appearance.