1/27

I have been working this past week and weekend on taking all the text and statistics that I have gotten from the city and trying to turn it into spreads that will go into my book. So far I am pretty happy with the results. I am also somewhat on schedule which is nice. I got a late start due to the city not getting me the information until about 5 days after I had asked for it.
I got about 4 spreads done by yesterday. I hope to have 4 more spreads done this week which makes me 2/3 done designing the book. I sent these spreads to the city today and am hoping to get responses by the end of the week.


This is the table of contents and the introduction talking about the reader's ecological footprint.


This is a spread about energy efficiency including a few tips on how to be energy efficient and an information graphic on greenhouse gasses produced in the city of Ann Arbor.


This spread continues to talk about energy efficiency in the form of renewable energy. Then it transitions into the next section talking about 'Zero Waste.'


This is part of the next spread dealing with alternative transportation.

Week of 1/19

This week I have spent a lot of time working and reworking my thesis. I think I have it at a good place.

I have been in a holding pattern with my book until today when I got a good portion of the information to go in the book from the city. I have started thinking of how I want this book to go together. So, I have begun with my table of contents.

Work over break.

Over the break I spent most of my time working on the handbook for the City of Ann Arbor. Below are three of the spreads I have completed. These will obviously go through many revisions but this is where the design is at right now.

I had a meeting with the city today and they like what I have done. At the moment they are gathering more information and getting back to me with it next Friday. We have decided that the booklet will be about 28 pages. We will use 2 colors and 2 screens of those colors.











Also over break I completed the poster/mailer for U of M Housing. I have a meeting with them this coming Monday. We will discuss another poster maybe tackling the topic of conservation and a small booklet of 2-4 pages.