Document Design: The Manual Page

Finally, before our final portfolios were due, we created the manual page. This was a page lifted from a Micro-Biology course book from the 1960s that was still being used today. It was hard to read, in a typeface that was microscopic and the layout wasn't conducive to healthy learning, so we were tasked with making it easier to read.

Placed on one page is the information needed before beginning the lab, as well as any other information concerning the microbes one should be looking at. Finally the procedure and final results to the lab are on this layout. I wanted to use a modern layout because, if the student looking at this lab is anything like me, they want to be able to do it without any confusion on what they're supposed to be doing next.

Document Design: The Brochure

Next came my favorite piece- the Writing Center Brochure.

We were given all the text and information concerning this brochure and set off on our way. I knew I wanted to keep it modern but find a way to make the brochure interesting. I played with colors in the same typeface and used indentations and whatnot to make it visually interesting. I found that the more fascinating it is, the more students may want to read it and use it as a resource to get help with their writing assignments for classes.

The brochure is meant to be printed double-sided, and the folds will be clear.

FAQ's and 'what can you expect- all of these panels are on the inside of the brochure


The front and back covers and the inside panel (when the brochure is opened, you'll see this information)

Document Design: The Flier

Next we had to create a flier for a DanceWorks production from a dance teacher here at UWM as well as a couple professors of Music at UWM. I was interested in this flier since it was the first time we were able to use our own pictures, found via the Creative Commons on Flickr, MorgueFile etc.
I chose a picture of contemporary dance from the Creative Commons on Flickr and I love it a lot. It took a lot of tweaking but I'm finally happy with the final outcome of this product.

Document Design: The Form

The next assignment we had was to design a form for an international patient intake form. I wanted this to be incredibly easy and straightforward so the patient would feel at ease while filling it out so they would know their information was not going to be shared with anyone but the people in the office or the insurance company.

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Document Design: The Tiles

This was the first assignment for my Document Design class. I was terrified of this class but once I started learning more about the programs we'd have to do, I found that creating these tiles became relatively easy.

The tiles are created for a unisex bathroom. I viewed these as needing to be gender neutral but still interesting to look at. We were given free reign over the design but had one caveat: we could use one letter and one typeface per tile.

Don’t pity Hillary!

While also airing clips of "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" from the musical "Evita," News Radio AM 620 broadcast a despondent, tired and close-to-tears Sen. Hillary Clinton in an ad which first appeared in Texas, where the presidential hopeful is getting a head start for the March 4 primary.

This ad, also found on www.hillaryclinton.com and titled "Lifetime," seems to be a repeated attempt to win a state after the New Hampshire tear-up victory in early February.

Okay, so she could have been talking about something she was passionate about, but does someone seem a little tired? Maybe a little too stressed out?

Maybe she realized that what happened in New Hampshire was actually helpful for her so she's trying for pity votes. I don't think that's how someone who is attempting to make history should really go about doing so.

The tear-jerking video from New Hampshire can be viewed on YouTube, but really, it's not anything we haven't heard before. How many of you girls have cried to get out of speeding tickets?

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New student government party splitting off of SUFC: Students’ segregated fees may have been used for upcoming political campaign:

Copies of a document found on a shared student organization printer may have been created in violation of certain bylaws. The document outlines the officers and platform of a yet-unannounced student political party and was likely printed with student segregated fees.

Three Students United for Change (SUFC) party members are listed as members of the new and unofficial Students for Responsible Government (SRG) party. A.J. Piwarun (SRG President), Tyler Draheim (SRG Vice President) and Alysson Wartick (SRG Chief of Staff) are current Student Association (SA) members and presently belong to SUFC. In addition to naming the officers of SRG, the document also goes on to outline the basic platform of the party. Plans apparently include repealing cuts to the Women’s Resource Center and the LGBT Resource Center – listed as the party’s top priority, limiting government positions and repairing the image of both the SA and the conservative movement.

The document, which was brought to the Post by three anonymous SA members who discovered it, also lists several names in parentheses next to various SRG party positions. These appear to be people SRG plans to recruit to fill these vacant positions. The sources said they are concerned because these parenthetical names belong to several members of the SA who have no knowledge of the new party or any intention to participate in it (these names have been redacted from the document as printed here to protect those named).

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