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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Exact change only: Coach busses no longer compatible with UPass

NOTE: The information detailed in this article have been outdated as of today. For the sake of copyright, I couldn't change anything. To view further information on this article, visit http://www4.uwm.edu/parking/

Commuting students from the Waukesha or Kenosha/Racine areas no longer get a free ride to and from campus due to a contract change effective May 16.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Student Association (SA) recently repealed its contract with Coach USA in order to cut costs. The alternatives for students who take that bus on a regular basis, however, may not be as cost-efficient as they had hoped.

The SA, along with the Parking & Transit department, decided it would be best to save approximately $90,000 in segregated fees by changing the contract. This fee covered student riders as well as inclusion of the UWM campus as a stop on the Waukesha and Kenosha/Racine routes.

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Mass-technology has hidden cost

I’ll be the first to say that the moment I leave a class, ear buds are in and the iPod is turned up to a pretty loud volume. I fully realize that this form of “artistry,” as I’d like to call it, makes me completely inaccessible and hard to approach.

When I’m not fiddling around with my iPod, I’m on the phone or reading a book. (Yes, I read when I walk to class. I don’t bump into things...usually.) I can’t walk down the street without seeing 90 percent of other students with an iPod or cell phone attached to their ear(s). Regardless of my involvement in the problem, it almost disgusts me that our society has become this technologically dependent.

I wouldn’t say I’m a follower by any means. I was the very last in my circle of friends to own an iPod, after all, and I had my reasons for finally buckling down, spending the exorbitant amount of money and buying the little green iPod that now barely holds any of my music.

In addition, I love my little flip phone and use it constantly. It’s another device which I paid an exorbitant amount of money for. But it only adds to the inaccessibility that, not only me, but everyone feels all over campus.

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‘Alternative Press Tour’ fails to make good on promises

I rarely leave a concert thinking ill of the majority of bands that played, but “The Alternative Press tour” last Friday at The Rave’s Eagles Ballroom was definitely an exception.

The tour featured opening acts, Forever the Sickest Kids, Sonny, and The Matches, coupled with co-headliners, The Rocket Summer and All Time Low. By the end, I was less than impressed with the bands chosen, save one.

Bombarding the crowd early was an uncomfortably loud, and haphazard mash-up of noises by Forever the Sickest Kids. Though trying to keep an open mind, any and all patience quickly wore thin in the ensuing musical mess.

You know a band is maybe too emo when all the members have longer hair than a majority of the girls in the crowd. Such was the case with the next opener, Sonny. I applauded his attempt at falsetto singing, but the only people who should really go that high are Anthony Green from Circa Survive or Tom Chaplin of Keane.

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A Perfect Fit: We The Living Rocks Milwaukee

With one album under their belts, We The Living has been doing a great job at making a name for themselves.

This Wisconsin-native-currently-living-in-LA band left the crowd, and a few floors up and down Channel in Sandburg Hall, awed by their melodic and hard-to-place sound last Monday.

Lead singer John Paul (J.P.) Roney and drummer Ben Schaefer began as The Profits at the University of Wisconsin. They released their first album, “The Sign of the Dollar,” in 2004, and their second, “Far From You and Your Everyday Noise,” in 2005.

After two of their bandmates left, they added Matt Holmen on guitar and Stefan Benkowski (later to be Jasper Smith, who played Monday night) on bass and became We The Living.

Since then they’ve recorded and released, and re-released, “Heights of Heaven,” an entrancing and amazingly heart-melting album that I’ve not been able to stop listening to since I first heard it about 12 hours before seeing them live. I got a chance to catch up with the band as they arrived on campus and started getting set up. The guys play a different venue every night and have played 250 shows this year and cannot imagine it any other way. “Days off are horrible” said Ben. Matt and Jasper had little space to work with on the stage but they made their presence known. During Matt’s solos and the interludes, the lights would change and his hands looked like they were moving a mile a minute on that guitar and Jasper’s facial expressions were a mixture of concentration and excitement.



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I'll be featuring works from my Document Design class this past Fall 2009 semester as well as articles I've written for The UWM Post.

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