When I first started this project, I wasn’t really thinking that far out of the box. The designs that I came up with were too simple and done way too many times. It felt like the cliche pictures and quotes that I saw all over the internet. I also had trouble picking what color I should be using that goes along with the picture.

The first design I was going to use was nice and simple, and it looked nice on the page, but even I could tell that it really wasn’t something to look at twice. After Professor looked at it, he also said that now I should take some risks with my design. After that, I thought of some different ideas. I then cut the balloon in half and put the quote in it using the Baskerville typeface in a small size. I had tried the different typefaces and thought that Baskerville in bold looked the best with the quote. The color was a dark blue, and it also seemed to work very well with the entire composition. Then I made the spacing a little wider so it felt like the air was going through the text as it rose in the balloon. After I did this, it looked nice, but I didn’t think it was complete. I then added the quote on repeat in the background in white text, all caps and bigger than my quote in blue so there was some contrast and the words did not seem to collide. The quote faded as it went down, so it had the illusion of clouds or fog and the hot air balloon rose through the sky.

In conclusion, I learned that sometimes your first idea is not the best. I learned that I should take risks even if the end does not look okay. In my case, I actually came up with a design that I liked a lot. In the future, I will learn to think up different ideas and to play more with those ideas instead of just keeping it simple.