Betrayal!

For our graphic design one class we were given this assignment where we had to interact with high school kids. They were studying the concept of betrayal in their class, and each of them had a short write up on a personal experience with betrayal. we were suppose to talk to one on one with a student and them design a spread telling their story.

At first i didn't see the point of this project. i mean these incidents are painful to remember n why would you ever want a book to constantly remind you of it? (I still don't get that part. ) and secondly i was like why do we have to interact with high school kids? why not any other client? or why cant we just do a project for fun!

It was only after we did the project that i realized that when you interact with high school kids you can really relate to them and you get extremely emotionally involved in the project! If we had to this project just for fun I would have never put in as much thought and made as many corrections and revisions to it! so i guess it was a really good exercise in understanding emotional involvement in a project and also learning where to draw the line!

THe other good thing about this project was that we were given a lot of limitations! we were only allowed to use red black and white and we were allowed to use only one typeface. think about it. u can always use colors and fonts n make a design look pretty. but when u have these limitation, you have to think of a concept to make the design strong.