Every year, Southeast Technical College hosts a portfolio show for the media communication majors to strut their stuff in front of potential employers. Every year, the graphic designers each design their own identity for the show and vote on which will be used.
We’ll be looking more in-depth at the sign-in slips and sign I designed.
Sign-in Sign
The sign was fairly straightforward. We have this plastic paper holder that displays upright whatever you put in it. I measured the dimensions of that object and took off 0.25 inches on all sides for my artboard. I took off the 0.25 inches so that it would slide in/out more easily.
To get the hand-placed feeling, I typed out the word in the correct color and font, and sized it in InDesign to the correct measurements according to my artboard. Then I took it into Illustrator and converted the type to shapes. Then I manually rotated and misaligned the individual letters until it looked right! After that, I copy and paste it back into my InDesign document.
Sign-in Slips
One common issue I see in slips is not enough space to enter your information fully. To combat this, I made sure to have the line go across the entire slip and have all that area available to write in.
Since we are working with limited space, we can use color and size to our advantage. I made the important detail of “If industry then…” the only item that is a specific color, and put it in its own white space.
We use the same orange as the sign-in sign to know where to put these slips once filled out.