Student Planner Cover Design:

1. Understanding the Problem

Our first problem is what we need for our final product for this project. The school is looking for a student planner cover design for the 2018-2019 school year. With this, we need to include the school name, the school colors, and school logo. Anything else we add, is up to us. We have been told to look at other examples of student planners, and use ideas from those planners.

2. Research and Investigate

Most planner designs are very abstract, colorful, creative, and fun. Most of our planners in the past, have been very boring and generic. Not very creative or anything that catches your eye. Although they aren't very eye catching, they get the point across and gives the planner the right message toward the audience. 

3. Generate Possible Solutions

I did some further research and found some cool pictures I could put in the background of my planner cover. I looked at Downtown Denver, I looked at Daniels Park, and I looked at the Flatirons in Boulder. I decided to use the picture of Downtown Denver because it is something that catches my eye. It is something that is important to us coloradans and is a major spot in our state.

5. Modle and Prototype

At the prototype stage, I threw in the Downtown Denver image and started building my planner cover off of this. I placed a a black rectangle on top of the image and dropped the opacity leaving a dark grey filter over the image. This gave me an opportunity to place text on top of the image and still have the letters show the contrast i wanted in my design.

6. Test and Evaluate

Once I was done with my prototype, I started to evaluate my project and how I could make it better. With this I changed the font like I said above in the 4th stage of the design process. I also added a strip of our school colors behind the falcon to add a little something to my project.

7. Produce