My proudest works of this school year

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This is an advertisement created for my first semester Non-Fiction (English) class. The computer program I use is Photoshop CS3.

This is a shoe’s ad that shows women’s empowerment. The content of the image and the written materials are the two main techniques I used in this advertisement.
The content of this image shows confidence. I chose rainbow colors for the background to demonstrate different atmospheres. Each color represents certain meanings, emotions, feelings, and thoughts; therefore I call these representations as atmospheres. If the audiences look carefully enough, there are small, thin arrow lines pointing everywhere, which is another representation of choosing paths they love. In this ad, I try to include women from different ethnicity, body shape, occupation, and age. This means that every woman should be happy with herself. They should live the path they’ve chosen with confidence and smile!
The written material includes a quote by Geraldine Ferrano and a slogan I created. The idea I am trying to convey to the audience is the empowerment of women. Women have the right to choose the path they want, especially the road of equality. The slogan seem normal but the meaning behind it is not only “Wear what you love and walk with confidence”, but also “choose what you love to do and do it with confidence.”

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Another piece of work is the design for Yearbook "news" pages:

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I've been a Yearbook staff member for two years. I didn’t have a chance to create my own design for the first year in the Yearbook club. Fortunately, the second year (2007-08), I get to design my own design! I am responsible for the World News page and Taiwan News page in the Yearbook club. I had to summarize and gather important events that happened during the year and come up with a design for these pages. I made the design with a program called Photoshop CS3. I enjoyed making the design because I love graphic arts and digital creations.
For the World News page, I’m trying to create a feeling of old, yellowish paper like texture for the background. The composing of the whole content is like a real news paper where you would find blocks of news passages.
Although, my design is not on the finished product, which is the Yearbook, I still had fun creating this piece of work!