Self-Promotional Notepad Project

Our first project in Digital File Prep is a notepad that showcases what we do best. It also includes a QR code that links to this blog, so that your audience can see what other work you've done besides the notepad. You can view the information I have found on QR codes here.

My thumbnails:

My rough draft:

The rough draft is drawn to the actual size of what the final product will be. I have chosen to use the 2nd thumbnail shown as my final piece. I'm not quite sure what font I want my name to be in. I guess you'll have to wait to see the finished product! After all the trimming the image (which will be made in Illustrator) will be 3.5 inches by 3 inches and will have a light enough opacity so that whoever is using the notepad will be able to write over the image and see what they've written clearly. The image on the notepad will be a vector Illustrator image.

My target audience is anyone who needs website work or design work done for them, and I with also advertise that I can do some studio product photography. If they take a picture of the QR code with their smartphone, they can see most of the school work I've done, and they can also get information to contact me if they would like to see more.

The requirements for this project include: a 5x7 or 7x5 inch notepad with a 1/8 inch bleed, 50 pages for the notepad, along with padding and a corkboard backing. We will only be printing with black ink for this project and I will be printing on white paper. If I were to get 100 of these printed it would cost $131.43. To print a single notepad it would cost me $3.79.

All vector images (the illustration in the corner and the logo with my name) were created by me in Adobe Illustrator. I created the grayscale raster QR code that links to this blog on Kaywa.com.