For the second assignment, I was tasked to update Elizabeth Sutton’s press kit. Basically, the press kit holds every single article that mentions Elizabeth and her work. So the article I had to work on was “The Party Never Stops for Patrick McMullan | New York Social Diary“. Part of the task was to gather pictures that feature Elizabeth as well as clippings from the article that mention her name. From there, I had to create a layout that had to be approved by Jade. The catch with this assignment is to create a hyperlink so that it links to the actual link. The issue wasn’t making the hyperlink; it was ensuring that all hyperlinks worked in the PDF file created when packaging the InDesign file. I found out that when you export a file as an interactive PDF file, the links can be accessed. However, another part of my frustration with this task was being told that links were missing even though I never touched any links apart from the one I had created. Also, some links were linked to URLs that no longer exist. So, I had to communicate this issue with Jade.
Here’s the page I worked on for the press kit:
On November 10th, I was tasked once again to update Elizabeth Sutton’s press kit, but this time, work on two layouts. Jade emphasized that everything needed to be aligned with one another.
I’m trying to add more details to make the layout look more “professional”. I really like how I did the phone mockup for the Instagram post. It took a little time to get right, but I’m happy with how it turned out.