By February 14th,  you should have  at least  2 concepts to show  for this visually enhanced quotation project. They can be sketches or they can be done on the computer. Please upload sketches to Blackboard–you can take a picture using your phone. Or, you can upload a jpeg if you did them on the computer. Your visual quote project will be designed for a print postcard and should be 8.5″X 5.47″, which is the large postcard size sold by Vistaprint. It can be designed either landscape or portrait but be sure to design your concepts with this trim size in mind.  Review this website for conceptual examples of visually enhanced quotations (they are at a different size on this page).

When you draw your concepts, they should be put on a sheet of paper cut to the appropriate size. You can use collage or cut or paste type in the design you would like, using colored pencils to show color. If you know Indesign or Illustrator, you can use those programs to do your designs. Be sure to set up your document to the size specified in these programs and to use the print layout template. It is always best to try initial concepts by sketching first. If you are not familiar with Indesign, see the free tutorials on Adobe programs at and some free Lynda videos. Again, If you draw your concepts by hand, take a photo of your sketches using your phone to submit for your initial two concepts.

You are to pick a quote (can be from a poem, song, book, movie, etc.) and you need to come up with two concepts for visually enhancing that quotation for a postcard of 8.5″ X 5.47″. One concept must have typography only or typography with line art. The second concept may contain a photographic image. The first part of this project will involve simply sketching the concepts.