This week I worked on developing another flyer for the African department of citytech working with Dr. Ferdinand. The flyer is for AFR 1462 Blacks in Science, Technology, and Business. The brief I was given was simply to make another promotional flyer akin to my prior work with the client except by collecting images of black scientists, technologists and professionals.
Since everything at Faculty Commons represents the college as a whole, it of course, as with any design job, is problematic to simply steal photos. To avoid this, I used Pexels.com which is my go to for free stock photography. Unfortunately it is hard to find any truly free stock photo sites so I always use this one when I can. With this being the only site I use for free stock photos I often hit walls searching for very specific photos This can sometimes lead to a long process of searching and then locking in on different search keywords to find exactly what I am looking for.
All in all I only managed to find about 10 photos which matched my specifications on top of having a good angle to design for. I then imported the photos into Photoshop to make the backgrounds transparent for each image to start my design process in Indesign.
Below I attached some cutouts I created as well as a look at Pexels.
