THESE PAGES HAD BEGUN to gather dust because other posts seem more newsworthy…at the time. My granddaughters would beg to differ and inform me that the release of the latest and last Harry Potter flick is big news. Sorry for the delay, Kristin!
FROM KRISTIN:
Hi Ed,
Thought I would send along my latest “Harry Potter” pages. We made two fronts (one for C and one for D). I wanted them to look similar but give them each a different feel. I hope everyone likes, but I love criticism, so let me hear it.
FROM ED:
1. I like the use of the eyeglasses at the top right.
2. Good choice of the headline typeface.
3. The poster art at the bottom helps to make the page, as does your use of the cloudy gay frame around the entire package.
FROM ED:
1. Nice work at repeating the gray frame from the previous page.
2. Good use of the photos and art. Any significance to the hexagonal frames on the bottom grouping?
3. I like the way you picked up the Harry Potter logo as part of the headline/label.
4. The design of the two fronts is similar, though not copycat. I like the way that works.
BRILLIANT!!!
I really, really love both of these pages! It would have been easy, actually very easy, to overdo these pages, but you showed tremendous restraint and came up with two award-worthy pages!!
Thanks Ed, to answer your question about the hexagonal images, well, they were originally attached to a even bigger graphic idea that I had in mind. After I thought about it a little, I realized that the graphic just wasn’t going to work with the space that I had, so, I nixed the graphic, but I really wanted to keep the photos. I am such a big “Potter” head that I just couldn’t resist putting some of the movies most memorable characters out there too for the final film.
Kudos.I’d also say that it was a good contrast to use Potter on one section front and Voldemort on the other, or can I not write his name either :)