What I Did This Semester/ Writing and Design for Digital Platforms

Website/ Charm City Vegan (click on the screenshot to see the live webpage)

Blog/ Vinyl Kisses (click on logo to go to live blog)

HTML E-mail Advertisement and Landing Page

Promotional E-mail

Covers and Blogs and Websites, Oh My!!!

I've been taking an extended absence of sorts from blogging here on BethBeat, and soon you all will see why! It's been an incredibly hectic semester for me filled with lots of fun things like DreamWeaver website disasters (lesson learned-code it yourself!) and uninspired blog ideas, in addition to lots and lots of revisions for lots and lots of magazines.  Lots of working, lots of learning, and more trial and error than I could ever imagine.

The semester's ending a week earlier than I had anticipated (quite the pleasant surprise!) and you'll all soon be dazzled with the work I've been producing over the last few months, but for now here's a sneak peak of what I'm working on now:

Beat Magazine:
(Redesign of Rolling Stone Magazine)

Vinyl Kisses:
(Vinyl Collecting Blog)

See the full blog here.

Charm City Vegan:
(Content rich website)

See the website-in-progress here.

Carrot Love

I made this graphic for my website today and couldn't resist sharing it with the blogosphere.

Inspired by overhearing  an argument  on "The Real Housewives of..." reunion and thinking to myself "Wow these women even fight about *carrots*??" when they were actually fighting about carats of a rock, not the root, I decided to veganize our beloved Baltimore heros:

A work in progress...

For my "Writing and Design for the Digital Environment" class we've been working on creating content-rich websites.  Inspired by my 30-day vegan challenge I decided to make a vegan related website entitled "Charm City Vegan".  This website is a forum for the local vegan community including vegan-friendly businesses and organizations that has some useful information and resources for the novice vegan.  Today I created a mock up of what the home page is going to look like.  I was excited about it at first (who doesn't like construction paper cut-outs??) but now realize it needs some work.  Tell me what you think (if you can see it, that is--the jpg looks a little tiny).

Charm City Vegan Logo!

Just made this logo for a website I'm working on for my digital design class.  Took a lot of trial and error but I'm pretty happy with the end result:

To make this I scanned in construction paper and cut it out in photoshop, and added some masks to my type.  I think it gives it a playful yet earthy feel.  Maybe I should get rid of that cat hair stuck in there though!