Print Designs

LINGO - Leave It In The Ground Report of Oil and Gas Drilling

I volunteer my time at Catchafire from time to time. This project was one of those to which I gave my time.
 
LINGO deals with reporting on how many oil and natural gas projects have or will encroach upon protected natural sites around the world. They keep a record of what companies are doing and where, as well as the impacts they have on the environment around them. The goal is to convince leaders and those with influence to curb or stop further damage and expansion of these projects.
 
This report did get printed out and handed to people at the United Nations and at meetings held in Europe.
 
The imagery was provided by the organization and were location specific. They had obtained satellite imagery as well as scenery from various natural locations, which are included throughout.
 
The pages shown are only an excerpt of a larger report. I chose a variety of column widths, depending on the content. With my editorial background from working at ASTM International, I had a very good grasp on how to prepare a layout to appear as an article.
 
Sometimes there was a lot more text than could fit within one page.
 
I eventually found a table setup that would work. Originally, I had fewer columns of information, but the client insisted on including everything.
 
I wanted to give a lot of room for the images where I could. Additionally, there were a lot of footnotes that had to be included. There was a balancing act that I needed to maintain so that everything was in the right place.
 
The LINGO team was very pleased with the results and were happy to have a proper graphic designer design this document, which could have easily been boring to read.

 

ASTM Committee F47 Brochure

This brochure was for ASTM International Committee F47, which sets standards for Commercial Spacecraft. ASTM has committees dedicated to technology that may not be fully realized, yet, but it is important to set standards ahead of time, so that when a new technology does become available, it is safe and efficient. ASTM’s standards are voluntary and any group/company/organization can purchase these standards and be certified by ASTM.

This brochure utilizes stock imagery found on the NASA website as well as courtesy imagery from Virgin Galactic.

ASTM has a few different color palette options, which consist of primary and secondary colors that are meant to work together. For this brochure, I chose a cooler palette, that emphasizes blue and grey, which matches the space theme. The fonts are in ASTM’s branding. Even though the committees operate independently of ASTM, they use ASTM branding, so any and all materials created for committees reflect ASTM’s branding guidelines.

This brochure had a lot of information that needed to fit in a small area, so the challenge was to make it fit, but have enough negative space, as well as keeping the page count in mind, since this would be printed. The only page not shown is the back page.

ASTM Magazine StandardizationNews

One of my main responsibilities while working at ASTM was to create the magazine every two months. The magazine is called “StandardizationNews,” and discusses many topics, ranging from committee work, science, technology, medicine, and the environment.

Every January/February issue dedicates one of its feature wells to the new ASTM President. The features are where the most creativity is allowed since most of the magazine has fixed layouts for their sections.

I received the bank of photos from the in-house photo and video team, which I then edited for the magazine and laid out as shown. Sometimes, the lighting and coloring of photos can be off, so I will correct them as necessary by using Photoshop.

I worked closely with the editorial department, who would send me the content for the magazine. I would place the text and if there were any problems with the fit of the text, I would ask them to trim or abbreviate where they could.

In this particular layout, I wanted to keep the spreads the same to showcase what I could of the images. There were so many to choose from, but such limited space. The interview itself was short, so I was able to place the content wherever necessary to balance photo with imagery.

This and newer editions of “StandardizationNews” can be found on the organization’s website.