The personal touch story really spoke to me as a college student who lives three hours away from home. I wanted to incorporate the idea of staying together and connected. To do this, I used the stereotypical idea of letters, as a means of staying in touch, with new technology. The illustration I made is an iPad with matching pen to depict a faux letter to someone’s grandma about their college experience and how they can stay instantly in touch. The colors are soft and pink, to resemble to the feeling of home and being with your loved ones. The pen is tilted to try and give the illusion that it wrote the first letter of the article. For the second spread, I wanted to keep a visual consistency, so I made two iPhones to depict the side bar text.

This project was rather difficult for me as I do not have much experience with magazine or newspaper layouts, but I feel like it helped me understand the ideas a bit more. InDesign is a program I know how use but not how to utilize, and I feel that through this project I got a little bit closer to that.