Oops

I just realized I hadn't formatted the blog to automatically forward comments to my e-mail account. I also changed it so people can leave anonymous comments-- which means you don't have to register with blogger to leave a comment or you can use that function if you have some particularly nasty critiques. :)

8 mostly finished pages!

Totem Pages: in progress

Okay, I spent some time this afternoon going through people's suggestions and making edits to the graphics. I haven't hit everything on people's lists yet because... well, it's time to get ready for class. But I thought I'd post what I've got thus far. I'm really happy how the bear and raven are turning out-- the frog still needs some attention.

Totem Chart: Updated

How do you spell the sound that a tree frog makes?

Chart introducing the 4 totems

All 8 pages, more or less

Review me please! I know I still have some tweaks and additions to do, but this should give a pretty good overview of the designs.

Pacific Tree Frog:




Black Bear:




Raven



Mountain Goat

Poets on the Peak: Raven

Marieke- which one is the Gary Snyder poem? Am I looking at the right copy? In the edits, it looks like this is supposed to be 2 pages?

Site Survey Activity: Mtn Goat Booklet

This layout is pretty much set- I just need to add a photograph of a fisher in the dark blue box. Also, add a silhouette of a fisher along side the mountain goat (indicated by the small blue rectangle).

Marieke- can you think of some quick question/answer dialogue between the two?

Junior Ranger Matching: Black Bear booklet

Last posts of the night

These are for the Junior Ranger Matching page (Black Bear). I'm really enjoying building these icons. Obviously, the flying squirrel is my favorite (or maybe it's just because of the late hour):







More to come tomorrow. Night night!

Intro Totem Animal Pages

Note: the actual illustrations of the totem animals are still in progress--but you can get a general feeling for how/where they are going to fit on the page.


I moved some of the content around in the frog description. I try not to editorialize too much and just stick to design, but it's inevitable that I want to throw my own two cents in...


The black bear page feels a bit too text heavy compared to the other pages. I would have more flexibility to work with the text if I moved down from a 12 pt to a 10pt font (like the "What is a Totem" sidebar), but for children this young, I don't think we should go any smaller. For the Raven and Mtn Goat booklets, I think it's okay to have smaller text and/or longer text passages.




The black text in the blue bar says:
"Mountain Goats are quite skilled at balancing on rocky ledges and can fit all four hooves on rocks as small as 2” by 6”, about the size of this blue box"

Animal Tracks

If anyone has an image of a tree frog footprint for me to work off of, I'd greatly appreciate it!


Note: tracks are not to scale.

Ready to Edit:

Other Visual Elements to use

Basic Visual Elements

Applying the two basic colors to page numbers and activity sidebars.
From top down, Pacific Tree Frog, Black Bear, Raven, and Mountain Goat: