Creative Cv

Idea Generation

For this Cv I came up with a couple of different layout ideas.

 Caris suggested having a logo to go with a quote, she suggested a diamond, but I wasn't sure this would give the right impression, I explained she didn't want to come across superficial. So We settled with pentagon shapes in the CV. I was going to do multiple attempts of the layout, but she was really impressed with the first attempt so we just kept tweaking it.

As you can see this is just a small snapshot of the tweaks we went through, I actually forgot to screenshot half of them. Towards the end it gets to small things like text alignment and indentations that are barely noticeable. I think although some people may find this annoying I actually revelled in making the tweaks because I knew that it was making Caris happy, and also I think it made her realise how much I care about it for her. Now it'll be interesting to see what feedback she gets on it on the 27th of april. 

Also before giving it to her I had to save the backdrop as a JPG without text on and save it to a word document and add text boxes and download the font (Forum) which I chose on her laptop because she isn't very tech savvy, and this was the easiest way for her to edit because once she sent me the text, she obviously re read it a lot through the tweaks and realised she wasn't happy with it.

I don't think I would offer to do this task for anyone else unless I knew them really well because I think it's a very personal thing, and I think it requires a lot of knowledge about design that I don't really have I think I just have an eye for what looks okay but it's not amazing. I learnt a lot about what things text boxes can do with alignment in photoshop, I'm going to use these skills in my project report! I hope you notice! I think this will help improve my work. I was also able to download lots of cool free fonts although it's interesting how many allow personal but not business use. I've made a note of them because I respect the designers rights, I don't think I'd have the patience to design text. I sometimes wonder if I have enough patience to animate.

I also seeked the advice of Annabeth, and she suggested that maybe the alignment of the hexagons could go the other way, but I don't really have time to alter it, before she goes home for easter. Also she made a suggestion in the future of incorporating photo's from these events ( I know she doesn't have many) but this is a suggestion I've made for a future CV when she's got new experience's because she could totally do a polaroid range like this.