New Pattern Design

After spending quite a bit of time working on a new pattern, here is what I've come up with:

This is the original pattern that Greg said looked like skulls. I didn't see it until he said something to me, but now I see it every time I look at it.



This is the first pattern that I tried after Greg asked me to change it. I emailed this one to him and Greg Oswell, but Greg Gitter told me that he didn't like it because he could still see the skulls. Oswell suggested I make a pattern with the diamonds from the G&A logo, which I thought was a good idea.



Here I played around with the diamonds and took out the "skull" design completely. This one still didn't look quite right to me.



Here is a pattern that I tried with just the diamonds from the logo. It's very simple, and I thought a little too simple, and not at all the look that I was going for.



This is the pattern that I wound up favoring over all of the others. It is more simple, but still interesting to look at, and it has an elegant quality that I have been trying to achieve with the marketing materials for G&A.

I emailed the last two patterns to Greg Gitter and Greg Oswell to review, and they both agreed that they liked the second one better. I spent a little longer applying the new pattern to my previous designs.

Meeting With Greg Gitter

This morning I had a meeting with the president, Greg Gitter, and the office manager, who I work closely with, Lisa. We discussed several things, mainly that I will be able to work more hours as an office assistant once the semester is over. Greg told me that he's very happy with all of the work that I've been doing, and he has been looking over some of it. He mentioned that in the baroque-looking pattern I had made, it looked like skulls. Somewhat jokingly, he told me that he didn't want to give people the wrong impression about the company. He asked me to fix it.

I will be working on that for the rest of the day. I have a few ideas to try that he might be happier with.

Marketing Folders

I met with Greg Oswell today to discuss the graphics projects that I have been working on. I showed him a couple of different versions of the marketing folder that I have had time to work on in the past couple of weeks. We decided on one that he definitely favored over the others. That one looks like this:

We have also been in the process of deciding on the best way to present the inside content for the folders. I designed a layered look that he also really liked. We were going to try to created the pages with tabs that looked like folders so that it would tie into the website, but we both decided that we liked the other layered design better:

I am waiting for him to get back to me now before I work on these anymore. He told me that he and the president of the company, Greg Gitter, are going to discuss and draft more content to add to the pages in the folders since some of them are somewhat empty.

More Website Work

I spent my time today working on a Flash animated menu for the website so that we could use the buttons I designed with sub-menus. I had a hard time finding tutorials online for this, and I was kind of on my own. Finally, I got to the point where I had the buttons animated correctly, but I had no idea how to apply action script to them so that they would actually function as buttons to navigate around a website. I emailed the marketing director, and explained this to him. He told me that if I was not able to get the Flash menu to work with my buttons, then we could settle for the spry menu in Dreamweaver.

By this time, I had concluded to myself that I somewhat favored the look of the spry menu over the buttons that I had designed. The spry menu really looks nice, and it works just as if it was created in Flash. I finished adding the spry menu to the site page, but I ran out of time to work on anything more today.