Self Promotional Notepad

Purpose:

This self promotional notepad is a piece in which I designed a notepad for future employers so they could first hand see some of my skills.

This notepad is 7 x 5 inches, black ink only, with no bleed.  The notepad was printed 50 pages per pad and has a chip board back.  Each pad was $1.86 each and took one business day to make and to print the pad they needed a packaged file which I did in InDesign.  Black ink was chosen because it is cheaper than a 4 color notepad would be.  I printed 3 notepad and the final price was $5.58.

Copyright Statement:
All of the the artwork was created by me in Adobe Illustrator except for the eye and it is a Adobe Photoshop brush which was downloaded from brusheezy.com. 

Inspiration:
The inspriation for my notepad was my new found skill in Illustrator.  For the longest time I struggled with the software and now I am becoming more and more comfortable with the fact that I can draw it will just take some time. The pencil in the notepad went with the doodle theme because I use a pencil to write.  The ghost was something I had recently drawn for t-shirt in my screen printing class and I was really proud of the little guy so I included him in my design.  I used the eye instead of the letter to give it more an informal theme which is what I was going for with the doodling.  I love hearts so I had to put one of those in my design, because hearts really describe me and I like to include them in designs if they fit.  And lastly I used Wiesbaden Swing as my font because it really gave the feel that I had wrote the text myself.