Quinnipiac Assignment #8 – J-Krak Blog
This week, we did not have to record a video for J-Krak content marketing. Instead, my partner, Kim Scroggins, and I created a J-Krak blog for our ‘client’. We will be adding content to it. I hope you will read what we have to say.
Our main concern, to start with, was to properly design the blog. To that end, we spent some time crafting a representative logo. This was an image of a vinyl record (it was simply a Creative Commons image that Kim had found online somewhere), and then adding verbiage over it, in a free use font. We did spend some time going back and forth over font selection.
We wanted something that would be somewhat edgy but would also be clear to read. And we did not want it to appear amateurish in any way.
Images
Another activity was to obtain as many free use Creative Commons images as possible which could somewhat generically evoke music and musicians. This was done as, sometimes, there are no good images for a particular blog post or another. The concept was to have some of the ‘port in a storm’ images so that we could put some sort of an image into each and every blog post.
I also took some pictures with the camera in my cell phone. The quality was all right, although these images will certainly not win any prizes for their somewhat dubious artistry. These were images of things like a stack of compact discs, a bunch of vinyl long-playing records, a number of single records, and CDs in a holder.
J-Krak Blog
As we continue in this class, I am sure that we will add more media and will change the design, in addition to adding content.
Thank you all for following!
Nine Years Later…
It continues to be impressive to me that Kim made a decent logo. It still looks pretty professional. What did I learn?
Well, for one thing, I have learned that I am no visual designer. That’s for sure.