Design Competition Reflection

1. My process in creating this design was to first research more on images that remind me of Millennium High School. After looking at the images I looked at the past Millennium Student Planners I received throughout the years. I wanted to see if there was any common themes included in the past ones. I noticed how there was always the Phoenix which isn't strange since it is our school's mascot. I knew I wanted to include the Phoenix so I started off my designs with that in mind. Overall my process was difficult in trying to create a design that creates almost a nostalgic feeling for Millennium. I wanted a design that was familiar but at the same time different. 

2. I created my design by keeping in mind my goal for the cover of the planner. My goal I wanted for the planner was to have all the students look at it and have that "Oh! It's Millennium!" effect. What I mean by that was that I wanted to combine the major elements that reminds everyone of Millennium. I found that it was our Phoenix mascot and our unique office building school. Even though the whole design is simple, I think it is actually very fitting for Millennium. Millennium, although looks very plain on the outside; on the inside consists of stern but wacky teachers, crazy students, and a powerful community.

3. I've mentioned the reason I chose the images I incorporated into the design in the writing above. I chose the text and font that I tried to imitate in my design from the Millennium website itself. It's a font and text that every Millennium student have seen whether alumni or current student everyone had to stare at those fonts for four years. The text reminded of a unity to Millennium. I chose this layout of the Phoenix rising from the office building because I wanted to parody our school phrase of "the Phoenix rising from the ashes" and allude to the fact that Millennium was opened after 9/11 which is something everyone in Millennium knows about. 

4. To be honest, I focused more on the Proximity and Alignment aspect of the design. In terms of Proximity, the design is very modern and fitting to the current time. Also, alignment I wanted the design to be very centered so that people's eyes would really travel from top to bottom and look at the design holistically.