Brochure Thumbnails #3.

 

Flyer Project Thumbnail Edits #3.

 

Flyer Project Thumbnails #2.

 

Help Assist Black American Women.

     According to Catalyst.org, previous evaluations have shown that black women living in America make up about 12.9% of the overall female population. Unfortunately, within the United States, black women have continuously gone under-appreciated, under-rated, and unrecognized.
  The incredibly courageous, heroic, and inspiring actions of Harriet Tubman as an abolitionist, public speaker, union civil war leader, leader of multiple open-door policy fundraisers, women's rights activist, and founder of the Harriet Tubman Home for The Aged has extraordinarily assisted the freedoms, rights, and well-being of American black women. Today, Kamala Harris's remarkable journey of becoming the first women of color to serve as the United States' Vice President is yet another influential story, as Harris was previously San Fransisco's first women of color to serve as their District Attorney, and also the second ever women of color to serve as the United States' Senator in 2016.

    Another evaluation that Catalyst.org analyzed upon their webpage was that in 2017-2018, the total percentage of black American women who earned their bachelor's degrees was at a 11.4%, which is a decreased percentage compared to the highest percentage reached back in 2011-2012 at 12.3%. Although many American citizens may not be in a politically active, justice enforcing, or socially influential position to help directly affect the many unethical and corrupt social issues in our nation, there are still many advantageous organizations that are providing support to black American women who are in need of assistance.

    These four organizations listed below primarily fight and address racial and gender barriers that black women and girls often encounter, design and develop projects to make social changes in their communities, promote social awareness campaigns through community leadership activities, and indorse health advocacy support systems. Ultimately, donations to these organizations will directly go towards improving participants' skills and knowledge about financial literacy, political policies, mental health services (along with self-care information), and by helping black American women receive true justice upon areas like economic marginalization and other social inequality circumstances.

#ABWA

(Assistance for Black Women of America)

Supporting Organizations:

The National Black Women's Justice Institute: nbwji.org 

Girls for a Change: girlsforachange.org 

The Loveland Foundation: thelovelandfoundation.org

GirlTrek: girltrek.org 

Thumbnail Designs:

Additional Resources:

Catalyst Reference: catalyst.org/research/women-of-color-in-the-united-states/ 

New York Times: nytimes.com/2020/11/07/us/politics/kamala-harris.html

Politico: politico.com/news/magazine/2020/08/11/kamala-harris-vp-background-bio-biden-running-mate-2020-393885 

YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=1DdtJKwh8oY 

Earth Day Membership.

    In April 1970, the Earth Day organization officially began their mission to help support and preserve our earth's environment. The Earth Day organization's overall mission is to diversify, educate, and activate the environmental movement amongst people and societies worldwide.

    The Earth Day organization contributes towards a variety of specific environmental causes and provides many educational material for individuals to engage with alone or with family and friends. The organization does not only offer a webpage that delivers quality information, but they also offer the opportunity for individuals to become a member.

    As many people choose to individually take care of our planet by possibly remembering to recycle or by planting some new trees, becoming a new member of the Earth Day organization comes with a bunch of rewarding benefits. By yearly donating funds to a specific category of support that you choose, first-and-foremost, you will be donating to a cause that will help earth's entirety.

    More specifically, your funds will be geared towards the organization's long-term action plans of achieving goals such as universal environmental knowledge, advocation for civil and corporate action on climate change, education about pollution, and the recruitment of the other millions of individuals who are concerned with our planet's environmental conditions.

    As a member of the Earth Day organization, you and many other members will be the first to hear of the various new volunteer opportunities and events that appear near you 365 days of the year! The Earth Day organization offers five stages of memberships that can be categorized as, "Earth Ally (Bronze Member), Advocate for the Earth (Silver Member), Earth Activist (Gold Member), Defender of the Earth (Elite Membership), and Champion of the Earth (Premier Member)."

    The different levels of memberships are defined by the total amount of funds that an individual donates or contributes towards the Earth Day organization for their membership. For more information about the Earth Day organization or how to become a member to receive updates and benefits, please follow the links below!

#Saveourhomeplanet

Earth Day's Main Website: www.earthday.org

Becoming a Member: www.earthday.org/become-a-member/ 

  

COM 322 Project, (Resume).

 Assignment:

Resume Building Tips #2.

     Continuing on with building a resume, after an individual has completed and edited a variety of their dynamic and unique thumbnail designs, one can then move on towards creating a COMP. By selecting one or multiple design characteristics or layouts, a person can then start to creatively expand their ideas and goals for their resume. The COMP is usually about double the size of a thumbnail design, and should feature some more details about a person's personal information and previous life experience.

    Working upon the COMP process of one's resume project is a great opportunity for an individual to practice, but to also experiment with one's own design concepts. Again, the example above displays a COMP in which reflects an enhanced and increased in sized version of an individuals previously created thumbnail designs. The COMP should include all of the individual's intended personal information and previous experience, but also should present a more solidified outline or layout of one's resume design.

Resume Building Tips.

     When creating a new resume for the first time, or updating a current resume, there are many unique factors and elements that a person should be aware of before starting or editing their professional resume. While living in today's modern times, there are a few more updated aspects and details that one's professional resume should include, and not include.

    Within this example of a professional resume, there are a variety of good qualities that contribute towards the resume's general information, but there are a few things that could be done to improve this resume's overall appeal and context. This resume provides a little too much information, and its visual display could use a revamped appearance.

    Beginning with this resume's personal contact information, it was great of the resume's owner to include his name, phone number, email address, and his LinkedIn account's URL, but it was unnecessary of him to include his physical address. Within the creator's, "Skills," section, he should have expanded some more upon his professional traits/qualities, and for the, "Education," section, a person should only actually display their highest completed level of education or only their college achievements/current status.

    As for this resume's overall presentation, there could be more done to its design to emphasize key information, and to make its appearance stand out from all of the rest. By creating, "Thumbnail," sketches of one's resume, an individual can proactively generate and creatively articulate new designs to enhance their presence and uniqueness.

    Upon these thumbnail sketches, we can see eight different resume designs that appear more dynamic than the original resume. The original resume was composed through a Word Document, where one of these potential thumbnail designs will be created upon some of Adobe's services.

    By implementing different design styles of fonts, organization, shapes, structure, and/or unique color schemes, one's resume may have the ability to stand out from all of the other applicants. However, it is important to not over-complicate one's layout, or overcrowd one's resume with too much information.

    The exampled thumbnail sketches do display many variations of different layouts and organizational structure, but they do also feature some designs with different shapes within them. After selecting a desired layout and preferred structure, a person could also consider applying a scheme of colors and shapes within their resume to help boost its attractiveness and presentation.

    While evaluating different shapes to incorporate within your resume, an individual should be considerate of their shape's visual connections. When properly managing a shape's proximity, alignment, and repetition, one's resume is sure to draw-in plenty of attention and focus.

     Referencing back to a resume's layout and structure, perhaps the most important element of one's professional resume, is its overall alignment. By having designated and clarified sections upon one's resume for their personal contact information, skills, traits, education, and previous work experience, this will enable employers to evaluate an individual's application more efficiently.

    In conclusion, whether you may be creating a new professional resume or simply needing to update your current professional resume, remember to carefully review and analyze both your overall literal content and visual design. A professional resume should not be anything that is rushed or thrown together, but should definitely be the best literal representation of your qualified professional self!

Communication Styles & Graphics.

     While comprehending multiple forms of communication regularly, there are some methods of communication that are more effective and efficient than others. As a Senior at Buffalo State College, some of the most beneficial ways of receiving information, news, and communicating with others, has been through primarily audio, verbal, and visual methods.
    Throughout many academic courses, audio and verbal communication practices are critical towards the overall progression of a student's association, knowledge, and participation. These practices can also help confirm and enhance the clarification of class assignments, expectations, and requirements.

    Visual communication tactics are also extremely helpful while participating within social and class activities, as they can help associate, display, and verify people's understandings. By visually corresponding expressively and receptively, an individual's capabilities of accurately presenting one's attentiveness and displaying their comprehension of other's messages can be communicated instantly and proficiently.

    With written communication, many organizations can strategically advertise their company's name within their logo and capitalize with including relevant material towards their brand's image. However, written Communication strategies can often become misinterpreted or misunderstood based on an individual's comprehension and perspective.

    Within the realm of visual communication, a viewer may specifically become captivated or intrigued towards the use of a message's colors, images, and symbols. The advantages of using these types of arrangements helps enhance the attractiveness and relativeness towards its audience.

    By applying an applicable and coherent color scheme, many people then affiliate certain colors with different brands, companies, and organizations. When incorporating dynamic and identifiable images and symbols, many individuals can then associate those aspects of the message to the providers production and industry.

First Example: 

Description:

    Within this Rockstar Energy Drink logo, the viewer can automatically be drawn into its bold and dynamic black, red, white, and yellow color scheme. A couple of stars are also used within this logo to symbolize the nature of this product's, "Rockstar," personality and attitude. Within the bigger star image located on the logo's left side, there are two, "R's," that are mirrored within its center that represent the first and last letters within the, "Rockstar," brand name.

Second Example:

Description:

    This John Deere logo presents a vibrant green and yellow color scheme along with a distinctive deer symbol placed within its center. The John Deere organization primarily associates within the agricultural industry, making its color scheme not only eye-catching, but relevant towards its functioning industry. The company's logo is also clever by associating the organization's name, Deere, with the emblem of an actual deer that symbolizes their company's recognition towards agriculture.

Third Example:

Description: 

    The Price Chopper organization was also clever with their company's logo, as there appears to be an axe that has, "chopped," into the top left quadrant of their design. The axe is visually symbolic as to how this company can, "chop," their economic prices lower than their competitors. The organization's direction and decision of color scheme by selecting red, white, and blue also identifies the business as a proud American company.

Image Resources:

Rockstar Energy drink logo: www.pinterest.com 

John Deere logo: www.qctimes.com 

Price Chopper logo: www.news10.com