My Personal Tutor Activity Guide for Microsoft Education

This project had two challenges associated with it. The first was a very hands-on client who liked to be involved in all the steps of the project, but wasn't a visual person. To make it possible for the client to participate in the creative process, instead of delivering three completed comps of possible visual directions, we delivered a parts kit full of headings, blocks of copy, illustrations styles, and layouts. The client was able to pick her favorites without the pressure of liking some parts of a completed comp but not others, and we were able to avoid a potential redesign and the blow to the project budget that would have entailed.

The second challenge was that all we had for artwork were screen shots from the game the activity guide was to be packaged with. To create graphics that would not only be high enough resolution for print, but be fun illustrations for the guide, I developed a three part process of autotracing the graphics using Adobe Streamline, once for the color, and again for the line work, and then assembling the results in Illustrator and applying the spot colors. We ended up with great looking illustrations that wouldn't have existed otherwise.

My Personal Tutor Activity Guide for Microsoft Education

My Personal Tutor Activity Guide for Microsoft Education