My last re/design for this class was the ultimate interview getter, the resume. I have made resumes before, but never really spent much time or cared about working on them. These resumes were all design in the dreaded “Microsoft Word” and of course I spent minimal time devoting working on such a dreadful thing to think about, getting a job a few years. I am just joking about the job part being dreadful, but the designs of these past resumes were awful. Here is where the weird part comes into this story, I actually spent days thinking about how I would go about designing a resume for this class. I felt like it would be a valuable experience to use an advance program like that of “Photoshop,” while also getting a design out and opening my box of ideas for latter job possibilities.

Let’s get to how I came up with my idea, the one above, in the lovely jpg that I have provided. As you know, I came to class on Thursday still stuck with all these ideas in my head. Like I told you, I’m not good at coming up with good design ideas, I am better at doing what people need from me out of design. Anyways, going though ideas and my most recent resume, you were able to talk me through some, if I may say so myself, pretty good ideas. I thank you in advance for the help that you have provided us students this semester. An idea came to mind when I asked you if I should use a company logo in the resume. I automatically thought, let’s go with the “Dallas Stars” logo. I love the team, I love hockey, and I love the amazing “Ice Girls” at the games. A small logo in the top right hand corner of the resume turned into a water mark stain, another one of your ideas, that turned into a water mark stain covering the whole document it self. The stain worked out well, but I did find some problem areas while designing the rest of the document.

Space, like always, is an issue while designing. You do not want to clutter too much or too little in one area of a document. The information needs to be readable, reliable, and realistic in order to capture your audiences’ attention span. For a resume, the audience is pretty straight forward, most likely a HR (Human Resource) employee under the “Dallas Stars” system. I had to do something different to capture that attention. The watermark was a good way to start, but I needed to add a little extra to convince that user to keep on reading through my document. I decided to leave the text aligned and normal on the left side of the document, but when the reader is ready to go on to the second column they are confused, but still want to read, so they turn the document so they can read it. This does require some work by the audience that is viewing the document, but I believe in the end, the user will understand the reasoning and appreciate that I put extra work into the specifically designed resume.

Alignment is pretty specific through out the document, noticing that the sides are even, along with the text on both the left column and right column when looked at as four separate pieces of information. I also added in a granite coloring to each subtitle to add an effect of worn out ice that is typically seen at any ice rink around the country. Overall I think this design went well and that I was able to over come the issues of space by changing the direction of the text.