Two bookmarks for our magazine

In order to broadcast our magazine -- Spark, I design a couple of bookmarks.

It is the sign of our magazine on the top of the bookmarks, this sign is designed by Divya, who is one of my classmates from India and she is a graphic designer, I like her drawing works very much.

Followed by the subtitle of this magazine, which is in the middle of these bookmarks, it is our course and the name of college.

I use the three colors to balance the image, and these colors are from the sign. “Less is more.” Meaning that the notion that simplicity and clarity lead to good design. It is often associated with the architect and furniture designer Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe (1886-1969), one of the founders of modern architecture and a proponent of simplicity of style.

After design these bookmarks, I sent them to Michelle, who also is a graphic designer, and asked her to help me to refine it. About 10 minutes later, she sent them back, they were more beautiful!

For me, it is difficult to balance more than three kinds of colors. Even I like complicated shape, colour and image, I would like use black and white and another color to express in my works.

I send these to my father to ask for his advice and he says they are simple but very obviously and powerful, but the biggest problem is he does not understand the meaning of the bookmark because he does not know a little bit English and it is my aim. Asking a foreigner to apprise is a good way to inspect the image for international because he will ignore the words and pay attention to the whole frame of the picture.