Very grateful that during the writer’s and actor’s strike I had some graphic design work! The Child Development Institute in Reseda needed some signage and graphics before their big grand re-opening. So nice to work for since they are such an amazing organization helping special-needs kids. Since I was coming in on the tail-end, my graphics had to be cohesive with the graphics that were already designed and up. Some graphics (like the main logo) were pre-existing, but some I created from scratch.
Also, I learned that there is a special color palette for special needs/ autistic children. Which I thought was really interesting, and makes sense when you think about it. No super bright colors.
Although, for the most part, the designs were simple, there was still a lot of planning and thought behind what the designer wanted.
My main challenge was making the clock face NOT look creepy!
Oh yes, and the multilingual Welcome sign. No, Google translate is not reliable. I am lucky to have a lot of multi-national friends that helped me out, and I posted in a language group in Reddit, to make sure I got all the nuances and local expressions right. That was also really interesting. (And one last note: not all fonts can accommodate all languages and special characters, so that got tricky, with so many languages.)
All in all, a lot of fun. And in the end, they had a lovely opening party, where main contributors to the construction were acknowledged. My husband, Tim Zeug, being one of them.
The actual site. Always nice to see your work in action.
So thankful for Dan Maltese who created this project. Tim has worked on it for over 10 years! I painted walls, and even my daughter who was in middle school helped roll walls at some point. Seems perfect that I’d get to participate again, in the final stages with some graphic design.
Anyway, it was nice to see Tim also get acknowledged.
On the grand re-opening evening, Scott Hartle came out to support. (Photo is Tim, Dan, and Scott, in that order).
