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Experience

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

          

                             

This was a whole new experience for me to attend the public meeting in the Boston City Hall. The meeting I attended was about economic development and industrial corporation of Boston around the areas such as Allston, Back Bay, Bay Village, Beacon Hill, Brighton and so one. 

As an observer, as soon as I entered the conference room, I began to observe. I found that most of the people involved in the relevant cases came to participate, and they are all adults. There were about 20 people in the room.

As an international student, the pace of the meeting was very fast, I tried hard to catch up. I could only write down some notes. 

               

            

Design Process

The main purpose of this public meeting was to monitor the process of each plan or development agency. By listening to the updated information of the holders of each plan, the chairmen will determine whether to continue the project or to suspend, delay, and wait until the plan has a clearer direction to continue execution.

As a result, I choose to design a clear report, it could be both digital and printed.  I designed a gavel because of the chairman of the meeting always gavel three times after they all have an agreement of the plane. In the goal of making this report to be a clear update of the running plans in areas, make the audience can easily know which plan had been approved, which planned had been denied. I wanted it looked less serious but more energic. So I choose a light yellow as the background. And I use two contrasting colors as the main colors, blue represented the plans that were approved, red represented the plans that were denied.

I wanted this work looked like a one-page well-designed magazine. I used some lines to cut the page into four parts. After trying lots of adjustments, I found that it was not easy to balance the whole picture, so I tried many times on the composing.