Goal: To show that the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) heals the chronic disorder Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO).

Subgoals:1. List or illustrate foods that are allowed on SCD. 3. Mention how long it takes to heal.4. Give hope for a cure to people who don’t have a diagnosis.

Audience: My audience is for people who are not aware that their undiagnosed stomach pain may be the chronic disorder Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth.

Message: The Specific Carbohydrate Diet cures SIBO.

Interpretive Sign Designs

Amy EarlsCSE 615

Flying fruit—ProximityFor proximity, I made sure that each section that was grouped did belong together. For instance, the title and the website address seemed to belong in the same group. The website looked lonely without it being grouped, and it seemed to enhance the title because it gave further explanation of where people can find more information about the diet. I also made sure to separate my text and subtitle and grouped them close in proximity. The bold subtitle shows that it is separate from the text but that it also belongs. And who wouldn’t want to try this diet with fruit flying into a delicious-looking smoothie? To me, the picture embodies the title and is very close in proximity to everything included on the page. I feel like I followed proximity principle in my previous designs, but I was not intentionally grouping them like I did for this. Because I was intentional, I think that the design turned out better. The font is a little difficult to read on the page, but this was before I learned the principle of color. (Image came from flickr.com.)

Yellow with Girl—ContrastI loved working on the principle of contrast because I agree with Williams that colors and images really stand out by contrasting. I used the “hugs” design in this chapter as inspiration because the contrast of the black and the blue title with the dog picture was memorable and beautiful. With the text, I made sure that it was not completely centered. The right-aligned looked best to me. I was stumped with what to do on the bottom of the page because it seemed that there was too much white space with just the text. The radishes pulled all of the colors together nicely and gave a good contrast from the text. I also thought that making sure that I had horizontal, vertical, and side-ways contrasts improved my design. (Image came from Clipart.)

People Eating—ColorI immediately noticed all of the mistakes I made on my first design, which shows I am learning many great principles! So the first thing I did to improve my design was re-organized the layout. I changed my text to be left-aligned and decreased the font size (a little too much). The change I made for color combination was complementary colors, lime green as my accent and violet as my main. I made both colors shades because the originals were a little hard to look at. I can’t remember for sure if one color should be a tint because the other is a shade, but these colors still seem to be the opposite shades. Honestly, I think that the change in my layout made a better improvement than changing the colors. However, the change of colors did make for an improved appearance because they pop out and complement each other. (Image came from flickr.com.)

Cherry—TypeI wanted a design that had the largest type I could manage that was still readable. I chose serif bold because in the chapter on type, Robin said serif bold looked great on the page large. I made sure the smaller font was within the same family. This design is a big improvement from my first design because I know the guidelines of what works well when designing and can follow them, confident of an improved outcome. (Image came from Clipart.)