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Makeover Projects and Redesigns
Makeovers are all over television these days. People are changing their bodies, changing their style, changing their homes. How about changing the way we look in print too? The Desktop Publishing Makeover Projects Profiles provide you the opportunity to play makeup maven, hair stylist, fashion guru, architect, and interior designer. It's a way of honing your design skills on a variety of projects as well as learning how to use your desktop publishing software.
View the makeover projects profiles and submit your redesign for critique. View the gallery of submissions and offer your own thoughts on what works or doesn't work for each redesign.
View the makeover projects profiles and submit your redesign for critique. View the gallery of submissions and offer your own thoughts on what works or doesn't work for each redesign.
Humorous Christmas Card Makeovers
Show and tell how you redesigned this humorous Christmas card in our About.com Desktop Publishing Makeover projects.
Makeover Projects Image Gallery
These are mock-ups and source files for the About.com Desktop Publishing Makeover projects described below.
Book Jacket - Makeover Project
Redesign a book jacket for a new printing of My Life is a Poem by Mark Everyman. Project includes cover art, spine, and flaps.
Box for Bar of Soap - Makeover Project
Do a makeover. Create a new look for the Saphon Carrot & Orange Beauty Bar. They want a less old-fashioned, more contemporary design.
Brochure - Makeover Project
Get down to business with a business brochure. Give this brochure makeover some pizzazz within the parameters provided.
Business Card - Makeover Project
This very small organic skincare products company wants to freshen up their business card design with an eye toward adapting the design for other print materials.(This profile, although based in part on an actual project, uses a ficticious name, logo, and other details.)
Calendar for Book Club - Makeover Project
Create a calendar for this literary book club that is consistent throughout the year but with each monthly calendar different.
CD Case Sleeve - Makeover Project
Practice your graphic design and desktop publishing skills by doing a makeover. In this makeover project you will design a CD case sleeve for a series of audio CDs of meditation music using the given parameters.
Christmas Card With Funny Photo - Makeover Project
Here's your chance to flex your photo-editing muscles and tickle some funny bones while spreading holiday cheer. Using the original photo as a starting point, redesign this humorous holiday card.
Logo / Heat Transfer - Makeover Project
Practice your design skills when you redesign a team logo heat transfer for the Strike Kings bowling team. The design will be placed on tee-shirts using a heat press.
Poster for Hot Dog Cart - Makeover Project
This poster will be placed at a corporate cafeteria to entice people to go outside to the Hot Dog Cart for lunch. It is a special promotion, for a limited time.
Poster for International Art Festival - Makeover Project
This poster should communicate that the festival is about all the arts, not just dancing, and that it is international.
Wedding Invitation - Makeover Project
Here comes the Bride. Redesign this wedding invitation using the supplied wording.
Redesigns - Book Club Calendar
Browse this collection of redesigns to our Literary Book Club Calendar Makeover Project.
Redesigns - Bowling Team Logo / Heat Transfer
Browse these makeover submissions. Critique the redesigns.
Redesigns - Hot Dog Cart Poster
These designs are good enough to eat. Check out the clever clip art choices and other creative approaches for this simple lunch cart menu/poster.
Redesigns - Humorous Photo Christmas Card
Using the original photo as a starting point, get ready to laugh at these redesigns of a humorous holiday card that captures the spiritedness of the season (and the oddball sense of humor of our forum members).
Redesigns - Informal Wedding Invitation
See how designers from our forum redesigned this wedding invitation. Some opted for somewhat traditional layouts with a touch of whimsy while others took a quite different approach.
Redesigns - Poetry Book Jacket (Group 1)
Dark and brooding, shades of nature, and a photo collage are among the appoaches in these poetry book jacket redesigns.
Redesigns - Poetry Book Jacket (Group 2)
Browse these book jacket makeover submissions. Critique the redesigns.
Redesigns - Vallifresh Business Card
Browse this collection of business card redesigns featuring several types of logo manipulations, alignments, and font choices.
International Art Festival Poster Makeovers
Show and tell how you redesigned this International Art Festival Poster in our About.com Desktop Publishing Makeover projects.See submissions
International Art Festival Poster Makeovers
Browse this collection of redesigns to our International Art Festival Poster Design Makeover Project. PDFs of some of these makeovers are...