My first brochure design (fictional advertisement and explanation of how I made it)

*** All names and addresses used in this are fictional. Explanations on how I made it is at the end. This brochure and content by no means represents people, business, company or organization in the real world whatsoever. ***

Greetings, Tony here from Tony's Coding Bootcamp. We are hitting our 10th year anniversary very soon. Previously well known for our Front End, Back End and Full-Stack Development programs. However, since the last 2 years we've revamped our programs and merged them to create the Web Development Bootcamp. As, represented in the page one of the brochure below, it is our flagship 10 week-long program. You'll learn how to use HTML, CSS, JS, Node, Git, JS frameworks (Vue, Express, React) and so many more! Anybody who gets employed while learning may contribute to their workplaces directly! Promotional pricing starts at MYR 10000 (one-time) or MYR 950 per month*. Please, refer to the brochure for more details and contact info.

Now with that settled. What are the advantages of joining us? Well first off, we start with all the fundamentals, move on to the intermediate levels and then we touch all the advanced frameworks and tools. We start from languages (HTML, CSS and JS) and then move onto using version control (Git), frameworks (React, Vue, Express, Angular, Node) and of course TypeScript. And of course, there's so much more! 

There's also networking and making your very own projects. We try to simulate a working environment and a real life scenario. We let everyone explore their imagination and share thoughts, ideas for projects amongst themselves. Our students work from small IT companies to the biggest IT companies like Google, Microsoft, Facebook and IBM! Get a chance to meet these software engineers or web developers and learn how they did it. Ask them any questions. Learn how to work on big projects as a team! Kindly refer to page two of the brochure for more details.

 NOTE: Please, download the images to view them. Blogger tends to compress images quite a lot. I've kept the original image sizes in the blog though.

Explanation of how I made this brochure 

First, I actually had no idea what a brochure looks like, let alone making it. So I searched up on Google, found many template sites and various designs. I didn't really use em, I wanted to do it myself, at least the designing part. So, I searched up the best tools and software to make one, and I ended up with a trial copy of Adobe InDesign.

I created a blank brochure and divided both pages into 3 sections. I thought of a good color palette, ending up in testing my favorite colors and they didn't look good at all. The color of my t-shirt and another web template caught my attention and I chose yellow-black-yellow for the page 1. I knew I wanted 3 sections, an 'About', a 'Contact us' and just an attractive logo section. I read up other coding bootcamp brochures online and took and idea for the content I want there. I played around with fonts and font sizes for the headers and body, resulting in what I chose for my brochure. I used free transparent stock icons for the computer and mobile for some extra goodies in the first page. And the lines are just something I added later in MS Paint (I got lazy using InDesign, haha). The logo style however is inspired from a photography business's logo. By that, I mean the giant T and B.

For page two, I kind of copied the 01, 02 and 03 from a template in InDesign and made them larger and gave them the yellow-black-yellow palette. I also wanted this page to have images instead of just text, as that would be rather dull. So, divided this page into 6 equal sections. Then I edited the area of the sections to follow a big-small-big pattern. I searched up two images for web development on DuckDuckGo. The left and right image are free stock images. While, the middle one is a picture my close friend sent me once. And for the test, it's just simple white and black colored fonts that are 12 pixels wide. And that's all. Thanks you for reading! :)