I interviewed Makalen Hughes who’s dad has been a professional body builder for 5 years now. Makalen, mom and her sister and brother have traveled to many places with thier dad so that he could participate in numerous body building competitions around the United States. I felt like Makalen was an excellent person to interview on the topic of fitness and health because she has also competed with her dad at some of the competitions, and they work out together regularly. Makalen and her dad both feel that regular workout is incredibly important. Just because they do competitions for it and tend to work out more than the average person. It is still important for mental stability and to help someone gain confidence in themselves, and makes people feel and look healthier. Makalen often goes to the gym here at Washington State University. She runs on the treadmill and she says it helps her anxiety a lot because when she is running she is able to think through her schedule and her upcoming week. She also says that it makes her feel accomplished after she finishes a run. She sparked my inspiration for this because she had many good points that could be backed up because of what her and her dad have competed in. While interviewing her we talked a lot about fitness because she is very passionate and interested in everything health and fitness. Overall, I think that this insight was helpful to me because I learned a lot as I picked Makalen’s brain on this topic. She was very insightful and had lots of knowledge to give because she is always reading up on the latest trends and fads about health tips and new workouts. She was happy to have someone who can partially relate because I work out myself.

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This is my final logo deign project. When I first uploaded it had no color. I decided to add color and take my classmates feedback. I added a red color to the heart to make it stand out because I think that my logo design revolves around the heart and I wanted it to be front and center with a bold color. I then added black to the weight so that it was not boring and so people could tell what it is more clearly. This makes my logo design pop much more and is more appealing when looking at it. I added the color with the paint brush and then clicked fill to fill the object I wanted color in. I also made my lines straighter and made sure there was no gaps on it. On my draft there was gaps in the lines and my weight lines did not match up with the heartbeats that are within the heart. I think that this made my logo design mare crisp and cleaner because it now flows better. My logo design is simple and to the point and I am glad that I was able to take the feedback my peers gave me to make it the best I possibly could. I think that my logo idea comes across to other easy and is simple to understand if someone were to look at it without context. I think it is important for people to see this and realize that fitness is also your inner body being affected just like your physical body is. To me this symbolize how it is important to take care of yourself mentally as well and remember your mind is also important. Overall, I am really happy with how my final came out and I think that my design is unique with the weight lines connecting to the heartbeat.

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I created a weight with a heart around it and added text to the bottem of my design. I created this because it went along with my theme of fitness and health. It displayed how fitness is important for your body and mind, which are the words I put at the bottom of my logo design.? This relates because I believe it is important for people to understand that fitness does not only affect your physical appearance and look but it effects your mental health and your body on the inside. I just thought of my deign because as I have said fitness and health go hand in hand so I decided to take two things that are important and make it into my logo design. Within my design I first used the pen to cut out a hear shape then draw the line connecting the weights to the heart. I also used the shaped to make the ends of the weights and Next, I used text at the bottom of the design. A problem that I encountered while working on this draft logo design was making the heart because at first, I thought I would be able to make the heart with some shapes that I would put together and move, but instead I used the pen to make a more precise heart and it turned out to be a little bit easier. I also had a difficult time making the line heart beats within the heart because they kept filling in with black. But then I went to the color box and turned the fill off and make the lines black so that they would show up how I wanted it to. Overall, I and really happy with how my draft logo design turned out and cannot wait to hear feedback.

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Here is my logo sketch. My idea is for it to fit my theme of fitness, and show people that fitness is not only physical but also important for mental health.