Go through the same categories you went through to analyze the brochures you found online and write down ideas for each of the categories for your own brochure in a word document (or google docs).
1. Subject: Portfolio or Promotional (discuss your plan here. What content do you want in your brochure? Which tech areas?)
2. Colour: What colours do you want to use? And Why? What do you think those colours express?
For colour - find colour samples online, or in Photoshop to show your ideas.i.e. You can actually just google "red colour swatches" and look for the colour you like
Then paste it like this:
Also you can look up something like "colour combinations with red" or "colour schemes with dark red"
and get something like this:
3. Typography: Find fonts that you might like for your HEADINGS, Subheadings and body (that's all the text you write that says stuff)
For example:
HEADING (helvetica 28 pt Bold)
SUBHEADING (helvetica 20 pt. regular)
Body font (Trebuchet 12 pt. regular)
4. Design: Do you want it to look full and vibrant and colourful, or clean and simple and minimal and modern? Lots of space and breathing room, or jam packed full of images and info?
5. Shape: Will you have any distinctive shapes? Circles, squares, octagons? How will you use them? Will you place your photos next to eachother so they create a secondary shape? Or place them within that shape?
Like these:
6. Photography: How many photos will you have, of what and where will they be placed? Will they be lined up, placed very closely together or overlapping? Choose the photos you will be using and add them to your document.
Once you have done this, you can also take your paper and fold it the way you want and sketch out your design placing text and images where you'd like them to go.
Your rough layout should be as neat and careful as possible. (5%)
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