Solana Curtis Portfolio

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Solana Curtis12 W 2nd S Apt #5Rexburg, 83440 [email protected]

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Business Card

Brochure

Photodesign

Flier

Web Page

Event Ad

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Description: An encouraging poster made by blending two images together.

Programs: Adobe Photoshop

Date: Feb 14, 2015

Course: Visual Media - Comm 130

Instructor: Joel Judkins

Objectives: Inspire the audience to do the impossible.

Process: Pictures where chosen and layout ideas were sketched out. I enhanced the picture and added the starry sky, blending it in with the rock pictures. I added text and darkened the picture behind the text so that there was more contrast with the background and the white text.

Montage

Description: Company stationery to be professionally used.

Programs: Adobe Illustrator and InDesign

Date: March 1, 2015



Objectives: Present a professional look for the wholesalebolts.com company.

Process: I used Adobe Illustrator to create and edit the logo. I separated the letters and but them together and used different shapes to create the nut for the letter o. Then I played with the colors until I got what I wanted and placed it into Adobe InDesign.

For the stationary I wanted to keep it simple and so I used the color of the nut in the logo to but a rectangle on the top and bottom. I used the hexagon shape and extended it to create an underline for the logo and the washed out letter B. I lined up the text information with the edge of the top black line. I keep the edges sharp and everything simple.

Stationery

Solana [email protected]. Box 66Concordia, Missouri 64020

Description: A buisness card that communicates professionalism.

Programs: Adobe InDesign

Date: March 1, 2015



Objectives: Encourage customers to buy products from WholesaleBolts.com.

Process: I used Adobe Illustrator to create and edit the logo. I separated the letters and but them together and used different shapes to create the nut for the letter o. Then I played with the colors until I got what I wanted and placed it into Adobe InDesign.

For the business card I continued to go with the hexagon theme and used it to create shapes on the sides of the front and back of the business card. Once I again I keep it simple with just the information and the logo. For the back I even included the scan code because so many businesses are using them these days. I keep many elements the same to keep unity between the stationary and the business card. I used repetition with the hexagon shape showing up in ways throughout the whole project which also added to the overall gestalt of the project.

Business Card

Solana [email protected]. Box 66Concordia, Missouri 64020

Description: A three sided, full-bleed brochure adverstising for BYU-I Recreational Sports.


Date: March 29, 2015



Objectives: Inform students about recreational sport opportunities.

Process: First I decided what I wanted to make a brochure about and I sketched out some ideas. I picked a theme, circles, I started in Illustrator designing the logo. I wanted it to be simple, yet effective. I experimented with different fonts and layouts. Once I was happy with it I went to InDesign.

In InDesign I set up the parameters of where the folds would be. To go along with my circle theme I set up the pic-tures in circles with the cover cut in a half circle. I set the text and put text wrap with space on the pictures so that the text would border the images. I also opened one of the images in Photoshop so that I could use a mask to help it blend into the background a little bit.

Brochure

Description: A Christmas card, showing photography and editing skills.

Programs: Adobe Photoshop

Date: Feb 8, 2015



Objectives: Give happiness and joy to those celebrating Christmas.

Process: First I sketched out some ideas of what I wanted the layout to be and what color scheme I wanted to do. I took my picture and tried to bring out the specific colors of the theme (complementary). Since the colors were red and green I knew that it was going to have to be Christmas themed. I used fonts that, even though they were both decorative, contrasted and worked well together. I used Photoshop to edit the picture and design the layout. I used a SX 150 IS PowerShot Canon.

Photo Design

Description: Black & White flier advertising a leadership conference for recent graduates.


Date: Jan 24, 2015



Objectives: Inform recent graduates of an upcoming conference.

Process: I drew a a few sketches and used ideas from a few of them. I used contrast with the white font and black backgrounds and black text in the white backgrounds. I left white space near the top and bottom left to draw more attention to the image and text. I a circle text to connect with the circle in the logo.

Flier

Graduate Leadership Conference

Do you want to have the competitive edge in business?

Come learn how at Vouant Communications annual Graduate Leadership Conference.

Vouant Communications is devoted to helping tomor-rows leaders gain essential leadership skills in the workplace. During this dynamic three-day seminar, attendees will meet with top executives of Vouant Communications to discuss breakthrough leadership techniques, while cultivating attributes of leadership that will market to any employer.

Conference is available to graduating seniors. Space is limited.

October 21 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Lincoln Convention Center

Registration and more information available at: http://www.vouantcomm.com/leaders

Description: A website I created to show the design skill of a logo I created.

Programs: TextWrangler

Date: March 14, 2015



Objectives: Showcase the logo and inform readers of the process used to create it.

Process: I used text wrangler to write and edit text. I changed fonts (and background fonts) and colors. I used Ado-bes online site to find a good color scheme. Then I used the eyedropper tool in illustrator to find the color that I wanted to use from my background image as colors of texts and background texts. I changed padding and alignment around the image to make everything look aligned and well connected.

I checked the coding online at w3.org to make sure that everything was good. There was an error in my css coding that I had to go and fix. It wasnt apparent in the website but it was in the code. So then I fixed it and everything passed. It was neat to see all the things you can do by typing certain words in certain places.

Web Page

Description: An encouraging poster made by blending two images together.

Programs: Word, Espon Scanner and PDF2JPG.net

Date: Jan 31, 2015



Objectives: Encourage high school student to attend kick-off meeting for Big Brothers Big Sisters.

Process: First I scanned a picture from an H&M catalog of the three little boys. I played around with some of the filters on word, I didnt realize there were so many. Then I looked at some different fonts that would appeal to my high school audience. I edited the logo to include the red heart so the red color theme would repeat throughout the design. Added some backgrounds, arranged the text until I settled on this.

Event Ad

GIVE HOPE

GIVE TIME

Kick-off Meeting: May 2nd at 7:30 pm in the YMCA

Come learn how to be a mentor for Big Brothers Big Sisters

of America

Description: Three different logos for the company WholesaleBolts.com.

Programs: Adobe Illustrator

Date: Feb 21, 2015



Objectives: Give options to WholesaleBolts.com for a new logo.

Process: I used Illustrator Program to create all three logos. For the first project I created the bolt using the pen tool. I chose a simple font that reflected the straightforwardness of the business. Then I also used the pen tool the make the 3 curves that pull in the color scheme and add repetition to the design. For the next logo, I wanted to use very contrasting sizes for the typography. I loved the bolt-ness of the font. I separated the word bolt so that I could make a nut with the pen tool to use in place of the o. Then used kerning to put the letters clos-er together. To add repetition and gestalt I added black thin triangle lines. For the last one I created another nut but instead of using it within text, I put text inside of it (the business initials). I but the name of the busi-ness below using the blue to emphasize the word bolt and the pull it into the monochromatic color scheme.

Logos

WBWholesaleBolts.com

Wholesale

.com

WholesaleBolts.com

WholesaleBolts.com

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