Importance of Whole Grains - Aug 2014 Description: AIU Project 6 page booklet promoting the importance of whole wheat grain products. Layout of 6 page branding manual for a large grocery store chain. Booklet size is 7x10 inches. Topic of the booklet is an everyday food item. Design Process: I chose a strong rich color theme with arching lines for the background. The centerpiece images are enclosed in an oval mask to give the piece depth. I rotated the border elements on the cover 90 degrees on the inside spreads to create a varied focal point. Software: Adobe Illustrator CC & Photoshop CC

CJ Hastings Brochure

CJ Hastings Brochure – Aug 2014 Description: AIU Project A 6 panel trifold brochure for a new line of clothing. Design Process: I chose to go vintage with this piece, using elements from the early 1900’s. CJ Hastings is a fictitious company, with this name being taken from an Agatha Christie novel character. The header on the front cover is a recreation of a typical art deco style poster. Software: Adobe Illustrator CC & Photoshop CC

BMJ Stone Trade Show Brochure

BMJ Stone Trade Show Brochure – March 2013 Description: Outside Project BMJ Stone trade show brochure. This is a piece from my outside work collection, designed in 2103. A local decorative stone company commissioned me to design and print this project. Over 500 were handed out at a building materials trade show in St. Louis MO.

Design Process: Images and text were provided by the client, and those images were manipulated and inlaid in a offset grid fashion. Page one features a logo redesign just for this project. This project features both pre-press and post-production work. These were printed on 18x12 coated 120# stock and cut and folded. Software: Adobe Illustrator CS5 & Photoshop CS5

BMJ Stone Trade Show Brochure Inside Spread

Cancun Menu Redesign – Jan 2014 Description: Outside Project A conceptual redesign of a local Mexican restaurant menu. Typefaces were selected by the client. With the exception of the margarita glass, all elements are vector objects. This project consists of 6 pages. Page size is 8 ½ x 14. Design Process: A parchment type background is used throughout, with a semi-transparent white overlay manually shaped to resemble the Latin-American typical style. The multi-colored oval behind “CANCUN” is hand drawn, as well as the CANCUN logo. The inside menu text (not shown) in placed as an editable MS Word document, so changes can be made on the fly with InDesign. Software: Adobe Illustrator CS5 & Photoshop CS5. Pre-flight compiled with Adobe InDesign CC.

H&H Construction – Jan 2014 Description: Outside Project Local Construction Company commissioned this project to create a new corporate branding presence. A full spectrum of materials were created and included this new logo, from business cards, letterheads, invoicing documents, vehicle signs and hats and t-shirts. Design Process: Circa 2013 vector image created exclusively in Illustrator. The “HH” was set in a perspective fashion, resembling a building. The roof was then added to balance the piece and give the project a completed look of a building. Software: Adobe Illustrator CS5

GA2 – May 2014 Description: AIU Project Pictorial abstract logos for the (fictional) Graphical Arts Gallery and Academy. The pieces convey the artistic vibrancy and diversity of the community. Design Process: 2 Styles were created of this piece, one a more traditional look, the other a vintage style design. The top version uses an artist’s easel to echo the main theme of art. The lower version is more abstract, however the tilt of the background and the smooth contrasting lines represent forward movement. Software: Adobe Illustrator CC

DK Designs Flyer – April 2014 Description: AIU Project A full color, 6 panel tri-fold brochure for my website design company that features the services that my company offers. Design Process: The origination of my personal logo is showcased here in black and silver gradient form. The brochure is designed in a horizontal format. Software: Adobe Illustrator CS6

UrbanEco Mag Cover – April 2014 Description: AIU Project Urban Eco Magazine Ad. Urban Eco is a clothing company for men and women that design contemporary clothes with sustainable fabrics and construction methods. Their clothing is moderately-priced and is geared towards a discerning customer who is a young to middle-aged adult who wants stylish casual clothing with integrity. Design Process: I have incorporated a “Grunge” font style as the main focal point of the design. The cityscape background displays the “Urban” environment interpreted from the clothing manufacturer “Urban Eco. A vertical split of the street showing one side as night and the other day echoes the ad slogan “the difference between night and day”. Software: Photoshop CS6

Tina Bobina – May 2013 Description: Outside Project Tina Bobina Clothing commissioned this project to create a 1970’s style identity brand for their unique women’s clothing line. This piece serves as a cover for their tri-fold brochure as well as a scaled down clothing tag.

Design Process: Swirling pattern of loud contrasting colors were used as a full bleed background for this project. The offset of 2 go-go girls serves as a offset focal point representing the style of that era. Software: Illustrator CS5

Trump Tight 3 – March 2013 Description: AIU Project Fictitious Christian Rock Band “Trump Tight” commissioned this art work and a website promoting their upcoming US Tour.

Design Process: These 3 full size 16x20 posters feature 3 styles of artwork, and the one chosen to represent the project includes a photograph of some personal friends edited in Photoshop. The chalkboard background gives the piece a bit of a grunge look, and the polished elements cap off the piece in contrast. Software: Photoshop CS6

Egg Farm Sign – Sept 2014 Description: AIU Project Road sign creation project with the words shipping, receiving, parking and directional arrows included. This project also includes a logo that represents the sign theme. The sign is placed on the roadside in a photograph of my choosing. Design Process: As I typically do in my work, I wanted to be a bit different. I chose a country road scene and placed my custom sign on the side. As I pondered where I would go from here, the thought of a chicken farm popped in my head. I drew up a quick chicken shape and put it on top of the sign. That was all it needed to be complete. The sign (with shadow) & logo chicken were drawn up in Illustrator and placed into Photoshop as smart objects. Software: Adobe Illustrator CC & Photoshop CC

Design Process: The design I have chosen is based on a Biblical scripture in which Jesus Christ speaks to Peter, one of His disciples. He is telling Peter that He has chosen to build His Church on a rock, and that Peter is the one who will lead that movement after He is gone. The idea behind this design is that the type and its background represents that solid foundation. I used the Swis721 font family, with the typeface of Swis721 BlkCn BT. This typeface represents strength, and the method of 3D extrusion also gives the piece a feel of depth and dimension. Also used in this design is the new feature of “TouchType” in Adobe Creative Cloud software. This feature allows the designer the flexibility to transform each individual character in the type in a variety of ways (see close up below). I utilized changing the height and width of characters to fit the form and create the mountain effect of the type. Software: Adobe Illustrator CC

Matthew 16.18 – Aug 2014 Description: For this project I chose a font family and typeface (a font) from that font family, and created an original artistic 8x10-inch design using only characters from this typeface. The subject for this design was open, and I exhibited the personality and versatility of the typeface.

Approach of Typography - Aug 2013 Description: AIU Project “Contrasts: Traditional vs. Deconstructive Approach of Typography.” This project conveys the standard & abstract rules of typography emphasizing an expressive layout that emphasizes a visual and emotional message. Design Process: No raster images were used in this compilation. Several typefaces and effects to those typefaces were used in the foreground, and multiple layers of bright semi-transparent colored rectangles are used in the background. The personal goal in using the rectangles was to not have any of the same color overlap each other, which was a challenging task as you can imagine. Software: Illustrator CS6

Mysteries of the Bog - Aug 2013 Description: AIU Project This fun project to create a cover for a magazine in which the entire design integrates type and image, is formatted figuratively, exhibits professional-level, and sophisticated application skills. Design Process: Several elements of press style publications were used in this piece, including drop caps, highlighted portions of type, image & text masking, head & footnotes, and page numbering. “Lorem Ipsum” filler was allowed in this case. The center image came from a “National Geographic” and was edited in Photoshop to fit the page properly. Software: Illustrator CS6 & Photoshop CS6

Florida Sessions – July 2014 Description: AIU Project For this project, I created a newspaper layout feature page. The fictitious name of the newspaper is the “The Florida Sessions”. This was an interesting and challenging project, as InDesign was the feature application. Design Process: For this piece, I created of a logo and flag for this newspaper. A single style body copy was used, along with 3 other headline styles. Pull quotes, captioned photos, bylines and a footer were implemented in this design. Software: InDesign CC & Photoshop CC

Leap Frog – June 2014 Description: AIU Project A bi-fold brochure for LeapFrog Interactive was created for this project. The specs stated that we were to use elements created from another related project. One of the primary elements was a recreation of the corporate logo. The brochure was intended for an audience of parental age men and women.

Design Process: An arched vertical gradient border was used here to accentuate the white background. Photos placed in the document were used to create a positive, trusting family mindset. The new logo was placed top center on the cover page for a focal point. Software: Illustrator CS6

UI/UX Magazine - Jan 2014 Description: The creation of a magazine cover was the project goal. The topic I chose was one of a popular design discipline, UI/UX interface design. All imagery was created originally. No raster images were included in this project. Design Process: The logo was a major piece of this project. This was carefully crafted to represent the technical industry of UI/UX design. The iPhone shows a custom music player interface. I decided to choose a “jukebox” theme for this project, as music is another one of my passions. Software: Illustrator CS6

Zoe & Friends – May 2014 Description: I believe this project was the most enjoyable of all the projects I have done. The goal of this piece was to create an animated interface for children in the age group of 3-5 years. Design Process: AS3 was used in creating the animation and SWF frame transitions (loading and unloading movieclips). Not only was this an advanced task in creating the Flash navigation techniques, this project was actually published as a live HTML document and published to the www. This project can be viewed HERE. Don’t forget to turn up the sound. You will enjoy it! Software: Flash CC, ActionScript 3 & NotePad++ (for the HTML)

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WBIR.com Website Redesign – June 2014 Description & Design Process: AIU Project Primary goals of this project include a redesign of the WBIR.com website in a responsive, mobile friendly format. New coding standards such as HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery were be utilized in this design. Features in the redesign make the visitors experience a more robust and informative one in relationship to the older existing website. Utilization of methods that use the visitors browsing and search habits to target content related to those habits will make revisions and edits to the site easier and more cost effective. Software: Photoshop CC & NotePad++

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Description: AIU Project A companion website mockup piece to the print design project of the UrbanEco Magazine Ad. Designed in Photoshop CS6.

UrbanEco Website Mockup – April 2014

Description: Outside Project Artist Ralph Hofknect commissioned me to develop this art gallery complete with shopping cart. Hands of Christ Art presents to you the "Inspirational Painting Series", a special collection of color prints based on scripture texts from the Old and New Testaments. These vivid color reproductions show many facets of Jesus’ ministry as expressed through His hands. The meaning of life, spiritual truth, and the Word made flesh are essential Christian messages which are presented in these evocative paintings. The gallery is styled with Fancybox jQuery scripting methods. Click on the image above for a live preview. Designed from scratch.

Hands of Christ Artwork Website Development – March 2013 to Present

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