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- 2. 2 3 Contact Table of Contents Home Kimberlee Curtiss Phone 801 919 6435 Email curtissk19@gmail.com Site https://kimberleecurtiss.wordpress.com/ 4 Magazine Cover 6 Photodesign 8 Montage 10 Web Page Mockup 12 Prize Presentation 14 Letterhead 16 Business Card 18 Infographics 20 Coding 22 Brochure
- 3. 4 5 Magazine Cover Description A magazine cover of VOGUE with a photo and articles about myself. Date September 28 2016 Course COMM 130: 16 Instructor Sister Bianca Rodriquez Programs Used Photoshop Objective Design a magazine cover that has self-portrait and articles about yourself. Process The process of creating my magazine cover as followed: •I first sketched out the possible layouts of the magazine. •Next I created a shape map in InDesign. •I then had to take a photo of myself using my iPhone which doesn’t have the best resolution or lighting, but it would have to do. •I then chose a picture I liked best and used Photoshop to edit it and make a little more professional. •I then opened InDesign and adjusted my previous shape map to go with the image. •I wrote down my articles and title. •I then inserted my image to my InDesign shape map and adjusted the title and articles according to how they look. •Once I was finished I exported the image as a JPEG at 60 ppi.
- 4. 6 7 Photodesign Description A photodesign of tennis shoes with the caption “Walk the Walk” with the color palette at the bottom. Date October 12 2016 Course COMM 130: 16 Instructor Sister Bianca Rodriquez Programs Used Photoshop Objective Create a photodesign project with a color scheme from the image. Process The steps that I followed in the process were: •I first decided on what color scheme I wanted to use and the message of the proj- ect. I knew I wanted to use pink somehow and convey a spiritual message of love. I then saw my pink sneakers and thats when I came up with my message “Walk the Walk” •What I did to the photo was I changed the lighting. Increased the vibrances. Blurred out the edges. Balanced the levels. Increased the selected colors and sharp- ened the look of the shoes and grass. I did all of this in photoshop. •After I changed the look of the photo I created a 9×12 document so I could trim of the edges and pulled the photo on top of it. •I then started to create my designs and test out different font types until I came up with one I was satisfied with.
- 5. 8 9 Montage Description Montage with a couple whose hands are in the shape of a heart combined the a sunset with the caption “God is Love.” Date October 19 2016 Course COMM 130: 16 Instructor Sister Bianca Rodriquez Programs Used Photoshop Objective Design a spiritual poster montage using the blend of images and type. Process We need to create a spiritual message and the best message I could think of was “God is Love” from 1 John. With that in mind I wanted to get a beautiful outdoors picture that included the ocean and something heart shaped. Here is the process that I followed: •I researched images online at unsplash.com. I found two images of a beautiful sunset next on the ocean next to some cliffs. I then found and image of two peoples hands shaped like a heart. •I then added those two pictures into photoshop and blended them together using brushes and blending tools. •I then added the quote “God is Love” in 1 John to complete the image.
- 6. 10 11 Web Page Mockup Description A webpage mockup for a fictional company that knits and sells homemade blankets. Date November 16 2016 Course COMM 130: 16 Instructor Sister Bianca Rodriquez Programs Used Photoshop Objective Design a website homepage using a grid Process •I first had to come up with a new company because I’m interested in knitting and selling blankets one day. •I then sketched my layouts on how I wanted to my website to look. •After sketching I created my wireframes for all three of my sketches and chose the best one I wanted my website to look like. •After picking my wireframe I searched for images about knitting and created a new logo in photoshop for my company. I then added the content into my wireframe. •My final design looks similar to my sketch and wireframe but a lot cleaner.
- 7. 12 13 Prezi Presentation Description A Prezi Presentation of what goes on in the mind of an introvert. Date October 5 2016 Course COMM 130: 16 Instructor Sister Bianca Rodriquez Programs Used Adobe Illustrator and prezi.com Objective Create an instructional presentation using the Prezi software to demonstrate it’s features and capabilities. Process I’ve never heard of Prezi before and having to create my own art was a little intimi- dating but once I got the idea it was pretty simple. The process of creating my Prezi presentation went as followed: •When I was told I was supposed to give a presentation using Prezi I started sketch- ing out ideas. I wanted to go with a women who is in touch with her inner self and sketched out a women surrounded my her aura. The idea I came up with for my presentation is “A Look Inside the Introvert.” •I started making my women using shapes in InDesign but img_1873switched over to Illustrator because it provided better tools to make my woman. I made my woman blue because blue represents introverts more and orange represents extroverts •I then inserted my images inside of Prezi by following the how to tutorial given. I added the text of the information about introverts inside the Prezi presentation. Unfortunately it didn’t match my title so I chose another font that looks similar. https://prezi.com/yu67tmcdgb5w/my-prezi-com-130/
- 8. 14 15 Business Identity Description I created a letterhead and business cards for my own company K.V. Comics using a character from one of my comics as the logo. Date October 26 2016 Course COMM 130: 16 Instructor Sister Bianca Rodriquez Programs Used Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign Objective Create a log for a company/service/organization and establish a visual identity across documents. Process •I first sketched out my logo ideas and then I created them in Adobe Illustrator •After I created my logo ideas I submitted a sample of them to Facebook to see what other people liked. I unfortunately only got two critiques from my classmates but my five other friends liked my second design. •I wanted a illustrated logo but I was having a hard time coming up with a illustrated idea. I first came up with a paintbrush logo but later I thought of designing one of my characters from my comic. So I created my doggie logo and I decided to use that one over the favor of everyone else because that was the one I liked best. •After choosing my logo I created my letterhead and business card.
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- 10. 18 19 Infographics Description I created an infographics that gave data on haunted houses. Date November 2 2016 Course COMM 130: 16 Instructor Sister Bianca Rodriquez Programs Used Adobe Illustrator Objective Create an infographic shows data in an organized way. Process •I started thinking of topics I could do and since it was October I decided on hauntings. •After I started to research the topic of hauntings I realized hauntings was to broad so I narrowed it down to haunted houses. •I found a study on how people believe in the paranormal and how houses can be haunted. •I then sketched out how I wanted my graph to be and saved some images I could trace in illustrator. •I then went into illustrator and created my info graph with pie charts and other graphics.
- 11. 20 21 Coding Description I created a webpage for my own business K.V. Comics with HTML and CSS Date November 9 2016 Course COMM 130: 16 Instructor Sister Bianca Rodriquez Programs Used TextWrangler Objective Code a custom webpage using HTML and CSS. Process •I first used my logo that I created in our business project. •I reshaped my logo so that do is above the letters because I felt it looked better that way. •I created my HTML file and added the necessary items to make my webpage more complete •I then opened my CSS file and linked it to the HTML file and added all the compo- nents that I wanted my webpage to look like. •I added the my logo to my css file and also the right color combinations that I want- ed to match with my logo. •I also added a photoshopped background to my CSS file that matched my color scheme. •I then validated my code in validator.w3.org to check if it ran correctly
- 12. 22 23 Brochure Front Inside Front Inside Back Description I created a brochure for a fictional business called “Beauty and the Corset” that gives information about corsets. Date November 30 2016 Course COMM 130: 16 Instructor Sister Bianca Rodriquez Programs Used Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop. Objective Design a brochure for a company. Process After submitting my project I wasn’t thrilled with the way it turned out so I com- pletely redid it. •I kept my original concept but I wanted to make more symmetrical and clean. •Instead of having just one big corset I decided to have a landscape layout that folds three ways. •The front is just my original layout design. •The back was created to look like the back of the corset and it took about 45 minuets to create. •The inside looks like the inside of a corset when it is open and that took me 45 minuets to create as well. •I then added these pictures in a new brochure layout design and that took me about 30 minuets to get everything added and arranged. •I used my same pictures and text as the original but to add and arrange them in the new design took about 30 minuets as well. •After editing and making sure everything matched up the whole took me about 2 hrs and 30 min to get done.