Content Development and Enhancement

Video Portrait

  • Portfolio 2
  • Poor audio
  • video production/editing
  • Add an effect to the audio to enhance it/move around some clips towards the end/color correction
  • This project focused me to think and better understand my self and that can relate to any professional career goal I may have in the future

Infographic

  • Research in Media Communications
  • I don’t remember tbh
  • effective research and design skills
  • I wouldn’t like design my next infographic in illustrator
  • Research can go hand and hand with writing

Holly Kersey Project

  • Editing for the web
  • It was a group project
  • I learned a bit of photography hands on/ research and writing for the Holly Kersey Article
  • No changes
  • I had an opportunity to observe and experience the last half of a successful group project. Which was a sight for sore eyes. Definitely gave me an ounce of confidence and a gallon of inspiration to continue the journey toward my career goals.

Portfolio site

Ideas for my site

  • 1 page design layout
  • head shots of me
  • content

Enhanced Portfolio Site

This assignment was meant to showcase our improved portfolio site.

How is this irritation of your website stronger?

I didn’t add much changes to the overall look of the site, I just updated some of the content. As of right now I have other focuses and I am not ready to build my portfolio site at this moment. The entire website as far as the look and feel is currently a “placeholder.”

Do you understand how you will leverage this site moving forward?

Generally I have no idea which direction I will go with my site. I mentioned in a previous class that at I am more focused on creating content to be able to put on the site and not so much the look of it at this time.

What are 3 goals you will like to set for yourself when revisiting this site in upcoming portfolio courses?

  1. I’d like to added some professional photos of me to the site.
  2. Keep my blog updated.
  3. continue creating assets to populate the site further.

Portfolio Site

Business Card

This assignment was to create a business card for our personal brand; class Portfolio III. The idea behind this design is to keep it simple but different and I believe I achieved that. I came into this month already with a design for my brand and I really like where my logo has ended up thanks to some help from Emily Wray (instructor). I decided to go with a square business card because it’s something a little different and I think it fits the shape of my logo very well. My design has allot of straight edges which is essentially in a “boxy” shape. The quality of the logo itself was enhanced and the design was altered to fit the shape of the “M” in a better way that looks more clean and professional. I lowered the shininess of the bevel on both part of my design. Overall I am pretty satisfied with my progress so far during this month.

                     

Personal Branding

This assignment was to create a logo for my personal brand and explain the reasoning behind my design.

 

As a person I enjoy simplicity as well as uniqueness and I feel as though my logo reflects that part of me. I love the straight edges of this design and the sharpness of the fonts that I chose. My way of thinking is kind of weird. Often times I come up with an idea (good or bad) in the strangest of places; while I’m driving, in the middle of playing video games or even late at night. I woke up one day and decided to create a logo for my personal brand. I worked on it literally all day and not because I had to at the time, I did it because I wanted to. At the end of the day I was happy with my design. For this assignment I through my work back into Illustrator so I could clean up the logo, make the edges more precise and the overall look more symmetrical.

Bellow are some of the designs that inspired my creation. The typical writer stereotypes includes logos with feathered pens and old ink pens even type writers. I wanted my design to be more modern, young, simple but different, fresh and bold. I decided to use my initials and the “T”in my first name to create a pencil icon.

 

Originally, the pencil in my logo was a yellowish color because that is the natural color of most pencils, but it wasn’t working for me. So I did a google search for modern color pallets. After experimenting with other colors like, orange, peach, red, my logo started to look like it was for a preschool. I choose green because green is my favorite color. Even after that the logo wasn’t giving me the look and feel that I wanted. So I added blue which just so happens to be my second favorite color. I added red to help balance out the colors. Using mulit-colors in my design instead of just one made my logo pop more and stand out.