Portfolio

Ryan Stone

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Ryan Stone 2530 Brookcliff Dr. Idaho Falls, ID 83402 208.589.6647 r_stone_12@msn.com

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Stationery Business Card Logos Brochure Web Page Montage Event Ad Flier Imaging

Letterhead Image

Stationery designed for a company of my choice Programs/Tools Used: Adobe InDesign Date: 03/02/2013 Section: COMM 130-02 Teacher: Caryn Esplin Top 3 things learned: 1) How to trace objects using the pen tool. 2) How to make a watermark. 3) How to make a business card in Indesign Logo - Font #1 Name & Category: Baskerville/Decorative Logo - Font #2 Name & Category: Minion Pro/Old Style Stationery - Font #1 Name & Category: Baskerville/Decorative Stationery - Font #2 Name & Category: Minion Pro/Old Style How the logo represents the company: The company is called penguin magic. The image of the penguin is something easy to remember and hopefully something that sticks with people. Process: I found an image of a penguin online. I used the pen tool to trace over it and make it my own image. Then I found some penguin footprints and used the pen tool to trace over those. Once I had the penguin and his footprints, I entered in the title and my information at the bottom. I used the same penguin and footprints in my letterhead. I added more foot prints to lead the eyes down the page to the information at the bottom of the page. I also used another copy of the penguin, but I enlarged it and flipped it horizontally. I made the larger penguin into a watermark. I tried to be consistent with the theme of my business card and letterhead so that they were very similar and easily recognizable.

Business Card

Stationery designed for a company of my choice Programs/Tools Used: Adobe InDesign Date: 03/02/2013 Section: COMM 130-02 Teacher: Caryn Esplin Top 3 things learned: 1) How to trace objects using the pen tool. 2) How to make a watermark. 3) How to make a business card in Indesign Logo - Font #1 Name & Category: Baskerville/Decorative Logo - Font #2 Name & Category: Minion Pro/Old Style Stationery - Font #1 Name & Category: Baskerville/Decorative Stationery - Font #2 Name & Category: Minion Pro/Old Style How the logo represents the company: The company is called penguin magic. The image of the penguin is something easy to remember and hopefully something that sticks with people. Process: I found an image of a penguin online. I used the pen tool to trace over it and make it my own image. Then I found some penguin footprints and used the pen tool to trace over those. Once I had the penguin and his footprints, I entered in the title and my information at the bottom. I used the same penguin and footprints in my letterhead. I added more foot prints to lead the eyes down the page to the information at the bottom of the page. I also used another copy of the penguin, but I enlarged it and flipped it horizontally. I made the larger penguin into a watermark. I tried to be consistent with the theme of my business card and letterhead so that they were very similar and easily recognizable.

Logos

Logos that I designed for a company of my choice. Programs/Tools Used: Adobe Illustrator Date: 02/23/2013 Section: COMM 130-02 Teacher: Caryn Esplin Top 3 things learned: 1) Basic Principles of Adobe Illustrator 2) How to draw and manipulate basic shapes 3) How to use the direct select tool Top Logo - Font #1 Name & Category: Impact/sans serif Top Logo - Font #2 Name & Category: Apple Chancery/decorative Middle Logo - Font #1 Name & Category: Capitals/Modern Bottom Logo - Font #1 Name & Category: New York/Modern Process: I got the idea to create a logo for a magic company. This is a real company but I created three different logos for the company. For the most part I decided to go with the theme of black and white or tuxedo. I drew the different shapes and manipulated them by added different strokes and making them different sizes. Then I found some good fonts to go with the shapes. I experimented with them until I thought they looked good.

Brochure

Brochure that I created for a company event. Programs/Tools used: InDesign, Photoshop, Date: 03/30/2013 Section: COMM 130-02 Teacher: Caryn Esplin Title Font Name & Category: Impact - Sans Serif Copy Font Name & Category: Constantia Sources (Links to images on original websites): https://twitter.com/GregoryWilson http://www.thewoodstockfruitfestival.com/forum/topics/presenting-oz-pearlman Top 3 things learned: 1) Text Wrapping 2) How to better use the lasso tool 3) Different brochure layouts and how to create them using InDesign Process: First off I created a little mock up with just a piece of paper. I drew the margins, where the folds would be, where the images would go, and where all of the text would be placed. After I felt I had made a pretty good mock up I went into indesign and started putting things on the page. I thought black and white would go well with the theme of the brochure so that is what I did. I put all of the words, a few images, and the colored box in, and then I opened photoshop and started editing the images. Once I had trimmed around the images I put them into indesign and used them to wrap the text. After that I just made sure that there werent any mistakes or things that I needed to change, and then I went to print. Word Count: 255

Web Page

A web page that I designed to practice using CSS and HTML. Programs/Tools Used: Photoshop, Textwrangler, Illustrator Date: 02/16/2013 Section: COMM 130-02 Teacher: Caryn Esplin Top 3 things learned: 1) Basic skills of html 2) Basic skills of css 3) How to use an image for a background on a website Font Family #1 (all names) & Category: Georgia, serif; Font Family #2 (all names) & Category: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; Hex Colors: #0e7c8c, #000000, #FFFFFF, Changes made to the CSS: Font Colors, Background colors, Font Families, CSS Comment Process: First I created an html file with all of the basic information for the website. Then I connected a css file to the html so that I could create a better design. I changed the fonts and the colors and the alignment until I thought it looked nice. In order to do this I was using textwrangler (for the code) and photoshop(to find the exact colors that I wanted). Then I found an image that I wanted to use as my background and I inserted that in the code as well. I made sure that everything looked good and that I wasnt forgetting anything and then I took my screenshot. After all was said and done, my word count was 233. Read the website to learn about what I did to make my logo.

Montage

The blending of two photos that I took. Programs/Tools Used: Photoshop Date: 02/16/2013 Section: COMM 130-02 Teacher: Caryn Esplin Top 3 things learned: 1) How to use masking in photoshop 2) How different layers work in photoshop. 3) I learned a little more about filters. Font Name & Category: Palestino/Old Style Process: I loaded the two pirtures into photoshop and then I switched the image of Christ so that he was looking to the left. I thought would give the piece a better flow. I placed the one of Christ on top of the hand. I used masking to be able to erase some of the image and make the rest of it transparent. Then I added the text and tried to make the stroke the same color and the hand and the dirt. Sources (Links to images on orginal websites): Both of the pictures were pictures that I had taken while I was in Chile. One is the hand in the desert and the other is a picture that I took of a drawing that a friend of mine did.

Event Ad

A full bleed color event ad Programs/Tools used: Word Date: 02/01/13 Section: COMM 130-02 Teacher: Caryn Esplin Top 3 things learned: 1) How to be able to freely move pictures 2) How to use text boxes 3) How to get a good scan Title Font Name & Category: Monotype (script) Copy Font Name & Category: Arial (sans serif) Links to all images you used in this project: Process: I scanned a picture and then placed it into word. Then I used the drawing tool to make some boxes and finally I used the text boxes to add in the text.

Flier

I created a flier for a graduate leadership conference. Programs/Tools used: Adobe InDesign Date: 01/26/13 Course: COMM 130-02 Teacher: Caryn Esplin Top 3 things learned: 1) I learned how to use InDesign. 2) I learned how to play around with different styles and feels. 3) I learned how all of the designing principles work together. Title Font Name & Category: ScholHudson-Bold (Sans Serif) Copy Font Name & Category: New York (Old Style) Links to all images you used in this project: http://130.commbyui.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Businessman.jpg http://130.commbyui.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/ VouantLogo.jpg Process: I imported the image and the logo online and I used the text that was provided for the project. Using some ideas that I had sketched earlier I put my thoughts into the computer and created the design for the flier. I created a rough draft and then had some classmates look over it and give me suggestions for how to improve the design. The design principles helped me to create a decent design but since I am new to this I had some things to change. Later I returned back to the project and strengthened the design.

Imaging

Editing a photo that I took Programs/Tools used: Photoshop Date: 02/09/2013 Section: COMM 130-02 Teacher: Caryn Esplin Want to Learn: I want to learn how to use photoshop because my knowledge is very limited and I know that I would enjoy learning all of the different things that you can do with it. Top 3 things learned: 1) Ive never used photoshop before so it was good to learn a few of the basic principles. 2) I learned about composition and the rule of thirds. 3) I had never heard of a filter before so it was interesting to play around with different filters with my image. Process: I took several different pictures and then I finally decided on the one of the light pole. I opened it up in photoshop and I cropped it and saturated everything except the actual light pole. I added a ripple filter to blend the snow and the street together and bring out the pole as the main focus of the image. To finish up I put it into a new document and set the margins.