Ten thumbs and 2 roughs

Officially the idea that was chosen.  My face with the web address and 3 buttons symbolizing what my skills are.

Menu bar approach.

To do list.  Adding value for the client.

Cheesy mouse idea...no pun intended.

Photo layout idea.

Artistic shading, with simple placed call to action.

Newspaper layout feel, since I design and am the webmaster for Collegio.

My world around my computer idea.

Typography Logo idea.

Basic info with ad feel. 

Overview of all ideas.

Idea 1 chosen and scaled.

Idea 2 placed in Illustrator with my face at 50 percent opacity.

Notepad Final

Notepad

Project Specs:

My notepad is formatted at 5x7, with black ink only with not bleed. It is padded with a chip board back.  The price per pad is $1.63.  It takes 2-3 days to print the notepads.  The file requested was a PDF.

I got my quote from the Printing Services at Pittsburg State University

Purpose:

Create a self-promotional piece that promotes certain details that pertain to skills I have acquired.

Procedure:

The buttons used at the base of the notepad, are meant to be simple “clickable” buttons to show that I have an emphasis in web design.  Placed inside the buttons are skills that I have.  I placed an illustration of my face at the top to have an image for potential clients to remember me by my individual features.  I used century gothic as my font choice for the website to show that it pertains to the web.  The negative space in my name brings attention so clients will continue to look up to the name. The QR code at the bottom leads the clients to my website where they can view my portfolio.

Copyright Free Images

*All images used were created by Zach Waggoner. 

Page Sizes Assignment 1

The Business card below is 3 1/2 x 2 inches and is consisted of a 1/8 inch bleed.  The pantone color used in the business card is Pantone 368c.

The A2 Notecard below is 5 1/2x 8 1/2 inches and is consisted of a 1/8 inch bleed.  The pantone color used in the notecard is Pantone 654 c.

The # 10 Envelope below is 9 1/2x 4 1/8 inches and is consisted of a 1/8 inch bleed.  The pantone color used in the envelope is Pantone 2627 c.

The # 10 Envelope below is 11x 17 inches and is consisted of a 1/8 inch bleed.  The pantone color used in the tabloid is Pantone 801 c.

Photo Assignment 1

To create the gray-scaled photo below I placed the free copyright free istock photo in photoshop and selected the grayscale option.  

The Duotone color below is Pantone 110c and black.  This file was created with the duotone feature in Photoshop CS5

This 4 color raster was placed into photoshop and was scaled and cropped to 300 px/in resolution, and was cropped to show a larger portion of the sky and less grass. 

The COB below was selected using the wonderful quick selection tool in Photoshop.  This tool made if very easy to select part of the clouds so that I could place the selected portion inside InDesign without any destruction to the original file.