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AD Campaign

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This was a group project in which we had to create an ad campaign for a product of a fictitious company. It had to have 4 different ads featuring the product. We had to create a logo for the company as well. Finally the ad campaign had to be presented to the class. I was in charge of designing the logo. We ended up choosing a hosiery company that would have different hosiery for each holiday. Our group created a very simple video that played in the background as we did our presentation. I created this in iWork – Keynote.

 Software: Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Wacom tablet

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Concert Poster

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Project was to design a poster for a band of our choice.  These posters were to be printed and displayed at a student exhibition. The size was 11″x17″ and had to be 300ppi. Because concert posters are used as promotional tools, the main focus of the poster had to be the promotional value.  For the DJ Tiesto poster I drew out his face in photoshop using my Wacom tablet. Software: Adobe Photoshop CS4

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Font Face Poster

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For this project we had to create a font face poster using the dimensions 8.5″ x 11″ and had to be created entirely in InDesign. We had to pick a font face and research its history and background and create a  poster around the font in question.  The font I chose was Georgia. Software: Adobe InDesign CS4

Candy Shop – Final Project

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For our final project in web design we had to create another online store website. My website was selling Madonna CD’s. The website was designed from scratch using HTML and CSS. I incorporated a Flash intro with some Madonna music to get the customer into the mood! I added a jquery Carousel, a script I found on the internet, to showcase the CD’s and a lightbox to the jquery carousel so that customers would be able to see the back covers of the CD’s. Javascript was used again for validation, similar to the one used in “Book Magic” website. The css stylesheet switcher was used  again but using images  (little squares) instead of text. The only difference here we were shown how use the include PHP function and using PHP we created a contact form. Very basic PHP but it was fun! This was one of my favorite websites – it has a little bit of everything! Visit site.

Software: Adobe Dreamweaver CS4

Book Magic Website

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This project consisted of creating a website for an online bookstore using HTML/CSS and javascript. We had to include a css stylesheet switcher and javascript validations. Since we were able to use javascript for this assignment I decided to add an accordion script to display the books. Although I didn’t write the javascript code for the accordion (that is for programmers!) I had to figure out how to include it and set it up properly into the website.  The other part of this project was to create very simple javascript functions to validate the order form. Using the internet to find regular expressions for our validation also led us to many other validation scripts that we ended up using as examples. Again this site is live on a free-web hosting site (which sometimes loads slowly) – view here.

Software: Adobe Dreamweaver CS4