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About Me
My name is Thomas Upton, recently graduated and eager to start my career in the graphic design industry. I have had a passion for graphic design since I was fifteen and I have been pursuing great design since. I am extremely self-motivated and detail-oriented with a knack with working under pressure. Im very versatile in terms of style, and i take every job seriously, striving to make the best possible design for the job. I constantly seek to improve and update myself to the latest trends.

Education
Advanced Diploma in Graphic Design (2013) Nepean Kingswood Tafe Diploma in Graphic Design (2012) Nepean Kingswood Tafe Higher School Certificate (2011) Colo High School Cert III Graphic Fundamentals (2010) Nepean Kingswood Tafe

Work Experience
@Print Penrith gave me one week of experience, showing me my first insite into the graphic design industry. (2009) B&B Graphics let me help out for a couple of days with general signwriting tasks. (2012)

Interests
Logo design & branding Web design & coding Motion graphics Illustration

Skills

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Riva Rebrand concept

Branding The challenge of this brief was to rebrand Riva Coffee with a new logo and style guide. I decided to leave the old style of Riva which had a lot of energy with vast amounts of orange dominating the designs, and the logo had movement and liveliness to match the coffee. I felt that this style looked cheap. I revamped Riva to look more expensive by giving it a more elegant and regal style. The logo is more bold with some soft calligraphy swirls on the top and bottom. I still used the orange from the previous design but not as the main colour, only hints of it. The colours are now black and gold, making it more deep and bold. Old design

Riva lable design

Riva jar concept

Riva Style Guide

Riva logo sketches

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WRD rebrand concept

Branding White River Design is a small graphic design business that asked us students of the Adv. Diploma at NADC to redesign their logo, along with business card design concept and website design concept. They wanted their name to be shortened to just WRD and for the logo to look more corporate. The logo design was to represent a river, that would be able to scale down to a small size and still be recognizable. I used all uppercase on the logo and the text underneath to give the impression that they are well-founded and secure.

WRD lettering

WRD logo

Business card concept

WRD logo sketches

Main colours

Website concept

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Warm fuzzy & premetal web design

Website Design/Coding Redesigned website concept for Red Crosss Warm Fuzzy. Used lots of red to give homage to the Red Cross and used a linen cloth background on the desktop website to represent healing and care. Premetal is a precision metals broker company that needed a website to increase their global presence. My website design concept is clean and simple to navigate. I used the 960 Grid System to help structure the website and coded it all in Dreamweaver using HTML and CSS.

Mobile website design

Sketch concept

Hi-Fi Wireframe

Photoshop Mockup

Desktop website design

HTML and CSS coding

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Logo Intros
Motion Graphics / Logo Design I have a love for logo design and motion graphics so in my free time I decided to put both creative fields together and produce some animated logo intros. I used a number of logo designs I had sketched over the year and digitally edited them into Adobe Illustrator. This allowed me to separate each element of the logo that I wanted to animate. I then animated the logo in Adobe After Effects each with a different style. I really had a ton of fun designing these and I have received some online appreciation from YouTube.com and Behance.net.

Tori Lea clothing & apparel

Triple V

Bainbridge Golf Club

Real - Time

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Morocco travel brochure

Page Layout The challenge of this brief was to design a travel brochure for over 30s travelers. I considered that since it is not marketed towards young travelers, it would need to have a higher quality appeal. It was made in InDesign and then saddle stitched together.

Morocco cover sketch

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Album, book, poster designs

Illustration I have always been into illustration and I feel it is one of my great strengths as a graphic designer. Archelon is a fiction band that I designed an album cover for, wanting to portray it as a heavy metal band. The illustration is of Rangda from traditional Balinese mythology. I illustrated a book cover design for George Orwells 1984. The detailed eye looking over the city represented big brother. Forms of Advertising and Leading Agencies were two title page designs that were made to look like they were from a certain era. I choose 1920s communist propaganda poster, and 1950s scifi movie poster.

Rangda sketch

Book cover concept

1950s sci fi poster design

Archelon album cover

1920s communist propaganda poster design

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