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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Stationery
Logos
Event Ad
Brochure
Montage
Web Page
Business Card
Flier
Photodesign

STATIONERY
Programs: Adobe Illustrator, Indesign
Date Completed: February 28th, 2015
Course Title: Visual Media
Instructor: Ben Pingel
Objectives/Skills:
To create a new logo to be used as a design
concept between stationery and a business card.
Process:
First I designed a new logo using simple circles
and letters. The W^2 is in reference to the
two Ws in the title of Witticism Weekly. I then
found an appropriate color scheme, and put the
logo on a gray background. I played around with
adding textures, but I thought that would make
the business card look too serious. Afterwards, I
added the necessary information, and copied the
logo designs to another document. From here, I
opened a document in Indesign and copied the
two different logos onto the page. I added a
line between Witticism and Weekly to have
consistency with the text on the right. I took the
circular logo and made it relatively transparent to
create a water mark.

LOGOS
Programs: Adobe Illustrator
Date Completed: February 20th, 2015
Course Title: Visual Media
Instructor: Ben Pingel
Objectives/Skills:
To create three logos that are completely
different from each other in every design aspect,
from the framework to the color scheme.
Process:
For this project we got to have a lot of freedom
in Adobe Illustrator. For the top logo, I created
3 identical ellipses, and shrunk two down so
there would be a large, medium, and small
circle. I then stacked them on top of each other
asymmetrically and put two Ws to represent
the company, Witticism Weekly. For the
next one I created two ellipses and a curved
line for the glasses, a triangle with two circles
and an ellipse for the nose, and many rounded
rectangles for the mustache. The bottom logo
is pretty straight forward, using Witticism as
the focal point and bringing the first I down to
create a border for weekly.

W
W
Witticism Weekly

WitTicism
Weekly

WEEKLY

EVENT AD
Programs: Microsoft Word
Date Completed: January 30th, 2015
Course Title: Visual Media
Instructor: Ben Pingel
Objectives/Skills:
To learn how to scan high quality images, as well
as how to design in Microsoft Word, since many
companies will not have Adobe products on
hand.
Process:
I started by scanning the tree picture from the
book All My Friends Are Dead. Then, I put
that picture into Microsoft Word and put a green
background behind it. From there, I removed
the background from the tree and matched the
color of the leaves to the background, and played
around with the tint. I added a few text boxes
and shapes behind the smaller text boxes. I gave
those shapes a shadow effect to make it seem like
it popped off the page. Lastly, I added a paper
bag texture to the background and made
it transparent so the green color could come
through. From there, I contrasted the greens so
the text and shapes could easily be discerned.

BROCHURE
Programs: Adobe Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop
Date Completed: March 28th, 2015
Course Title: Visual Media
Instructor: Ben Pingel
Objectives/Skills:
To use all programs we have learned in the
semester to create a two-sided brochure
containing high quality design elements.
Process:
Before I went in to the actual programs, I
sketched out my design for a Frisbee golf
brochure and chose an appropriate color scheme,
which ended up being analogous in the green
spectrum. Once I sketched my design, I created
my logo in Adobe Illustrator, using a thrown disc
as my inspiration. I then found 4 fitting photos
from Google Images, and did the 4 basic edits
to each of the in Adobe Photoshop. After that
was all taken care of, I set up my layout in Adobe
Indesign, putting in my color scheme, logo, and
images. I added filler text for the time being.
Coming back to the project, I cleaned up the
lines, changed one of the images, made on the
images into a text wrapping one, and added my
body text. From there I did the necessary edits,
printed the two pages, glued them together, and
made the posted video.

MONTAGE
Programs: Adobe Photoshop
Date Completed: February 13th, 2015
Course Title: Visual Media
Instructor: Ben Pingel
Objectives/Skills:
To create a spiritually based design by blending
images and textures in Photoshop.
Process:
First I selected a large mountain picture from
Google, as well as a silhouette of a girl praying
in nature. I opened the mountain in Photoshop,
and then cropped the girl picture and put it with
the mountain. I blended the edges of the girl
picture with the background of the mountain, and
then used the overlay setting so the silhouette
would match the color of the sky. Afterwards,
I added a marble and metal background from
cgbackgrounds and overlaid those as well, giving
a textured look to the sky. I then added a painted
filter to give the mountain hard edges, and then
softened the peak of the mountain. I then added
the appropriate text, played with the color of the
design a little bit, and matched it with the text.

BUSINESS CARDS
Programs: Adobe Illustrator, Indesign
Date Completed: February 28th, 2015
Course Title: Visual Media
Instructor: Ben Pingel
Objectives/Skills:
To create a new logo to be used as a design
concept between stationery and a business card.
Process:
First I designed a new logo using simple circles
and letters. The W^2 is in reference to the
two Ws in the title of Witticism Weekly. I then
found an appropriate color scheme, and put the
logo on a gray background. I played around with
adding textures, but I thought that would make
the business card look too serious. Afterwards, I
added the necessary information, and copied the
logo designs to another document.

WEB PAGE
Programs: Adobe Illustrator Notepad++
Date Completed: March 14th, 2015
Course Title: Visual Media
Instructor: Ben Pingel
Objectives/Skills:
To learn how to properly code a website and
combine it with Creative Cloud.
Process:
I first updated the logo I would be using to make
a better, more appealing design. After that, I
created this web page using only Notepad++
on my home PC. The original text and logo
were placed in an HTML file, and was coded to
have all the text formatted the way it currently
is. After making the HTML file, I then used CSS
to make the web page have a look to it. In
CSS, I changed the colors of the webpage to
the blue, cream, and pink colors you can see. I
changed the fonts to two different typefaces
(Slab and Sans Serif), and centered the logo. The
only thing done outside of Notepad++ was the
logo itself, being created beforehand in Adobe
Illustrator.

FLIER
Programs: Adobe Indesign
Date Completed: January 23rd, 2015
Course Title: Visual Media
Instructor: Ben Pingel
Objectives/Skills:
To learn how to make an appealing design layout
in black and white.
Process:
Starting with a sketching a few brainstorms on
what the design could look like, I took my favorite
and put the design on InDesign. To create an
attention grabbing design I used repeating black
boxes for contrast, as well as emphasized the title
through capitalization and thickening the letters.
Around the body copy I left enough white space
to make the text standout and seem more
appealing.

PHOTODESIGN
Programs: Adobe Photoshop
Date Completed: February 6th, 2015
Course Title: Visual Media
Instructor: Ben Pingel
Objectives/Skills:
To learn how to make an attractive layout in a
photo and create an appealing design around it
in Photoshop.
Process:
I took a picture of an apple at the top of the
bleachers at the BYU-Idaho field to get a
blue background. I then took the photo into
Photoshop and did the 4 basic edits: Levels,
Values, Color Selection, and Sharpening. From
there, I added the main text Be Healthy/ Eat An
Apple. I added rectangles and color matched
the red to the darker part of the apple, the
blue to the background (and then darkened
it), and found a yellow to fit the shades of the
other colors. I made two sets of 3 rectangles,
both pointing to the apple, which is the main
character as it were of the design. From there
I chose an appropriate font, finished sharpening
the design, and printed.