PortfolioOlivia Howland

ContactOlivia Howland795 E. 900 N. Apt. 24Logan, UT. 84321949.395.4149olivialark@gmail.com

Table of ContentsImagingEvent AdLetterheadBusiness CardMontageLogosFlierBrochureWeb Page

Imag ingDescription: This was a project to showcase my skills in taking photography with different views (ie: Light, Fore and Background, and Lead Room), and my photoshop skills.

Dates: Oct. 14, 2015

Course/Instructor:Comm. 130 Section 11 | Sister Kunz

Programs/Tools: Photoshop, sharpening tools, light adjustments tools.

Process: I went down to the local Dam in Logan Utah and took pictures of all the required views. I had a lot of fun with this, it was really my first time taking pictures like this and I was able to get up close with the birds and take some great pictures of them. I took a background and foreground picture where the focuses were different. The one displayed is foreground focussing.

Event AdDescription: An event ad, using a full bleed, explaining the time and location and point of event.

Date: Oct. 11, 2015

Course/Instructor:Comm. 130 Section 11 | Sister Kunz

Programs/Tools: Photoshop, Microsoft Word, PDF, and JPEG.

Process: First I went to the library at Utah State, found a picture from National Geographic that I liked, and went to use the scanner on campus. After several failed attempts, I checked out my magazine to take it home to use a better scanner. My roommate has a high quality printer, so that is where I ended up scanning my picture. I cropped the edges in Photoshop to clean it up then played around with making my ad in Word. Once I decided it was an okay draft, one that needed a lot of work, I had it critiqued. I then toned it up, but decided it wasn’t done. I then had it critiqued once more and fixed it again, exploring the program even further and ended up with the one I have now, which I am happy with.

Letter HeadDescription: Creating a stationary for letters.

Dates: Nov. 8, 2015

Course/Instructor:Comm. 130 Section | Section 11

Programs/Tools: Ilustrator, InDesign, the pen tool.

Process: I used Illustrator to create the flower water mark and logo using the pen tool, and then I used InDesign to put it all together. For the flower I changed the opacity to get it to the color it is now. And with the watermark I lowered the opacity a great deal to make it slightly visible on the paper.

Business CardDescription: Creating a business card for a company.

Date: Nov. 8, 2015

Course/Instructor:Comm. 130 Section 11 | Sister Kunz

Programs/Tools: Ilustrator, InDesign, the pen tool.

Process: I used Illustrator to create the flower water mark and logo using the pen tool, and then I used InDesign to put it all together. For the flower I changed the opacity to get it to the color it is now. I used normal boxes for the color strips. I had a completely different layout for the flower and then desided to change the flower to be on the card completely rather than just hanging off like I originally had. I like this new one much better.

MontageDescription: A spiritual montage created by blending 3 photos together, and tied together with well chosen typography to describe the message.

Date: Oct. 24, 2015

Programs/Tools: Phototshop, Lasso tool, changing opacity, and crop tool.

Process: For starters, I knew right off the bat which scripture I wanted to use (Mosiah 20:11), and thought how cool it would be to have a dragon defending the temple, defending families, against the evil of the world. Once I had the idea in mind, I went onto the school’s website to find the instructional video and after editing the pictures individually, I put them all onto one page. I began blending them the way I wanted, and for the picture of the soldier, I learned how to flip him around so he was facing the dragon instead of the edge of the picture.I made the dragon more vibrant than the original picture so the red and other bold colors would show up more. The typography was hard, but I played around with it a lot and found one that I liked. I then played around with the strokes until I found what I liked. The programs and tools I used was Adobe Photoshop.

LogosDescription: Creating logos using Adobe Illustrator to build your own designs.

Date: Nov. 1, 2015

Programs/Tools: Adobe Illustrator and the pen tool.

Process: I made the scissors with the pen tool in Illustrator and then I played around with the box and circle tool to create some shapes and ended up with these differet ideas for the logos.

FlierDescription: Black and White flier, “Graduate Leadership Conference”

Date: Oct. 4, 2015

Programs/Tools: InDesign

Process: I made some sketches to start off my thought process for the layout of the flier, I then found one I liked and decided on my typography. With that I put in my pictures and lined everything up.

BrochureDescription: This is my project where I used my skills from inDesign and Photoshop to create a brochure for a mock company I created.

Date: Dec. 6, 2015

Course/Instructor:Comm. 130 Section 11 | Sister Kunz

Programs/Tools: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Pen tool, and Lasso tool.

Process: I started out in Illustrator and made my logo, I then headed to InDesign to create my brochure page layout (2/3 fold), and added some pictures to help create the feel for my mock company. I went into photoshop and used the lasso tool to crop the picture in the upper right hand corner and played around with some shapes and colors for the finishing touches.

Web PageDescription: This is to show my skills in using html and logo designs.

Dates: Nov. 22, 2015

Course/Instructor:Comm. 130 Section 11 | Sister Kunz

Programs/Tools: InDesign and Illustrator, and HTML.

Process: The programs I used where Illustrator and InDesign to make my logo. I then used html and .css to make it into a website. Once I did that I validated it using http://validator.w3.org.