I have been interested in graphic design from a very young age, and quickly realized this is the
career path that I wanted to follow, so I could tailor my studies towards this. At High School, I
studied art and design, and then digital art in private school. To be honest, I was mostly self
taught, my studies just helped me set briefs that I could work around. I started creating digital
images just for fun and it seemed influential when my artwork was good enough to be displayed
in the school website.
I find inspiration in everything around me and sometimes it's hard to explain where my ideas
come from but I'm just glad they do. I’ve always seen myself as someone who worked in the
realm of ideas and who was susceptible to influence. Today, people end up telling each other
about my work and that influences me a lot to create more and more graphics in the future. I
believe that a successful design is not just “looking good’, but a well thought and structured
design that helps to increase the value of design from year to year.
My life is filled with colors and every color has a meaning, it may represent sadness, happiness,
etc. Just like my designs, or in contrary, I can say that my life influenced my work. I believe that if
you enjoy the work you do, you can call yourself lucky and I’m lucky that I can express myself
through graphic design.

This picture is created in Photoshop by
applying the general cinematic effect.
This movie effect is a great way to
make your photography look extra
special and unique. As you can see,
this effect turned my picture to look
like movie poster.
This is a very interesting Photoshop
technique. You can convert your
ordinary, boring photos to make them
look like they were straight out of a
Hollywood movie. The three
important features are: colour mood
adjustments + depth of field effect +
film effect.

This may look like a scan or a painting
done in Adobe Photoshop or Corel
Painter, but in reality it is a vector
drawing made entirely in Adobe
Illustrator.
All drawings are composed of closed
paths (shapes of solid colors) drawn
with the Pen Tool.
Vector design can be created in many
different programs. However, the two most
popular are Adobe Illustrator and Adobe
Flash. Each have their positives and
negatives. Personally, I use Adobe
Illustrator to create my vector drawings.

This CD cover was created in Adobe
In Design and Photoshop. When it
comes to any type of layout, Adobe
In Design is usually the first option to
consider.
All it takes is a few minutes of
studying the layout of a CD/DVD
cover and you're well on your way.
I did this by combining some unique
features in Adobe In Design and
Photoshop. This is one of the truly
great things about graphic Design.
You can take the best features of
more than one program and make
them work together and have the
best of both worlds.

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