Portfolio for Comm 130: 16 Class.

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PortfolioKimberlee Curtiss

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Contact Table of Contents
Home Kimberlee Curtiss
Phone 801 919 6435
Email curtissk19@gmail.com
Site https://kimberleecurtiss.wordpress.com/
4 Magazine Cover
6 Photodesign
8 Montage
10 Web Page Mockup
12 Prize Presentation
14 Letterhead
16 Business Card
18 Infographics
20 Coding
22 Brochure

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Magazine Cover
Description
A magazine cover of VOGUE with a photo and articles about myself.
Date
September 28 2016
Course
COMM 130: 16
Instructor
Sister Bianca Rodriquez
Programs Used
Photoshop
Objective
Design a magazine cover that has self-portrait and articles about yourself.
Process
The process of creating my magazine cover as followed:
•I first sketched out the possible layouts of the magazine.
•Next I created a shape map in InDesign.
•I then had to take a photo of myself using my iPhone which
doesn’t have the best resolution or lighting, but it would have to do.
•I then chose a picture I liked best and used Photoshop to edit it and make a little
more professional.
•I then opened InDesign and adjusted my previous shape map to go with the image.
•I wrote down my articles and title.
•I then inserted my image to my InDesign shape map and adjusted the title and
articles according to how they look.
•Once I was finished I exported the image as a JPEG at 60 ppi.

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Photodesign
Description
A photodesign of tennis shoes with the caption “Walk the Walk” with the color
palette at the bottom.
Date
October 12 2016
Course
COMM 130: 16
Instructor
Sister Bianca Rodriquez
Programs Used
Photoshop
Objective
Create a photodesign project with a color scheme from the image.
Process
The steps that I followed in the process were:
•I first decided on what color scheme I wanted to use and the message of the proj-
ect. I knew I wanted to use pink somehow and convey a spiritual message of love.
I then saw my pink sneakers and thats when I came up with my message “Walk the
Walk”
•What I did to the photo was I changed the lighting. Increased the vibrances.
Blurred out the edges. Balanced the levels. Increased the selected colors and sharp-
ened the look of the shoes and grass. I did all of this in photoshop.
•After I changed the look of the photo I created a 9×12 document so I could trim of
the edges and pulled the photo on top of it.
•I then started to create my designs and test out different font types until I came up
with one I was satisfied with.

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Montage
Description
Montage with a couple whose hands are in the shape of a heart combined the a
sunset with the caption “God is Love.”
Date
October 19 2016
Course
COMM 130: 16
Instructor
Sister Bianca Rodriquez
Programs Used
Photoshop
Objective
Design a spiritual poster montage using the blend of images and type.
Process
We need to create a spiritual message and the best message I could think of was
“God is Love” from 1 John. With that in mind I wanted to get a beautiful outdoors
picture that included the ocean and something heart shaped. Here is the process
that I followed:
•I researched images online at unsplash.com. I found two images of a beautiful
sunset next on the ocean next to some cliffs. I then found and image of two peoples
hands shaped like a heart.
•I then added those two pictures into photoshop and blended them together using
brushes and blending tools.
•I then added the quote “God is Love” in 1 John to complete the image.

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Web Page Mockup
Description
A webpage mockup for a fictional company that knits and sells homemade blankets.
Date
November 16 2016
Course
COMM 130: 16
Instructor
Sister Bianca Rodriquez
Programs Used
Photoshop
Objective
Design a website homepage using a grid
Process
•I first had to come up with a new company because I’m interested in knitting and
selling blankets one day.
•I then sketched my layouts on how I wanted to my website to look.
•After sketching I created my wireframes for all three of my sketches and chose the
best one I wanted my website to look like.
•After picking my wireframe I searched for images about knitting and created a new
logo in photoshop for my company. I then added the content into my wireframe.
•My final design looks similar to my sketch and wireframe but a lot cleaner.

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Prezi Presentation
Description
A Prezi Presentation of what goes on in the mind of an introvert.
Date
October 5 2016
Course
COMM 130: 16
Instructor
Sister Bianca Rodriquez
Programs Used
Adobe Illustrator and prezi.com
Objective
Create an instructional presentation using the Prezi software to demonstrate it’s
features and capabilities.
Process
I’ve never heard of Prezi before and having to create my own art was a little intimi-
dating but once I got the idea it was pretty simple. The process of creating my Prezi
presentation went as followed:
•When I was told I was supposed to give a presentation using Prezi I started sketch-
ing out ideas. I wanted to go with a women who is in touch with her inner self and
sketched out a women surrounded my her aura. The idea I came up with for my
presentation is “A Look Inside the Introvert.”
•I started making my women using shapes in InDesign but img_1873switched over
to Illustrator because it provided better tools to make my woman. I made my woman
blue because blue represents introverts more and orange represents extroverts
•I then inserted my images inside of Prezi by following the how to tutorial given.
I added the text of the information about introverts inside the Prezi presentation.
Unfortunately it didn’t match my title so I chose another font that looks similar.
https://prezi.com/yu67tmcdgb5w/my-prezi-com-130/

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Business Identity
Description
I created a letterhead and business cards for my own company K.V. Comics using a
character from one of my comics as the logo.
Date
October 26 2016
Course
COMM 130: 16
Instructor
Sister Bianca Rodriquez
Programs Used
Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign
Objective
Create a log for a company/service/organization and establish a visual identity
across documents.
Process
•I first sketched out my logo ideas and then I created them in Adobe Illustrator
•After I created my logo ideas I submitted a sample of them to Facebook to see
what other people liked. I unfortunately only got two critiques from my classmates
but my five other friends liked my second design.
•I wanted a illustrated logo but I was having a hard time coming up with a illustrated
idea. I first came up with a paintbrush logo but later I thought of designing one of
my characters from my comic. So I created my doggie logo and I decided to use that
one over the favor of everyone else because that was the one I liked best.
•After choosing my logo I created my letterhead and business card.

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Infographics
Description
I created an infographics that gave data on haunted houses.
Date
November 2 2016
Course
COMM 130: 16
Instructor
Sister Bianca Rodriquez
Programs Used
Adobe Illustrator
Objective
Create an infographic shows data in an organized way.
Process
•I started thinking of topics I could do and since it was October I decided on
hauntings.
•After I started to research the topic of hauntings I realized hauntings was to broad
so I narrowed it down to haunted houses.
•I found a study on how people believe in the paranormal and how houses can be
haunted.
•I then sketched out how I wanted my graph to be and saved some images I could
trace in illustrator.
•I then went into illustrator and created my info graph with pie charts and other
graphics.

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Coding
Description
I created a webpage for my own business K.V. Comics with HTML and CSS
Date
November 9 2016
Course
COMM 130: 16
Instructor
Sister Bianca Rodriquez
Programs Used
TextWrangler
Objective
Code a custom webpage using HTML and CSS.
Process
•I first used my logo that I created in our business project.
•I reshaped my logo so that do is above the letters because I felt it looked better that
way.
•I created my HTML file and added the necessary items to make my webpage more
complete
•I then opened my CSS file and linked it to the HTML file and added all the compo-
nents that I wanted my webpage to look like.
•I added the my logo to my css file and also the right color combinations that I want-
ed to match with my logo.
•I also added a photoshopped background to my CSS file that matched my color
scheme.
•I then validated my code in validator.w3.org to check if it ran correctly

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Brochure
Front Inside Front
Inside
Back
Description
I created a brochure for a fictional business called “Beauty and the Corset” that
gives information about corsets.
Date
November 30 2016
Course
COMM 130: 16
Instructor
Sister Bianca Rodriquez
Programs Used
Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop.
Objective
Design a brochure for a company.
Process
After submitting my project I wasn’t thrilled with the way it turned out so I com-
pletely redid it.
•I kept my original concept but I wanted to make more symmetrical and clean.
•Instead of having just one big corset I decided to have a landscape layout that folds three ways.
•The front is just my original layout design.
•The back was created to look like the back of the corset and it took about 45 minuets to create.
•The inside looks like the inside of a corset when it is open and that took me 45 minuets to create as
well.
•I then added these pictures in a new brochure layout design and that took me about 30 minuets to
get everything added and arranged.
•I used my same pictures and text as the original but to add and arrange them in the new design took
about 30 minuets as well.
•After editing and making sure everything matched up the whole took me about 2 hrs and 30 min to
get done.