This is L Bivens graphic designs portfolio. I design these images while attending California State University of Los Angeles (CSULA) and Los Angeles Trade Technical College (LATTC).

1. LBivens
LBivens
LBivens
Portfolio

2. About Me
My name is Lawrence Bivens and I have been in the process of changing my career path from Electrical Sign
Designer/Installer to Graphic and Web Designer. I attended California State University of Los Angeles (CSULA)
for Computer Information Systems and was required to take a class for Web Design. This was necessary for
my major and degree. While taking this class I realized that Web Design is similar to designing and installing
electrical signs. They both combine art and technology to communicate ideas to a particular audience. For years,
I have been helping business owners and managers with their signage needs for their businesses. I have enjoyed
the design process in the creation of signage but the physical part of installing them have become tiresome. So, I
decided to take more classes to learn more about Web Design and Visual Communications. I have created websites
using Wordpress and Joomla both Content Management Systems (CMS). I am just finishing a website at http://
www.elysiumz.com, I used Wordpress for that site. My porfolio website located at http://lbivensgraphicdesigns.com
I used the Content Management System known as Joomla. I am now attending Santa Monica College (SMC), I
have enrolled in a couple of classes that teaches PHP, which is a server-side scripting language designed for web
development and a Social Media applications class.
***All work in this portfolio was done for school projects.

3. GRAPHIC
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4. Tabasco Sauce
Advertising Campaign
Ifyoucan’trunwiththe
bigdogs,stayontheporch!
Our goal was to develop and design
a page for a magazine advertisement
for Tabasco sauce.
Since 1868
Our goal has been
and always will be to
enhance the flavor of your food.

5. Since 1868.
We must be doing something great!

6. This is an redesign of the Hereafter
DVD cover

8. D 112372 Mfd. for BMG Direct
6550 East 30th Street, Indianapolis, IN 46219
Under License
Redesign of Phyllis Hyman
CD-Cover

9. CAI GUA-QIANG
CAIGUA-QIANG
Cai Gua-Qiang the son of a historian
and painter, Cai was trained in stage
design at the Shanghai Drama Insti-
tute from 1981 to 1985 and his work
has, since the outset, been scholarly and
often politically charged. Having ac-
complished himself across a variety of
media, Cai initially began working with
gunpowder to foster spontaneity and
confront the suppression that he felt
from the controlled artistic tradition and
social climate in China at the time.
While living in Japan from 1986 to
1995, Cai explored the properties of
gunpowder in his drawings, an inquiry
that eventually led to his experimenta-
tion with explosives on a massive scale,
and the development of his signature
explosion events, exemplified in his se-
ries, Projects for Extraterrestrials. These
explosion projects, both wildly poetic
and ambitious at their core, aim to estab-
lish an exchange between viewers and
the larger universe around them.
GUGGENHEIMMUSEUM
Some Other
Guggenheim Museum
Publications:
Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender
Performance in Photography by Jennifer
Blessing with Carole-Anne Tyler, Sarah
Wilson,Nancy Spector, and Judith.
Halberstam, and Picture essay: by Lyle
Ashton Harris 232 pages with 141
full-color reproductions.
Felix Gonzalez-Torres:by Nancy Spector
248 pages with 174 full-color
reproductions.
Rebecca Horn: by Germano Celant, Nan-
cy Spector, Giuliana Bruno, and Katharina
Schmidt 350 pages with 250 full-color and
100 black-and-white reproductions.
Art of The Guggenheim Museum and
Its Collection: by Thomas Krens and the
curators of the Guggenheim Museum
348 pages with 165 full-color and go
black-and-white reproductions
Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
100 Fifth Avenue New York, New York
10011
LawrenceBivens
Book cover design for the
artist
Cai Gua-Qiang

11. Date: May 29, 2012
Travel Town
Logo Retouching
Lawrence Bivens
Date: May 29, 2012
Travel Town
Logo Retouching
Lawrence Bivens
TRAV
ELTOWNMUS
EUM
F O U N D AT I O NF O U N D AT I O N
High School Students/
Senior Citizens
Volunteers are needed for Tour guides (docents). Docents lead visitors on
guided tours through and around the railroad equipment, helping the
public better understand the history and significance of the artifacts.
Volunteers are also needed to read to pre-school children in Holden’s
Corne in our educational outreach program.
Restoration volunteers can also help us build track, repair and
maintain engines, and restore other equipment at the museum.
Times and Days: Docents and restoration crew needed on
weekends, mostly Saturdays, 9 to 4. Holden’s corner readers
are needed Sundays 12 to 4. Volunteers also needed during
the week as school groups call in for tours, usually in
April-early June, from 10 to 2 pm.
BENEFITS:
• Students earn Community Service/School credit.
• Individuals can improve public speaking skills.
• Learn engine and mechanical repair techniques.
• Have fun meeting other volunteers and talking to the public.
• Our organization is registered with the
Presidential Service Award Program
students who earn over 50 hours
will get pins and letters from the
President!
•Research library and video archive
available to help you improve your
knowledge of the railroads and
train travel.
• Teach the public about the great
advancements and historical
impact that railroads made
on our community.
• Make our Museum come to
life by speaking for and
working on the trains.
PHYSICAL LIMITATIONS:
Docents will be standing and/or walking around most
of the time for the tours. Setting up may require lifting
25-30 pound signs. The cars are accessed by a short
flight of stairs. Other volunteer positions have special
requirements because of the equipment access. Contact
Information: Register on-line for orientation/interview at
http:// www.traveltown.org/volunteer.htm. You can also
call 323-668-0104 Extension 13, a Program Manager will
return your call 323-668-0104.
Poster design for
Travel Town
Museum

13. Redesign of double-sided
tri-fold brochure design
Los Angeles County
Museum of Art
Brochure

15. This project was to design and
develop a brochure for the
movie Hitchock
Hitchcock
The Movie Brochure

18. Four-page magazine layout
for Westway magazine

19. Annenberg Media
Pennsylvania Avenue NW #302
Washington, DC 20004
1-800-LEARNER (532-7637)
LEARNER ONLINE
http://www.learner.org
Annenberg Media is a non-profit organization funded by the National Association of Educational Administrators.
The project’s goal is increasing technology-based education and classroom web-based innovation.
Aztecs
The
ANNENBERG MEDIA
Annenberg Media Brochure

20. This project was to design a 2-page double sided brochure
for a instructional media series for Annenberbg Media.

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23. The Shuttle
Project

24. This project was to design a billboard to show the
impact to wildlife and the environment from oil spills.

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26. This project was for me to develop a 2-page double-sided brochure
for an instructional media series about the Aztec Indians. I will
explain some of the design process of this project. Above are some
of the images that I had to acquire to set the tone of the Aztec
culture for this brochure.

27. I started with the background of the sun
because the sun played an important part
in the Aztec culture.

28. I had to remove this image background to get the desired
look, I wanted for the image on the next page.

30. These images background, I will also removed so
I could achieve the desired effect that I wanted.
In the picture at the bottom right I will remove
everything in the picture but the tall Aztec Indian
with the shield.

31. The above pictures are the result of me removing
unwanted parts of the pictures. Now I will place
these images in picture on the next page.

32. Now that I placed the images
in the pictures I now have to
use the right typography that
corresponds with the images.

33. The results!

34. L. Bivens Graphic Designs
Email: bbs82000@yahoo.com
Phone: 323.928.6463