A portfolio featuring visual design projects created for COMM 130: Visual Design at BYU-Idaho. Created by Nick Christensen.

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Table of Contents
Magazine Cover
Brochure
Photo Design
Montage
Business Identity
Infographic
Webpage Mockup
HTML and CSS Coding
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Magazine
Cover
A magazine cover patterned after Times Magazine
Dec. 7, 2016
Comm 130 Section 6
Vanessa Godfrey
Adope Photoshop and InDesign
Design a magazine cover to showcase visual design skills,
featuring a self-portrait and 3-5 articles about yourself.
First, I did research on Times’s style.
Next I took a photo of myself and edited for levels, vibrancy,
and made it black and white in Photoshop.
After that, I masked the Time’s logo behind my face.
Then I created an InDesign document and created an appeal-
ing document with two contrasting fonts.

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Brochure
A brochure that informs about Dante’s “Inferno.”
Dec. 7, 2016
COMM 130 Section 6
Vanessa Godfrey
Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop.
Design a brochure for a company, using all availabe Adobe
programs.
First, I created the logo in Illustrator.
Second, selected various images from online to use in the
brochure. I then edited those images in Photoshop.
Third, I opened Indesign and created a document that
incorporated the logo, the images, at least 250 original
body text, and one image with font wrapping.

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Photo Design
A metal peacock arranged with real peacock feathers.
Dec. 7, 2016
COMM 130 Section 6
Vanessa Godfrey
Adope Photoship and InDesign
Create a quality image using photography and design
skills, using a consistent color scheme in the image
First, I took a picture that matched my intended tetriatic
color scheme of lime, indigo, violet, and gold.
Then, I edited the levels, vibrancy, and specific colors of
that image in PS.
Next I opened an InDesign document and created shapes
and used the color scheme.
I then added a quote and used two contrasting fonts to
create visual interest.

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Spiritual
Montage
A quote from Dante with a spiritual image.
Dec. 7, 2016
COMM 130 Section 6
Vanessa Godfrey
Adobe Photoshop
Design a spiritual poster montage for a Christian
organization using image and type.
First, I found a collection of images to merge together into
a montage.
Then, I edited and masked many of the images into a
single image in PS. I edited levels, secific colors, and
masqued the images together.
Next, I inserted a quote from Dante and used two con-
trasting fonts to create visual interest.

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Branding
Project
A personalized logo used on business cards and a letterhead.
Dec. 7, 2016
COMM 130 Section 6
Vanessa Godfrey
Adobe Illustrator and InDesign
Use consistent layouts and branding to create a letterhead
and business card.
First, I created a vector based logo in Illustrator, using a split
complimentary color scheme.
Then in InDesign, I used two contrasting fonts to create visual
interest. I also created shapes that matched the color scheme
to help add to the flow and add variety to the design.

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Infographic
An infographic showing the five best restaurants in Rexburg.
Dec. 7, 2016
COMM 130 Section 6
Vanessa Godfrey
Adobe Illustrator
Design an infographic that shares at least 7 facts and
includes a bar or pie chart.
First I researched the top five restaurants in Rexburg, based
on Google Reviews.
Next, usign Illustrator, I created various graphics to use in
the design, including a bar-graph based on the top Restau-
rants in Rexburg.
I made sure to follow a triadic color scheme and used two
contrasting fonts.

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Webpage
Mockup
A webpage for Christensen Body Shop. Used with Permission.
Dec. 7, 2016
COMM 130 Section 6
Vanessa Godfrey
Adobe Photoshop and Indesign
Design a webpage using Adobe Photoshop and a grid system.
First I obtained permission from the owner of Christensen
Body Shop to use their logos in the project.
I then created a prototype of the webpage, using layers and
layer comps. to organize my design and also to simulate what
the webpage would be like.
I had to create the “Christensen Body Shop” in InDesign be-
cause the original logo at the source wouldn’t transfer well to
Photoshop (Color issues).

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HTML and CSS
Coding
A webpage depicting NJC Writing.
Dec. 7, 2016
COMM 130 Section 6
Vanessa Godfrey
Notepad ++
Code a custom webpage using HTML and CSS.
First, I took the logo I created for a previous project and
resized it to be 300-500px on the long side. I then saved it
as a PNG.
Next I created a folder to contain all of the elements I
would be working with (html file, png file, css file, etc).
I next created an HTML document and inserted my PNG
and tags. Then I created an CSS document and embeded it
within the HTML document.
After adjusting the fonts, sizes, and background color, I
ran my documents through a HTML and CSS validators to
check for mistakes. I then made corrections accordingly.