Camille Du Par

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Contact Information

Camille Du Par

276 W. 3 S. Apt 2Rexburg ID, 83440(address subject to change)

254.421.4730

camcomportfolio.wordpress.com

twitter: @camilledupar

4. Brochure

6. Stationery

8. Web Page

10. Montage

12. Photodesign

14. Event Ad

16. Flier

18. Logos

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Description: A brochure detailing the history of and how to make a paper crane.

Process (Programs, Tools, Skills): I began the process by creating a pencilled mockup of how I wanted to arrange my layout that I was able to fold, manipulate, and reference as I created the product in InDesign. Then, I created a logo in Adobe Illustrator, and designed some icons to accompany the instructions using a flat design technique. I wrote up the body copy and inserted it into the brochure. I learned how to use paragraph styling to adjust the type across the document, instead of having to go into each text box to change it. In Photoshop, I edited three of the photos so I could match the color scheme better, and on the two images with cranes, removed the background. I used the text wrap tool around my front cover image of the folded crane. Finally, I used the line tool to create the dotted lines on the cutout panel that can be used to create your own paper crane. After critiques, I made sure to adjust the tones of the actual colors, as well as the alignment of the text and the placement to enhance legibility and white space.

Message: Learn how to make a paper crane, and make your own!

Audience: Teenagers or young adults interested in making a paper crane.

Top Thing Learned: Printing double sided in color is very expensive, so you have to be very careful and meticulous before you print. I also learned about how to use paragraph styling–and that saved my life!

Color scheme and color names: Split Complimentary: Teal, Red, Orange

Title Font Name & Category: Brush Script Std., Script

Copy Font Name & Category: Andale Mono, Sans Serif

Word Count of copy: 328 Words

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Description: Letterhead & Business Card (front & back) for Vintage Citrus Cosmetics

Process (Programs, Tools, Skills): The first thing I did after coming up with the concept of Vintage Citrus Cosmetics was to design the logo I wanted. I used the pen tool in Illustrator to trace part of my own orange design from a vintage orange crate label I found online. (See below for the original image.) After that, I chose a color scheme that would enhance my message, and chose fonts that I felt would be appropriate and further my brand. I then created the icon in a separate Illustrator file so that I could more easily manipulate it in the InDesign file I had created to make the letterhead and business card on. For the business card, I chose to make the icon larger than the card, to produce a more modern, dramatic effect, and add visual interest. I created a QR code that includes a coupon for the person who uses it, and added that to the design, making sure that it didn’t interefere with any other piece of the design. Finally, I went through and adjusted the layout of the letterhead to provide the best balance, and lots of white space in a way that wasn’t distracting.

Message: Buy Vintage Citrus Cosmetics! Classic scents for the modern woman.

Audience: Women who want to buy or sell cosmetics

Top Things Learned: Make sure to have everything saved correctly before you leave an unfinished product; otherwise, you will be very sad and have to re-do your entire design because you forgot to save the actual file. Also, make sure you stick to your routine! I’ve developed a routine by now, and it’s been working well, but I wasn’t able to stick to it this week, and that made it a lot harder to complete on the schedule I wanted.

Color scheme and color names: Split Complimentary–Green, Brick, and Violet

Title Font Name & Category: Rechtman, Script

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Description: A webpage showcasing my logo and explaining the design process.

Process (Programs, Tools, Skills): First, I decided how I wanted my design to look. Then, I went through the color picker tool in Photoshop and figured out different colors, and plugged them into the CSS template I used from a class activity. Then, I did some research to figure out how to center-align my logo, to provide white space and bring it into focus. After critiques, I wrote my body copy and entered it into the space provided by the html I hand-coded. Finally, I took advantage of the lab assistants, and figured out how to code the borders to change their shape from a rectangle with rounded corners to the half-circle over top a sharp rectangle.

Message: The design process for my logo.

Audience: Potential employers or graphic design students; for the logo, women who want to buy classy modern makeup.

Top Thing Learned: Coding is super picky. If you mess up even a single letter, you will be frustrated trying to find your mistake.

Color scheme and color hex(s): Monochromatic; Violet. #b06ead #7a2776 #FFFFFF

Title Font Families & Category: “Bookman Old Style”, Old Style

Copy Font Families & Category: “Bookman Old Style”, Old Style

Changes made to the CSS: I changed the background color. In the body section, I changed the font, the border color, and the border radius. I added a section to help create the half-circle behind the header, changed the fonts and color of all the headings, and changed the font size of the headings. I added a “Position: relative” code to the H1 heading to help with alignment. Finally, I adjusted the css on the image and added commands to make it centered on the page properly.

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Description: An image of a stone staircase ascending into space, with a quote by Martin Luther King Jr.

Process (Programs, Tools, Skills, Steps taken while designing): I used Adobe Photoshop to design this image. I added the staircase and the nebula images on separate layers, and created a mask on the nebula layer so the stone staircase could be seen underneath. I then added a black and white effect to the stone staircase, which helped to simplify it. I also added the quote by Dr. King. After my first critique, I adjusted the fonts and sizes of the text, and added a tilt-shift blur to most of the staircase to fulfill the requirement of a filter on the image. After my second critique (and some suggestions from the Lab Assistant), I adjusted the size of some of the text.

Message: Faith is taking the first step when you can’t see the whole staircase. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Audience: People looking for a spiritual message.

Top Thing Learned: The littlest details can make the biggest difference with making your project look good.

Filter / Colorization used and where it was applied: I used a black-and-white effect on the staircase, and added a tilt-shift blur filter to focus on the bottom steps. I found that the tilt-shift blur really helped to emphasize the message from the quote about “not seeing the whole staircase”, since the blur and the blending combined help the staircase to gradually disappear. Color scheme and color names: Complimentary, Red/Green

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Description: A poster with a quote about love by Mother Teresa

Process (Programs, Tools, Skills, FOCUS principles): I had to scrap my initial sketches after discovering that the bush outside my house had little blue berries on it. I chose a close-up shot I took with the macro focus setting on my camera to be the focus of my project, and found the quote by Mother Teresa to be really fitting. In Photoshop, I edited the image to make the colors more vibrant and to bring focus to the berries. I chose the Lobster font to be an accent to my message, highlighting the words “Love”, “fruit”, and “every hand” from the quote, and Univers 47 Condensed Light as the body to contrast against the thick script. I then added stripes to the image by creating identical rectangles and spacing them evenly apart, before grouping the layers, coloring them to fit the color scheme, and stretching it to span past the bottom of the image. After critiques, I made sure to adjust the alignment, color scheme, and sizing to better fit my message and enhance the design. I’ve been making an effort to produce a better design before I go to critiques, and I think that has been really helpful because I haven’t needed to make dramatic changes to my projects the way I have in the past.

Message: “Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand” Mother Teresa

Audience: College students

Top Thing Learned: I learned that if something (even as dramatic as your color scheme) isn’t working, to try and find a new approach.

Color scheme and color names: Tetradic: Gold, Lime, Indigo, Violet

Title Font Name & Category: Lobster 1.4, Script/Decorative

Photodesign

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Description: A Color Flyer for a “Bouquets for Brooklyn” benefit featuring pink roses.

Process (Programs, Tools, Skills): First, I created a variety of sketches as I tried to figure out a solid design. After coming up with a design I liked, I used a scanner in the computer lab to get my picture. In Microsoft Word, I added the image, removed the background to get a nicer edge, and adjusted the colors. I then chose to add the image again at the bottom, but lighter and more transparent as to not take away from the main flowers at the top. Then, I added my text to the design, taking care to align nicely to keep white space. Finally, I added a QR code that should really work to the bottom right corner just for fun. After critiques, I made sure everything was nicely aligned and added a slight pink gradient to my white space to add to the color scheme and add warmth.

Message: Come to the Bouquets for Brooklyn fundraiser, and help the Blackwell family with their medical expenses by learning how to make a beautiful bouquet.

Audience: Primarily female, people who are interested in learning how to make bouquets and helping Brooklyn Blackwell fight cancer.

Color scheme and color names: Monochromatic, Red (Pink)

Top Thing Learned: I learned how to create my own QR code! But in addition, I think I learned how to conserve white space, since that was something I was trying to pay attention to when I was designing.

Title Font Name & Category: Apple Chancery, Script

Copy Font Name & Category: Baskerville Old Face, Old Style

Scanned images used, sources, original sizes, location of scanner used:Image of flowers from an Ohchi Nursery advertisement on page 78 of Florists’ Review Magazine. Original size: 5.18 x 6.25

Event Ad

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Bouquets for Brooklyn Learn how to design a professional bouquet, and help Brooklyn Blackwell fight cancer!

Admissions: $10

March 21st, 7 am-10 pm

The Cecily Adams Home & Gardens

Kids get in free!

Call 555.867.5309

for more information or visit

www.cecilyadams.com/bouquets

Sponsored by the Cecily Adams Foundation. All Proceeds go to the Blackwell Family to offset medical costs.

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Description:Black and white flier advertising a graduate leadership conference.

Process (Programs, Tools, Skills):Using the skills I have developed, I used Adobe InDesign to design my flier. After sketching out several concepts, I switched from one design idea to another after deciding that the concept could be better expressed in a different way. I decided to make my design dynamic, and aligned everything on an angle, which I used repeatedly for uniformity and legibility. I chose to use a portion of one of the provided images that would reflect good composition within my flier. After several critiques, I ensured more of my design was nicely aligned, and adjusted the body copy of the flier for legibility.

Message:Students who want to have the competitive edge in business should attend the graduate leadership conference sponsored by Vouant Communications.

Audience:Students about to graduate.

Top Thing Learned:I really learned the value of a good critique with this project. I was only able to fix some issues I had encountered with the flier when I had a fresh pair of eyes helping me.

Title Font Name & Category: Haettenschweiler, Sans Serif

Copy Font Name & Category: Georgia, Old Style

Flier

Graduate

Leadership

Conference

October 21

8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Lincoln Conventio

n Center

Do you want to have the

compet it ive edge in bus iness?

Come learn how at Vouant Communication’s annual Graduate Leadership Conference. Vouant Communications is devoted to helping tomorrow’s leaders gain essential leadership skills in the workplace. During this dynamic three day seminar, attendees will meet with top executives of Vouant Communications to discuss breakthrough leadership techniques, while cultivating attributes of leadership that will market to any employer.

Conference is available to graduating seniors. Space is limited.

Registration and more information available at http://wwwvouantcomm.com/leaders

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Description: A set of three logos for the fictional company Volta Electric Process (Programs, Tools, Skills):I used Adobe Illustrator and the pen tool to create vector images suitable for logo use. For my middle logo, for example, I decided to remove the inner circle from the “O” in “Volta”, and replaced it with a hand-drawn lightning strike to enforce the message of electricity. In my final logo, I found a unique, decorative font called “Wire”, and learned how to use the lasso tool to move only certain points, as the font was entirely lowercase, and I wanted a captial “V”. I then used the pen tool to design a wire and plug to extend from the “A” and lead the eye to the word “Electric.” I chose to redesign my first logo for my portfolio, and I feel that the current design is a real improvement over my original. Message: Use Volta Electricity to power your home. Audience: Millenials and others who may have to pay for their own power. Top Thing Learned: Don’t procrastinate, and don’t be afraid to completely re-configure your designs if something isn’t working.Three Color Scheme and Color Names: Complimentary–Purple/Yellow, Analogous–Blue/Indigo, Monochromatic–BlueThree sets of Title / Body Font Names & Categories: Goudy Old Style (Oldstyle) Cabin (Sans Serif) Wire (Decorative) and Goudy Old Style (Oldstyle) My favorite logo is the middle logo. I feel like that turned out the most

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Volta Electric Company

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Volta Electric