Portfolio

Zach Ellis

Contact
Zach Ellis 2814 Wind Rd. Rexburg, ID. 83440 208.217.9381 zach@zellismedia.com

Table of Contents
Busines Card Letter Head Montage Flier Logos Brochure Event Ad Imaging Web Page

Business Card
Description: Front and back design of a business card for my portfolio site. Program(s): Adobe Illustrator. Date Completed: June 14,2013. Course: Visual Media. Eric Lybbert. Objectives: Create a new logo to fit a company or personal image. Design consistent layouts for a business card and letterhead. Use the basic tools of Illustrator & InDesign. Process: This project I chose to create a new design for my logo. I wanted some similarities but still have a new look about it. I played around with different fonts till I found a couple that I liked for the ZEllis Media part. The symbol with the Z, E, and the M in the negative space I actually created using the pen tool. So they arent fonts at all. I played around with a few different looks and in the end I had two that I liked the best. The one you see was the winner for this project but I may change it to the other one for my portfolio web site. We shall see. I then just designed it as a business card with my name and some contact info.

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Zach Ellis
482 W. Fen Rd. Rexburg, Id. 83440 1.800.783.2359 zach@zellismedia.com

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Letter Head
Description: A letter head for my portfolio site. Program(s): Adobe Illustrator. Date Completed: June 14,2013. Course: Visual Media. Eric Lybbert. Objectives: Create a new logo to fit a company or personal image. Design consistent layouts for a business card and letterhead. Use the basic tools of Illustrator & InDesign. Process: This project I chose to create a new design for my logo. I wanted some similarities but still have a new look about it. I played around with different fonts till I found a couple that I liked for the ZEllis Media part. The symbol with the Z, E, and the M in the negative space I actually created using the pen tool. So they arent fonts at all. I played around with a few different looks and in the end I had two that I liked the best. The one you see was the winner for this project but I may change it to the other one for my portfolio web site. We shall see. I then just designed it as a business card with my name and some contact info.

Montage
Description: Create a photo montage. Program(s): Adobe Photoshop. Date Completed: May 31,2013. Course: Visual Media. Eric Lybbert. Objectives: Learn to manage Photoshop layers. Learn to blend images together smoothly, using masks. Use filters. Apply appropriate typography. Process: For this project I used two photos that I had taken in the past and combined them. I had the bee on the flower be the main image and faded the one with the statue of the Savior into it. I then added some text.

Flier
Description: A flier created with information and images provided by the teacher. Program(s): Adobe Indesign. Date Completed: May 9,2013. Course: Visual Media. Eric Lybbert. Objectives: Apply the design principles and use appropriate typography Incorporate basic InDesign skills to improve basic flier layout. Retrieve image and logo from links on this page. Create a project folder with image, logo and InDesign document to keep links intact. Process: For this project we were given the images and content to use and use our own knowledge of design to create a flier with what we were given.

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Logos
Description: We were to create three different logos for a fake/real business or whatever we wanted. Program(s): Adobe Illustrator. Date Completed: June 7,2013. Course: Visual Media. Eric Lybbert. Objectives: Create a variety of logos to fit a company or personal image. Use the basic tools of Illustrator. Process: For this project I mostly dealt with picking the fonts I wanted. That probably took the longest. For the symbol in the top one I just created a circle and a few other shapes and used the twirl tool to get the neat effect. For the second one I traced an image of a real camera to create the camera that I used for a d.

Brochure
Description: I created some of the stuff for this brochure using many programs. This brochure shows off a little of what I have done in Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, and Indesign. Program(s): Adobe Indesign, Photshop, and Illustrator were used to create it and edit some of the photos. Date Completed: July 12,2013. Course: Visual Media. Eric Lybbert. Objectives: Set up and align a two-sided, folded document. Create an original company logo and use it in a brochure. Incorporate quality images. Process: For this assignment I used Adobe Indesign to organize the content and make it look pleasing. I created or edited most of the images in either Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop. This brochure was intended to show off some of what I have learned while attending college.

Event Ad
Description: Create an Event Ad that promotes a fake event. Program(s): Microsoft Word. Date Completed: May 17,2013. Course: Visual Media. Eric Lybbert. Objectives: Find, scan and import a high-quality image. Create a full-bleed design. Use text boxes for layout in Word.Insert and edit images in Word. Process: This assignment was interesting because it required us to learn more about Microsoft Words capabilities. I never really used Word for creating fliers, or advertisements before so It was a great experience. I had to import an image that I had scanned and then make up some content.

Imaging
Description: Take a picture and edit it using Adobe Photoshop. Program(s): Adobe Photoshop. Date Completed: May 24,2013. Course: Visual Media. Eric Lybbert. Objectives: Learn basic photography skills. Use a digital camera to take a quality image, then download it. Size and crop the image. Adjust image brightness, contrast, hue and saturation levels. Use a selection tool to isolate a portion of the image. Desaturate the selected portion of the image. Use a filter or colorize a portion of the image. Process: For this project I went around the University campus and took pictures of many different things. I chose to use this photo because I really liked it. I brought it into Photoshop and ended up choosing the filter you see on it because I thought it looked unique and felt you might as well.

Web Page
Description: Created a basic web page using HTML and CSS. Program(s): Notepad++. Date Completed: June 28,2013. Course: Visual Media. Eric Lybbert. Objectives: Size and optimize an original logo as a .png for a web page. Write content to describe the process of creating your logo and how it appeals to a target audience. Design a web page using HTML to display the logo and content. Acquire a working knowledge of HTML and basic understanding of CSS. Identify hex colors for web design. Compress multiple files in a zipped folder to attach as one file. Process: For this project we were supposed to learn the basics of HTML and CSS. We were to create a web page with pretty specific guidelines on how to keep the content organized. I will have an updated version of my actual site up soon and mostly finished and will probably replace this one with it.