Student Portfolio Exhibit #
Anna Sadler:
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Ashlee Kirby:
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B Chau:
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B Wilson:
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Bonnie Schenk-Darrington:
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Bryan Christensen:
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Brynne Peak:
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Caleb Barton:
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Caleigh Hales:
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Cameron Draper:
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Chelsea Gunther:
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Dani Lawrence:
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Eric Price:
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Erin Amundsen:
- Just a couple suggestions on this, Erin...
- I'd stick with center alignment all the way through, since that's what you started with. Center everything. That way it's balanced, and you can bring up the opacity of the photo background.
- You can use an FX (stroke) to help the Graduation Fair text to pop out more.
Holly Hudson:
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Kaitlyn Faraone:
- Contrast: You need more contrast to make the text pop from the background.
- Repetition: Font repeated.
- Alignment: Right aligned. Good strong alignment.
- Proximity: Good use of space and proximity.
- Font Use: Single font. I would propose you use a heavier weight font (Bold or Black) to make the text stand out from the background.
- Color Scheme: White on color photo
- Focal point: The young girl with the balloons.
- Balance: A bit heavy on the right. If you move the girl so she's a bit more to the left, the balance would be better.
- Other: Size: in order to be used on USU displays, it must be 1920x1080 pixels at 72 DPI. Yours is 1620x1080.
Kate Sargent:
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Kate Stefanakos:
- You've got a good start on this design, Kate. I have a few suggestions:
- I think the background photo is just visual noise. I would remove it and replace it with something simpler.
- I would unbox the text and left justify it for a stronger alignment.
- I would repeat the Aggie blue in the text and silhouette.
- I would get rid of the FX - they're just visual noise.
- Strive for strong contrast - easy reading.
Katy Dollahite:
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Kaylee Rowley:
- Kaylee - you've got a great start on your design! Just a couple of suggestions.
- In the character panel, you've used the stretch font vertically and horizontally on your text. Font designers would be aghast if they saw you doing that to their fonts. Experienced graphic designers avoid doing that for the most part, because it makes the text look out of proportion - just the same as if you did it to a photo of a person. I would only use those if would be a very small tweak needed to make things align. In my feedback image, I set all your text to the default 100%.
- To make the main text pop more, I would darken the background in that section even more.
Keslie Packer:
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Kole Nielsen:
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Landon Peay:
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Lei Mobley:
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Lesya Feinstein:
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Lisa Balling:
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Liz Pickrell:
- Liz, this design works well! Nice job. I don't think the layer FX is really necessary. It will work even better without it.
Luke Barton:
- Luke, see my feedback image for suggestions. The goal is to get the message across. The graduation photo is great, and ought to be used in its full glory. Here's one way to do that, and not have the background photo interfere with the text.
Megan Garn:
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Melissa Johnson:
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Mynth Carter
- The most critical part of any good graphic design is getting your message across. If the photo or graphic helps get that message across, then that's great. If it doesn't help, then it's just visual noise interfering with the message.
Sabrina Satterthwaite:
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Sophia May:
- This design is clean and will work perfectly. If you wanted to emphasize the message more than the graphic, you could rearrange things so that appears more prominently.
Sydney Chapman:
- Sydney, you've got a lovely resume started.
- Think carefully through contrast, alignment, repetition, and proximity.
- Be exact on alignments
- Be exact on the size of each of your message hierarchy.
- Be exact on the proximity spacing between families of information. Give your resume margins - that extra breathing room is important for readability, and how inviting your resume looks to read.
- Let Photoshop work for you. All the text in my feedback image is in only 3 text layers: SK, left side text, right side text. That way, you get exact line spacing, indents, etc., by using the character and paragraph panels in Photoshop.
- Stick to one font. In my feedback image, I used Raleway from Google Fonts.
Tanner Castro:
- Good start on your design, Tanner. I would work a little bit more on proximity, pulling families of information closer together.
Tia Kime:
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Whitney Drollette:
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Zak Osgood:
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