Student Portfolio Exhibit #

Anna Sadler:
  • Contrast: Excellent - easy to read.
  • Repetition: Colors, fonts, shapes, grad images - well done
  • Alignment: Good strong alignment lines. Well done.
  • Proximity: Excellent
  • Font Use: Single font - Excellent
  • Color Scheme: Split complimentary scheme - good job.
  • Focal point: Center images
  • Balance: Good
  • Other: Good design overall. Nice work Anna!
​Ashlee Kirby:
  • Contrast: Good overall. Utah State University at the bottom needs more contrast.
  • Repetition: Repeated font, color.
  • Alignment: Strong left alignment.
  • Proximity: Good use of space throughout.
  • Font Use: Single font used throughout - good work!
  • Color Scheme: Blue/Orange - complimentary color scheme.
  • Focal point: The fortune cookie.
  • Balance:  Well balanced.
  • Other: Your blue rectangle on the right side almost reaches the bottom of the image. Still 1 line at the bottom that needs covered.
​B Chau:
  • Contrast: Strong - well done!
  • Repetition: Color
  • Alignment: Centered
  • Proximity: Good
  • Font Use: Two contrasting fonts - Good
  • Color Scheme: Nearly monochromatic
  • Focal point: Hands first, then title
  • Balance: Centered - well balanced
  • Other: Nice, clean design, B.
​B Wilson:
  • Contrast: Strong. Well done.
  • Repetition: Good
  • Alignment: Centered
  • Proximity: Good
  • Font Use: 3 fonts used. Since Aliens and Cows font is only used for the "and" - 3 fonts work in this design. Good job.
  • Color Scheme: Monochromatic
  • Focal point: White centered text
  • Balance: Excellent
  • Other: Nice, strong design, B
​Bonnie Schenk-Darrington:
  • Contrast: Bonnie, the dark blue text against that fairly dark background - you could use more contrast there.
  • Repetition: Font, colors
  • Alignment: Strong right alignment
  • Proximity:  Good use of space
  • Font Use: You've used 2 serif fonts on this. They conflict with each other because they come from the same font category. Use two contrasting fonts.
  • Color Scheme: Complimentary - orange/pink and blue.
  • Focal point: Piggy bank - area of greatest contrast in the image. Then the bright, white title.
  • Balance: Good
  • Other: Good overall design. Just need to fix a couple small issues.
Bryan Christensen:
  • Contrast:  Could use more contrast between the text and background
  • Repetition: Color
  • Alignment: Strong left alignment
  • Proximity: Good job!
  • Font Use: Two contrasting fonts
  • Color Scheme: Analogous
  • Focal point: Man in the chair
  • Balance: Good. The large clock balances the text on the left.
  • Other: Creative design, Bryan. Good job!
Brynne Peak:
  • Contrast: Strong - good job.
  • Repetition: Font.
  • Alignment: See my suggestion down in "Balance" below.
  • Proximity: Excellent. The message sticks together as a family.
  • Font Use: Two contrasting fonts - good work.
  • Color Scheme: Analogous (sunset colors)
  • Focal point: The white text.
  • Balance: Heavy on the left. Nice play with the Aggie "A". The balance would work better if you left justified with the letter "P" in pay.
  • Other: This needs to be 1920x1080 pixels at 72 DPI in order to be used, Brynne. 
Caleb Barton:
  • Contrast: Strong - good job!
  • Repetition: colors, font
  • Alignment: Centered - it works here.
  • Proximity: Good use of space
  • Font Use: Two contrasting fonts
  • Color Scheme: Basically, red and green (Complimentary color scheme)
  • Focal point: Photo first, then the text
  • Balance: Good
  • Other: Nice design Caleb.
Caleigh Hales:
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​Cameron Draper:
  • Contrast: Strong contrast. Well done.
  • Repetition: Colors, fonts, angles
  • Alignment: Excellent
  • Proximity: Excellent
  • Font Use: Two contrasting fonts
  • Color Scheme: Monochromatic
  • Focal point: With a lot of contrast happening here, my eyes were jumping all through the image. I would say the title first, though. You might want to play with focal point a bit more in this design.
  • Balance: Good balance between all the elements
  • Other: Nice design, Cameron!
​Chelsea Gunther:
  • Contrast: The text in your sticky note needs to contrast better. I'd suggest white text there to make it really pop!
  • Repetition: Color
  • Alignment: Left aligned text.
  • Proximity: Good
  • Font Use: Single font - good
  • Color Scheme: blue-green and red - complimentary color scheme
  • Focal point: The post-it note - because it contrasts strongly.
  • Balance: Good balance in this design.
  • Other: I'd get rid of the logo stuff in the lower right corner
​Dani Lawrence:
  • Contrast:  Very strong
  • Repetition: Nothing in this design other than black.
  • Alignment: I would use a strong right-justified alignment to help with balance.
  • Proximity:  Works with your image
  • Font Use: Two contrasting fonts - excellent
  • Color Scheme: Monochromatic
  • Focal point: The lack of the image because it is the area of greatest contrast. Then "Finals week", then the date.
  • Balance: A bit heavy on the left side. If you moved the text to the right and did a strong right alignment, the balance would be better.
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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:
  • Contrast: Good contrast between the text and background
  • Repetition: color, font
  • Alignment: Strong left alignment. I would suggest aligning the title on both the left and right sides. You could do this by adjusting the tracking slightly (Character panel).
  • Proximity: Superb use of space!
  • Font Use: Two contrasting fonts
  • Color Scheme: Monochromatic (Pink)
  • Focal point: Piggy bank first - then the title.
  • Balance: Excellent
  • Other: Nice design, Holly!
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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:
  • Contrast: Excellent
  • Repetition: Font
  • Alignment: Strong left alignment - excellent
  • Proximity: Excellent
  • Font Use: Single font family - excellent
  • Color Scheme: Monochromatci
  • Focal point: The text
  • Balance: Good - the dark area is balanced well by the white text
  • Other: Clean and professional! Good job, Kate!
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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:
  • Excellent design, Katy!
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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:
  • Excellent design, Kole! 
​Landon Peay:
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​Lei Mobley:
  • Lei, for this assignment, the dimensions needed to be 1920x1080 pixels at 72 DPI. This one can't be used on a digital display here on campus. 
  • Nice design, though. The background interferes with the text, so I would think of a way to fix that.
​Lesya Feinstein:
  • ​Lesya, for this assignment, the dimensions needed to be 1920x1080 pixels at 72 DPI. This one can't be used on a digital display here on campus. 
​Lisa Balling:
  • Excellent design, Lisa!
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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. 
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​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:
  • Excellent design, Megan.
​Melissa Johnson:
  • Excellent design, Melissa. One one issue I see...
    • Deadlines vary. Plan ahead!
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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:
  • Excellent! Clean and professional.
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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.
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​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.
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​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:
  • Nice design, Tia! Clean and professional looking graphic. As I look at your design's message hierarchy, the top message is Utah State University - because the logo is the largest, and draws my eyes in first. If you want "Graduating this May?" to be the top level of your message, you need to make it the area of greatest contrast. 
​Whitney Drollette​:
  • Whitney, that's a beautiful photo in the background. You're message is clear, and gets across to the viewer.
  • I think your message would come across more clearly if you had a photo or graphic related to "payment deadline."
​Zak Osgood:
  • Zak, this design's photo will certainly grab attention. The main title really pops, but the text underneath doesn't. It is getting lost in the busy background. Fix that, and you've got a great digital display!