dennis wilson portfolio

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Hi. I’m Dennis Wilson.



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Welcome to my portfolio.



Branding



Masella Catering - Logo Design Process

Mesella Catering is a custom catering company romWallingord Connecticut. Tey requested a new logo that

had a trendy yet simple eel to it. A circle was chosen asthe main design element. Tis is the rst version.

ools used: InDesign, Illustrator



Masella Catering - Logo Design Process -2

Tis is the second version submitted to the client. Tey requested that the design have more elements. Te logoswere submitted with custom color pallets to give a moreclear understanding o the colors used.



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Masella Catering - Final Logo

Te client chose this color and design or their new logo.Tey decided to stay true to their original request being

very simple and trendy at the same time.

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Bloop Frozen Yogurt - Store Screens

Bloop Frozen Yogurt is a ranchised chain o rozen yogurt stores.Tey needed new images that would be put on televisions behind

the cash register. Te slides cycle through every ew secondsshowing the customer the promotional items.

ools used: Illustrator



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Grand Street Creative - Logo

Grand Street Creative is a brand new creative agency in Middletown Connecticut that oers public relation,graphic design, and marketing services. Tey wanted aVictorian style street lamp as the main ocus o their logo.



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Catalyst Church - cKids Logo

Catalyst Church, located in Middletown Connecticut, neededa new logo or their upcoming children’s ministry. A childlike

gure was chosen as the main gure in the logo, with the maincolors being the same as used by Catalyst Church.


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Catalyst Church - Info Card

Catalyst Church also needed a ino card or the kids to llout beore they enter the program. Te same colors and

similar layout was chosen as the nal design.

Catalyst Church - cKids Postcard

Catalyst also requested a post card that wasto be sent out during the week to the kids

afer their visit. A simple layout was chosenas a nal design.



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Catalyst Church - App Splash Screen (Ipad, Iphone)

For their newly made Iphone application, CatalystChurch needed a splash screen. Te backgroundchosen is a set o icons that the church uses assymbols or characteristics o the church.



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Harmony Communications - Logo

For a Graphic Design class this logo was created to represent a ctionalcommunications company. Te design was chosen to give the logo the

ability to be viewed correctly rom upside-down or right-side up.




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Aperture Communications - Logo / Ad

Another version o a ctional communications class, this logo wasdesign was chosen as a “gateway” to a better way to communicatewith. Te Ad shows this “gateway” with the use o color.

ools used: Illustrator / Photoshop



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Harmony Communications - Magazine Ad

Tis is a Magazine Advertisement or ApertureCommunications. Te ad is meant to display how usingAperture will make their communication needs much clearer.

ools used: Photoshop



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Hope of Life - Logo Re-design

Hope o Lie is a non-prot organization located in Gua-temala. Tey provide many dierent orms o charitableservice to the people in their town. Tis is the main logoredesign or their organization.

Original Logo Design



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Hope of Life - Book C over

Tis is the ront and back cover o a promotional bookletthat would be passed out at events and people interested

to learn more about the Hope o Lie organization.



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Hope of Life - Spread

Tis is a spread o the eatured article that would be in thepromotional booklet. Te design chosen is a more modernthan what the original organization currently had.



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Clean Sweep Chimney - Website

Clean Sweep Chimney Service is a chimney sweeping company located in Middletown Connecticut. Tis is a mock-up o a new

website design, as their current one is quite dated. Te designis kept very simple with a monochromatic pallet showing their

qualications and services they have to oer.



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Posters & Illustration



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Dual Toughts - Art Communication

A very minimal piece, this poster is a representationo the verse Micah 7:19, where our sins are thrown

into the depths o the sea. Te scale was used to show just how ar that really is.



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Dual Toughts - Ar t Communication

Tis poster was a practical exercise to somehow show two dierent ideas with one image. Te thought bubbleo the man can also be viewed as a mountain scape.



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Self-Promotional - Wilson Bros. / Personal

Tese two posters are sel-promotional. On the lef is actional design team partnered with my brother. On the

right is a sel-promotional piece or mysel. I used very

simple shapes and light textures to display my design.



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Te Gears - Movie Poster

Te Gears is a ctional movie where a set a gearsare used in succession to create a time machine.

Te design or the poster uses a vectored look withminimal shapes to eectively get the message across.



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Bauhaus - Art History

Tese two posters were an assignment to create a piecewhich represents a t ime period in art history. Te designperiod chosen was Bauhaus. On the lef is the rst o the

two drafs. Te right being the nal piece.



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Photo Realism - Goobers

Tis project was an exercise in the program Illustrator.I was assigned to recreate a box o candy with gradientsand gradient meshes to make it look as i it were a photo.

Te bottom right picture shows the piece in wire-rames.



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Publication



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Vast Magazine - Contents

VAS magazine is a ctional magazine created by a group o ourpeople in a Publication Design class. Te idea behind VAS was to

appeal to a guy who was ashionable yet loved to explore and travel. Aguy who is manly in his actions, yet gentle in his demeanor.



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Vast Magazine - Community

Tese 2 spreads are the Contents and Community pages. TeCommunity page is a way or VAS to connect and communicate withtheir subscribers through the hash-tag #VAS. Every week a selectgroup o subscribers who hash-tag their photos will be eatured in the vast community page.



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Vast Magazine - Feature

Tis spread design is or the eatured article o the magazine. A very simplistic geometrical design was chosen or the layout.



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Vast Magazine - Exploring Yellowstone

o keep the design consistent, some o the other spreads kept this samegeometrical type o layout, including this article about the best places tocamp in Yellowstone National Park.



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Thank you for viewing my portfolio.Here are a couple ways of contacting me.



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Email - [email protected] - 860-395-7796

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