Amanda Bankowski’s

Graphic Design Portfolio

Graphic Design 1 Spring 2010

Professor Sean Nixon

Table of Contents1 – Text on a Page

2 – First, Second, Thirdand 1,2,3,

PowerPoint

3 – Reconstruction of Font

4 - History of the Roman Alphabet PowerPoint

5 – What Makes a Letter

6 - Overview of Written Alphabet PowerPoint

7 – New Letter

8 - Illuminated ManuscriptsPowerPoint

9 - Illuminated Manuscripts Brochure

10 -Restaurant Brochure

* - Real World Assignment

KEYPaper and Pen

PowerPoint Presentation

Layout on InDesign

Text on a PageAssignment 1

Purpose: An outline of the text helps the viewer see how text appears on a page. Each block of text can have a different feeling. Some text has lines that go back and forth while others are justified to be in a square. Color is another element that makes text stand out.

Solution: Cover Text Wrap Advertisement

First, Second, ThirdAssignment 2

Purpose: Identify elements are seen in the order they are seen in. This helps to recognize elements that stick out and figure out why they stick out.

Solution: Real world observations. Click on the link to see more.

http://www.slideshare.net/abankow1/first-second-third-observations?from=share_email

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Reconstruction of LettersAssignment 3

Purpose: San Serif font is different than a Serif font. This project helped to distinguish between different font styles. Even San Serif fonts are different from each other, and each can be used for a different feeling. Finding examples of how these were used help to understand why each was used.

Solution: Text Recreated on InDesign Text in from magazines and everyday objects

History of Roman Alphabet PowerPoint

Assignment 4

Similarities• Common shapes

– Triangles– Rectangles

• Flat tops• Serif texts (4/5)

– One thinner leg– Asymmetrical

Purpose: Proposes a brief history of the Roman alphabet and how different types of fonts were created.

Solution: The whole PowerPoint can be viewed at: http://www.slideshare.net/abankow1/history-of-roman-alphabet-dd21210?from=share_email

What Makes a LetterAssignment 5

Purpose: Created on InDesign, this project was to recognize the repeating shapes that are in the alphabet. This project helped assignment 7, to design a new letter that fits into the alphabet.

Solution: Each letter is color-coded with the shapes that make it up.

Illuminated ManuscriptPowerpointAssignment 8

ManuscriptLatin for hand “manus”Latin for writing “scriptum”

Written by handLuxurious manuscripts were

illuminatedDecorated with pictures in

bright colors and burnished in gold leaf

Appeared as if it was lit up

Brief History

Purpose: Five different alphabets were explored. This PowerPoint examines the shapes that make up each alphabet. The alphabets that were researched include Armenian, Hiragana, Ancient Phoenician, Greek, and Cyrillic.

Solution: The whole PowerPoint can be viewed at: http://www.slideshare.net/abankow1/manuscripts-dd31510?from=share_email

Overview of Written Alphabet PowerPoint

Assignment 6

Armenian Armenian AlphabetAlphabet

Purpose: Five different alphabets were explored. This PowerPoint examines the shapes that make up each alphabet. The alphabets that were researched include Armenian, Hiragana, Ancient Phoenician, Greek, and Cyrillic.

Solution: The whole PowerPoint can be viewed at: http://www.slideshare.net/abankow1/all-alphabets?from=share_email

New LetterAssignment 7

Purpose: With the knowledge from Assignment 5 of the shapes that make up the Roman Alphabet a new letter was constructed that appeared to fit into the alphabet.

Solution: The letter was made up of “C”, “V” and “slanted –”

Illuminated ManuscriptPowerpointAssignment 8

ManuscriptLatin for hand “manus”Latin for writing “scriptum”

Written by handLuxurious manuscripts were

illuminatedDecorated with pictures in

bright colors and burnished in gold leaf

Appeared as if it was lit up

Brief History

Purpose: Five different alphabets were explored. This PowerPoint examines the shapes that make up each alphabet. The alphabets that were researched include Armenian, Hiragana, Ancient Phoenician, Greek, and Cyrillic.

Solution: The whole PowerPoint can be viewed at: http://www.slideshare.net/abankow1/manuscripts-dd31510?from=share_email

Illuminated Manuscript Brochure

Assignment 8Purpose: Take a PowerPoint that was created about Illuminated

manuscripts and translate it into a brochure.

Solution: This brochure is approached from an educational point of view. The brochure educates its reader on Illuminated Manuscripts and how they relate to everyday media.

Restaurant BrochureAssignment 10

Purpose: Create a brochure for a made-up restaurant with the inclusion of a sample of its food and directions to the new restaurant. Learn how a brochure is created and what attracts the reader to open the brochure and to read the columns.

Solution: This restaurant is also a brewery. The interior and front cover both have repeating images of three objects.

Real World AssignmentPurpose: To create a brochure for the Town of Esopus Library Foundation that makes the public aware of this foundation and encourages them to donate monetary funds to support the library.

Solution: The original solution included the library’s natural environment.