Chris's Thoughts

Chris’s Welcome to my thoughts...

Christopher Begay I am a friendly, trustworthy, and fast learning Graphic Designer from Arizona. I have an extremely addictive passion for the graphic design and illustration culture, as well as an interest in web design and interior design. Outside of the design world, I love art and music.

Profile: cbegay44@yahoo.com 505. 801. 7509 P.O. Box 2527, Kirtland NM, 87417 http://www.christhoughts.com

Professional Experience: SJC Out (San Juan College club)

Fall 2011- Worked with a college club on the San Juan College campus to promote the club. Made table tents, business cards, posters, and a logo

Duchy Parade International Films Inc.

Spring 2010 - Worked with an International Film director via e-mail to create a promotional poster for a film presentation.

Education: San Juan College Farmington, New Mexico

Associates of Applied Science, Degree expected Fall 2012 2008 - present - Digital Media & Arts Design (DMAD) - Interior Design minor

Activities/ Volunteer Work: Shiprock Northwest High School Country Western Dance

Spring 2012 - Volunteered with helping the senior class of Shiprock Northwest High School with selling consession items at the event and also helped selling door tickets for the event.

Appliances, Kitchens, Jaccuzi’s and More

EDGE program

Northern New Mexico Film Group

SJC Spring Yard Clean Up

Fall 2009 - Worked with a client and created a small business website for the client.

Fall 2009 - Worked with Debbit Dogget and created a digital sign for an event that went live.

Computer Skills:

Spring 2012 - An active member of the program and attended most meeting and events.

Spring 2009 - Volunteered with helping clean yards of the elderly and those whos yard needed to be clean but they themselves could not clean due to health issues.

Artist Statement: Have you ever wanted to design a concept but could never get the idea across to anyone?

Maybe I can help get your vision across with graphic design.

I am a graphic designer and my unique talent will make your posters pop! Your business will look more brighter and professional.

College Courses: Two Dimensional Design Orientation to Art Color Theory Photography

Introduction to Digital Media Introduction to Photoshop Advanced Photoshop Digital Project Management Portfolio Development Introduction to Marketing Business Advanced Technical Writing

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Promotional Poster

Perspective(s) Magazine

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Perspective(s) Magazine Arts & Literary

Release Party!

Monday, May 07 2012 Room 7128

8:30 am - 11:00 am

Perspective(s) Magazine poster created for for the release of the magazine at San Juan College. The theme of the magazine and the poster are a 1800 Victorian style. Trying to keep this time era in mind when created.

Class: Project Management Medium: Adobe Photoshop

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Original Poster Design

SJC Out Promotional Package

This was SJC Out’s original poster which was redesign on the following page.

Copyrighted Poster provided by SJC Out San Juan College

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Redesign Poster

SJC Out Promotional Package

Poster redesign for SJC Out part of the SJC Out Promotional Identity Package.

The same information presented in a different format. SJC Out gave me their new picture logo for the new poster.

Class: Introduction to Marketing Medium: Adobe Photoshop

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Business Card and Logo Designs

SJC Out Promotional Package

Business card design for the club. It refects the theme of the club, “come and be yourself.” Wanted to make a short mini summarized verison of the poster.

The club had two logo designs for the club that were a little too complex for a logo. Designed a much simple logo for the club to put on what they choose and not worried about it losing it’s image.

Logo Design 1 This was the first logo design came up with, it reflected the gay flag concept and was easily reconizable.

Logo Design 2 My second and final design.

Came up with the design with a team member and constructed the design in Photoshop. Its simple, has a clear message, and it can be scaled to different sizes without losing it’s image.

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Tri-Fold Table Tent Design

SJC Out Promotional Package

A tri-fold table tent designed part of the SJC Out Package.

Designed the tent to get an longer summarized overview of the club than the poster’s information.

Class: Introduction to Marketing Medium: Corel Paintshop Pro, Copyrighted images provided

by SJC Out San Juan College.

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Photo Correction

Before Corrections An old, tattered image my brother gave me to retouch, the top right corner was badly ripped and had been tapped back on. There were cracks, sun damage spots, weathered edges, and fading occurring in the picture.

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Photo Correction

After Corrections

This is the photo after it was scanned into Photoshop and a majority of the flaws had beeen corrected in the photograph. It looks clearer and much brighter after the corrections were made.

Class: Introduction to Photoshop Medium: Adobe Photoshop, Personal Image

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Polaroid Flower Collage Photograph of a desert tulip, made a Polaroid collage for the photograph as if bits and pieces of the flower were taken to make the picture.

The inspiration came from a picture online.

Medium: Corel Paintshop Pro, Personal Image

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Cold Desert Evening My cousin took this picture of my grandmother, borrow the image. Edited the image in Photoshop and created an interesting studio photo. The blanket was kept in color to create an intense contrast to the black and white.

Medium: Adobe Photoshop, Personal Image

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Ferris Wheel of Fortune During Spring Break I went to California and took a photograph of this ferris wheel at the San Monica Pier. The angle that I took the picture from I thought was an interesting angle and captured the feel of the carnival.

Class: Basic Photography Medium: Manual 45mm Camera

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Save the Animals Campaign The focal point of the poster for the organization World Wildlife Fund is an abstract panda reaching out for help. The face of the animal is a Chinese ying-yang symbol to symbolize balance and harmony Class: Advanced Photoshop Medium:Adobe Phototshop

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Sketch of Moon Squirrel Original black and white sketch of “Moon Squirrel”.

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Moon Squirrel Sketching done (on the previous page), scanned the sketch into Photoshop and created a digital painting from the sketch. The tree in the picture was inspired by Tim Burton’s “Nightmare Before Christmas.”

Class: Advanced Photoshop Medium: Adobe Photoshop

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Bamboo Chinese Charcoal Sketch 14

Charcoal sketching made of a painting, however the original picture was a paint by number and after it was sketched and more light was added. The sketched version seemed a lot better than the original.

Class: Two Dimensional Design Medium: Charcoal Pencils

By: Christopher Begay

Poem written later designed in Photoshop.

The backdrop was taken from the essence of the poem.

Medium: Adobe Photoshop

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Tree of Life This tree was at my father’s ranch in Arizona and it seemed like it would make an interesting photo. The exposed roots of the tree gave it life and death.

Class: Basic Photography Medium: Manual 45mm Camera

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Surreal Digital Photo Collage A collage created using Photoshop, the photos in the collage are all online stock images.

Class: Introduction to Multimedia Medium: Stock Images, Adobe Photoshop

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Liberty Furniture Package Another package done for a local funiture company. This package was much smaller, designed a poster and a logo for the company. Theme of the poster was American Made using red, white,and blue as the backdrop. The logo I design was simple straight forward and I used the monograms of the company to create a branded logo look.

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Class: Advanced Photoshop Medium: Adobe Photoshop, Provided Furniture Images.

Duchy Parade International Films Promotional Poster

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Duchy International Parade Films was a film company, from the Netherlands. Worked with the film director of the company and he provided all the images seen on the poster for his films.

Class: Advanced Photoshop Medium: Copyrighted images provided by Duchy Parade Films, and Adobe Photoshop.

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