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C o m m u n i c at i o n C o n c e p t s I l l u s t r at i o n Print Production

Don Nelson / Design for Print

A G raphic D esign & I llustration P ortfolio

“A mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimension� Oliver Wendell Holmes


My work as a visual communication designer is a designer / client collaboration. Envisioning a persuasive graphic concept, anticipating the viewers response, shaping an authentic visual message. All images Š 2009, Don Nelson, (except as noted), all rights reserved nelson1210 @ yahoo.com / ph 574 289 3781 / mobile 574 208 5518


Michelle Krupa ’00 on the Gulf Coast Mark Phillips in the Alleghenies Paul Higbee ’90MCA on the Great Plains John Fine ’67J.D. in the American West Don Lincoln at the Large Hadron Collider Joe Corpora, CSC, ’76 in Tequepaxpan

Magazine Cover design using John J. Audubon’s Pelican image for a current Gulf Coast story.


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AUSTIN Image and poster design, Austin Texas live music capital.


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Image and poster design for university theatre production


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October 13 - Boston College Luke Gibbons / Global Ireland: from Celtic Twilight to Celtic Tiger September 1- Georgia Tech Vittorio Hosle Why is Goethe’s Faust the Greatest Work of German Literature? September 22 - Michigan State William Evans / Health care reforms: An Economists’s Assessment

October 20 - USC Asma Afsaruddin Combating Extremism: Democratic Virtues and Plurism in Islam

November 10 - Air Force Stephan Fallon / Theological but not Religious: The Case of John Milton

November 3 - Navy Daniel Myers Cops, Protest and Rioting

November 17 - Duke Susan Youens / Words and Music, The Songs of Franz Schubert

Notre Dame Gameday

Experience an intimate discussion with Notre Dame’s most engaging faculty speakers on some of the most pressing issues of our time

Scholars

College football pennant image and poster design proposal to announce football game day lecture series.


The University of Notre Dame will present five environmental films as part of its “Green Screen 2008” series, which will take place Feb. 15 to 17 (Friday to Sunday) in the Browning Cinema of the DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts. Admission is free, but tickets are required and may be ordered in advance from the center box office at 574-631-2800. The films are: “The Last Winter” - This 2007 film directed by Larry Fessenden tells the story of oil drillers in Alaska who become concerned with the irreversible environmental damage they are causing. (Feb. 15 at 10 p.m.) “11th Hour” - Directed by Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, “11th Hour” explores how humanity has impacted Earth’s ecosystems. (Feb. 15 and 17 at 7 p.m.) “King Corn” - This 2007 film by Aaron Woolf is a documentary about the subsidized crop that drives the American fast-food nation. (Feb. 16 at 7 p.m.) “Princess Mononoke” - A 1997 animated film by Hayao Miyazaki, “Princess Mononoke” is a Japanese language film with English subtitles that tells the tale of a war between civilization and nature. (Feb. 16 at 10 p.m.) “Everything’s Cool” - Directed by Daniel B. Gold and Judith Helfand, this 2007 film tells the story of activists on a mission to educate U.S. citizens and politicians about the gravity of global warming. (Feb. 17 at 4 p.m.) Green Screen 2008 is sponsored by the DeBartolo Center, the Center for Ethical Education, the Department of Biological Sciences, the Center for Environmental Science and Technology, the Center for Social Concerns, College Seminar, the Cushwa Center, the University of Notre Dame Environmental Research Center, the Kaneb Center, the GLOBES Project and the Department of Film,

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Poster design proposal to announce film series.


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University of Notre Dame Law School

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University of Notre Dame Law School mark bottom

Mark for Discover Michiana Publishing


Element Exploration / Phoenix Arizona top

Logo for an Arizona mineral exploration company bottom

Logo for a Social services agency in Galway Ireland

Opening Doors

Galway


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Mark for Fordham University digital publishing proposal bottom

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Div. Preparing the Way of the Lord

Illustration about a Master of Divinity Program


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Lady Bird Lake Trail

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Mark for a t-shirt bottom

Nameplate for magazine redesign mockup

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Mark for magazine section bottom

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Typographic image for a poster


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Mark for Notre Dame Development Office. Design by Don Nelson & Paul Wieber bottom

T-Shirt image

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Top & middle, Magazine illustrations. Bottom, book cover illustration


Magazine illustration about young people


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Top & middle, magazine illustrations. Bottom, book cover image about conscience.


Magazine illustration for a story about a father who was a national park ranger


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Magazine Illustration


Magazine illustration


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. 574-208-5518 . 574-289-3781 nelson1210@yahoo.com Illustration & Magazine Design

Magazine redesign cover mock-up

Magazine illustration about life changing events.


Illustrations for magazine feature story about rural life.


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Magazine cover illustration, The Creative Life, a theme issue about alumni who do creative work.


Magazine cover illustration about significant life changing events.


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Cover, Notre Dame: Today and Tomorrow Notre Dame Avenue, pictured, is an image that communicates the rich experience of coming to Notre Dame. Photograph by Don Nelson.


Cover illustrations: top left, The Creative Life, theme issue about creativity. top right, Save the World, about alumni abroad. bottom left, Once in a Lifetime, about life changing experiences. bottom right, Freedom, theme issue cover exploring the concept of personal freedom using a posterized stock photo.


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Secrets of the Lakes

Cover, Secrets of the Lakes, about Notre Dame’s north woods undergraduate research center in Wisconsin. Photograph by Don Nelson


Top left, book cover design. Top right, book cover design & illustration. Bottom, poetry book cover design and illustration, and a page from the book.


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nelson1210@yahoo.com 574-208-5518 Illustration & Poster .Design

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Left, illustration for university business school directory. Right, university law school catalog cover design and illustration.


Above, brochure cover design and illustration for an editors conference. Left, magazine re-design cover mockup


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Drawing for theatre poster and poster design


Poster design for a university theatre production


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Poster design: one of four “seasons� gift posters for magazine subscribers. Primary photographer; Matt Cashore.


Magazine Illustration


Don Nelson / Design for Print

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Poster design and illustration for 2-color poster.


Don Nelson / Design for Print nelson1210 @ yahoo.com

ph 574 289 3781 / mobile 574 208 5518 1210 East South Street, South Bend, Indiana 46615

A collection of my landscape photography in the American West is at www.westbysouthwestimage.com



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