LIANNE M ELLIOTT 772.361.9693 liannemelliott91@gmail.com
OBJECTIVE: To gain a job in the field of graphic design where I
can continue to expand my creative knowlege in a work enviornment that promotes good design and creative thinking.
EDUCATION: South Fork High School Graduated in 2009 with high school diploma Flagler College Graduated in 2013 with Bachelor’s in Graphic Design, minoring in psychology and advertising
Lianne is a designer who prefers to design simply and thoughtfully. She seeks to apply her psychology knowlegde to design in every way she can. She looks forward to seeing her dog every day and having dinner with her fiance. She also likes video games and fantasy novels.
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Every challenge is just an opportunity for personal and creative growth.
SKILLS: Adobe Photoshop - CS6 Adobe Illustrator - CS6 Adobe InDesign - CS6 Microsoft Word Microsoft Excel
EMPLOYMENT:
AWARDS:
The Y Drive-Thru Worked as a waitress and cashier the summer of 2009 Ann Taylor LOFT Worked as a sale associate and cashier for Ann Taylor LOFT Outlet from 2011-2012
Korean War Veterans Association JROTC Award Awarded in 2006 for leadership excellence National Sojourners Award Awarded in 2009 for leadership excellence
Ronald McDonald House Charities
Ronald McDonald House Charities has been helping families stay together through hard times for 39 years, but they never run out of people who need help. These pamphlets are meant to help them. One focuses on who the organization is and they believe in. It’s full of information about the charity’s mission and values. The other focuses on what RMHC actively does for their community and the families who rely on them. It discusses the different programs that the charity runs and funds. Attached to each of these pamplets is a donation form, where they can send cash or charge their cards in order to donate to the organization in one form or another. The pamphlets would be distributed in hospital waiting rooms. After reading about the excellence of this charity, people will be more inclined to donate or prehaps volunteer.
Knights Inn
Knights Inn hotels are inexpensive and family friendly, shouldn’t their branding be the same? This design for hotel toiletries is fun for children and adults. Each item carries the wall element of their logo, tying it back to company. They also display icons of a knight character that children may identify more easily with due to his whimsical nature.
The knight icons features a knight’s helm embracing the hotel’s products. We see him with a bathing cap or a shined up helmet or just trying to get some shut eye. By personifying the helm, children will feel more comfortable and at ease in the hotels. Maybe they’ll even want to take a bath. Adults are invited back to the party through the use of strong, “grown-up” typography.
Alliance Tire
Alliance Tire Company sells quality tires for tractors and other farm equipment. Their indentity needed to reflect their agricultural roots along with the quality of their tires. The tire is placed at the bicep of the arm as the muscle. This represents the strength and durability of their product, while indentifying with the typically male farmers who are no strangers to hard work. The green color is a reminder of grass and of the crops that the tires help harvest. The tire tread element is also meant to be a reminder of farm life. Brown accompanies the green throughout the identity package as a reminder of the dirt plants grown in. The letterhead and envelope embody this the most. The business card is a mimick of a tire pressure gauge. The card portion can slide freely, just like a real gauge. It can also be removed, if needed. Overall, the identity package reflects the company’s roots and the strength of their products.
Comet
Comet cleaner has looked the same since I was born in 1991. The familiar green was a favorite cleaner, but also prone to messiness as it didn’t have a lid. This new design uses a lid much like a baby power bottle that can lock and prevent spillage. The design of the labels themsevles have also gotten a facelift. The comet has been reduced to a simple yellow stroke with a character riding on it as the star. Her name is Josephine, taken from a popular character in Comet’s earlier advertising commercials. She’s an upbeat young woman who better represents the modern woman.
CVS
CVS Pharmacy needed a store-brand medication make-over. The main priority was to make sure that customers knew what was in their pills, what they were for and how they would br affected. Each box shows in large letters what the medication is for (such as sleep aid) and then a description of what the medication does in red letters underneath. The boxes also show icons as to if the medication would make the user drowsy. There are also images of what the pills look like, so you always know what you’re getting. CVS is known for being trusted and this design reinforces that trust by telling the customer everything up front and simply.
The icon system in the design is very simple. For drowsy medications, the design shows a closed eye surrounded by peaceful clouds, much like the moon on a beautiful night. For non-drowsy medications, the eye is open with sunbursts coming out of it, mimicking the sun.
Greyhound
Greyhound’s main issue is that people don’t want to take buses for long trips any longer. They feel like they can’t get the same comforts from as bus as they can with a plane or even a train. Now that can change. With the introduction of comfort items such as blankets, pillows and snacks, people can ride in style and comfort.
Lindner Feed
The Lindner Feed and Milling company’s logo needed some help appearing more professional to their clients. Shying away from Texas-shaped gradient they were currently using, I sought to create something that would remind people who Lindner feeds. I also wanted something distinctly agricultural. The drawing of the pig is to emulate an illustration style commonly found on bag of feed from local feed stores around the nation. The diamond shape is a reminder of the signs feed stores and farms have. Combined with a no-nonsense serif and corperate sans serif, this logo is understood as a swine feed company ready to be taken seriously.
Flagler Athletics
The Flagler College athletics department is always looking for new recruits to help them to win victories over their rivals and promote a general sense of school spirit. In order to inspire students to join athletics teams, the following package was devised. There would be a shirt (also for sale at the campus store), a football shaped stress ball and a penndent to show support for Flagler. This package would be mailed out to or be distributed to potential atheletes in order to promote positive feelings about Flagler as a school and Flagler as a place to display their talents.
The designs follow a typical college theme. Typography includes a “dueling-banjos� senerio, with the cursive and serifed typefaces playing againest each other to achieve a perfect harmony. The designs are also mostly distressed, to give each design that old familiar feeling of your favorite shirt or jeans.
The Dresden Files
The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher is a noir-like series of novels about a wizard trying to make a living as a P.I. in modern day Chicago. The books, in a word, are addicting. Many fans of the series recalled being sucked into the books within the first few chapters. This seemed to be a problem. I set out to get them sucked in with just a cover. The project began with completely rereading the series. The covers were meant to look great above all, but also include enough elements of the plot to
be relevent without giving away any of the books’ twists. The result was a set of book jackets that reflected the series’ modern noir theme with each individual cover hinting to the main plot of each book. All of the covers are unified with the Chicago cityscape and a symbol of importance of the main character (the pentacle necklace that once belonged to his mother). Overall, the book jackets well represent the feel of the series and the books, making it a successful redesign.
Caveman Typeface
Caveman is a typeface in both the Roman and Armenian alphabets. Displaying sturdy slab serifs, this typeface can take on the touchest jobs. Beginning with intensive research, Cave got its first start in Armenian. Paying careful study to the creation of the Armenian alphabet, each letterform echoes the strong historical ties that the Armenian culture is proud of. The Armenian characters are more typical of classical orthography and “iron lettering”, which was used to teach the alphabet after its creation in 405 c.e.
Caveman’s Roman brother features the same strong weight and reliable serifs. Caveman is as easily legible from a distance as it is up close, making it a prime choice for designers in need of making a bold statement.
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