Graphic design portfolio LarShea West
about me My name is LarShea West. I like to paint, draw and design. I go to Lake Hamilton high School and I am a current student at National Park Technology Center. I am in the Advertising and Design Program as well. I participated in SkillsUSA and won silver in state. From there I went to the SkillsUSA National Competetion. I wanted to create this show the progress that I have made over the past few months.
andy warhol Objective To use an image in a repetitive way to make a replica of Andy Warhol’s Work. o Adobe Photoshop o Abode Illustrator
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M.A.D.E. Objective To create a logo and poster for a summer music and art festival. This was the SkillsUSA State Competition Project. Note: It wasn’t a difficult task, it was just hard trying to figure out how I could represent the music and arts festival in a logo. o Adobe Illustrator o Wacom Tablet o Pencil o Paper o Colored Pencils
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* I ended up making a new logo for this project because I felt like over the past year I’ve became a better designer, so I wanted to show that.
Personal Logo Objective To get inspiration and create a logo that represents ourselves as a graphic designer or a future business leader.
Note: I wanted to create something simple that showed who I was as a designer. o Adobe Illustrator o Paper o Pencil o Adobe Scan o Adobe Capture o Photoshop o Wacom Tablet
Process
*I got inspriration based off of these logos because they were simple and graphic.
FInal Logo
*This is the one that I chose because it is simple, but shows my hand-lettering skills with the Walcom Tablet.
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identity Mockup
NPTC t-shirt design Objective To come up with a design to represent National Park College’s High School graphic design program. Note: I wanted to create something that represents my school but still shows my style. o Wacom Tablet o Adobe Illustrator o Adobe Photoshop o Pencil o Paper
Process
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FINAL DESIGN
*I ended up changing my whole design because I felt like the previous logos didn’t represent NPTC that well.
Christmas Card Objective To create a Christmas themed card for National Park College o Adobe Illustrator
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Final Project
I wanted to create something clean and unique
city harvest Objective To create multiple things for a farm harvest company for my SkillsUSA National Project *I had to create a logo, a kid’s logo, a grocery bag, 3 Instagram Ads, a Handcard. * Note: This was one of the hardest things I have ever had to design, and I wanted to show that even thought it was a hard project, I could still re-create it. o Wacom Tablet o Adobe Illustrator o Adobe InDesign o Adobe Photoshop o Pencil o Paper
city harvest Nurture nature,grow together.
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City Harvest Kid's Club
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I wanted to re-design because I felt like I could’ve made this look way better. I also wanted make it more simplified.
Instagram and Handcard
I wanted to create a new progress because I wanted to show my progress from June of 2018 to October 2018.
Final Design
Halloween card Objective To create a Halloween themed label for candy bags used for a SkillsUSA fund raiser. o Adobe Illustrator o Adobe Photoshop
I wanted to create something that was a cute and funny saying.
Typography Objective To achieve the goal to use grids in Photoshop and align a word in a repetitive way. o Adobe Photoshop I chose to choose the word peace because I wanted something graceful and motivating.
KUHS Logo Objective To design a new and modern logo for a non-profit community radio station. o Adobe Photoshop o Adobe Illustrator o Wacom Tablet o Paper o Pencil
My solution to this project was to cut down the gloss and to make something more clean and simple.
Old Logo
New Logo
low poly Objective
To achieve the goal to use the pen tool in Adobe Illustrator to create geometric shapes over an animals’ body. * Note: the reason why I chose to do a bird is because I felt that it had many details and colors. o Adobe Illustrator o Paper o Pencil
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