About Me

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Hello all!
I'm Lauren...Welcome to my blog!

Some quick stuff about myself: I'm a 21 year-old senior at Syracuse University, majoring in the graphic design in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.
This is what I've got to show for myself (so far)...enjoy, comment & criticize!
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Personal Website

This personal portfolio website was created for a class called "Designing Interactivity" which provided an introduction to Dreamweaver (CS3), Flash and search engine optimization.
The site is not live (hence, the need for this blog) but will be once the kinks are worked out...for now, check out the design!


News Design

Created for my News Design class.
Requirements: Create a news publication for the small town of Cazenovia, New York. Decide how often your publication will go to print. Must include a cover page, table of contents, a local news page with briefs, a page using one image as the focal point and a sports section front and jump page for a sports article.
**Gray denotes ad space

Publication name: Cazenovian Weekend
Format: News Magazine
Frequency: Weekly

Cover:

Contents:

News Briefs & Local Interest:
"Poster Page" / Image as main focal point spread:

Sports Section Front:

Sports jump page:

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Logo Design: Toy Company

This logo was created for a fictional toy company for a "Type and Image" class.
Requirements: create a logo and stationary set for a fictional toy or game company.
My particular toy was a small, fuzzy, neon-colored worm. (For photographs, see the annual report)







Annual Report: Fictional Toy Company

Requirements: using the same fictional toy company created for the logo project, create an annual report with a visual and verbal theme.

All design elements, graphs, text and photographs are original.
The numbers have been borrowed from existing companies.

Cover:

Inside cover/Contents:

CEO Spread:

Year Summary Spread:


Letter to the Shareholders Spread:

Financial Summary Spread:
Inside Back Cover:

Back Cover:

Website Design/Graphic Standards Manual

Requirements: Create a website for the fictional toy company created for the logo project that incorporates an online version of the annual report assignment as well as a graphic standards manual for use of the logo.
All text, photographs and graphic elements are original with the exception of the "Lego" trophy, the video control panel, taken from YouTube for the appearance of an embedded video and the maze, which has been edited for my purposes.


Index:

Annual Report Page:

Introduction to Graphic Standards (also known as graphic guidelines) Manual:







Monday, March 9, 2009

Autobiography book art

Book jacket for my "autobiography," an assignment for my graphics type & image class.
Text, images and photographs all created by me.




Poster Design

A poster created for my graphics/photography class focusing on type and image.
Created for the Fur Free Alliance poster contest.
All images/drawings are original.

Final:

Original Version: