Ben Bickerstaff

Below is the portfolio I created with the works from this year. Overall, I had a fun time creating these projects, and enjoyed the process of putting them together into one document. The portfolio was made in InDesign, and was relatively straightforward to make. This semester, I learned a lot about the different softwares, and furthered my skills in each. I enjoyed learning new things about graphic design, and hopefully I am able to use these new skills in the future.

  This project required us to take images of ourselves and place them in a movie scene. I chose a scene from Caddyshack, one of my favorite movies. When working on this project, I had a really fun time placing myself within the scene. The project required a lot of masking, which was something I was familiar with. To place myself within the scene I masked myself behind the bag, using an image of myself at a caddying event this past fall. The tough part for me was matching the lighting. The image I used was relatively bright, and with my pale skin it was difficult to match with the scene. To match the grain between the images I used a film grain overlay, which allowed me to match them pretty well. Overall, I enjoyed this project a lot. It is relatively similar to some of the work I have done before. What makes my work successful was the ability to mask myself into the frame, over another character, as well as how I was able to match the lighting pretty well.

 This project was using InDesign, which is a software I had never used before. we were tasked to create three different business cards using the different colored logos we created. I enjoyed this project. I like making things like this. one of the first things I did when using photoshop was create business cards for my brother's business, so this was very enjoyable for me. I liked InDesign's interface for making these cards. It was relatively simple to figure it all out, and was pretty similar to the other programs in the Adobe suite.  When making these cards, I wanted to give completely different styles. In my previous post about the logos, you can see that my colored logos are all using red and black, however for this project I changed it around. I found that changing the logo colors based on the card would make it look better, and give me more options on what to create. The first card was simple. I took the black and red logo, and made a simple black and white card. Somethin