A Brief PortfolioKevin Moran

I just wanted to give a few examples of my recent graphic design work. These are all from the past few weeks, and I tried to include work throughout all Creative Suite programs. All are laid out through Adobe InDesign.

The first two examples are two versions of a flyer I made for an employee event at my store. We needed a fun and modern flyer to put in the breakroom and on the intranet blog to entice employees to come. On the first flyer, I kept things minimal to fit our women’s spring concept. I made a simple hanger symbol in Adobe Illustrator, and used a stock photo background that I edited curves, saturation, and applied a filter to in Photoshop. I used Helvetica to keep a clean, minimal feel, while keeping the event title in a fun, modern brush font. On the second flyer, I used another stock photo, and matched my page background to the photo’s texture. This time, I used Didot for a more stylish, cultured feel.

The final two examples are from a project I’m working on in my Typography class. It is an exercise in Swiss International Design and grid layouts by making a new cover design for Josef Müller Brockmann’s book, “A Pioneer of Swiss Graphic Design”. I incorporated elements from other Swiss designers’ works as well as my own interpretations. I chose to use yellow in my first sheet as a challenge to see if I could balance the weight of my composition with such a light color, while keeping consistent with Swiss Design’s bold approach.

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A Pioneer of Swiss Design

JosefMüllerBrockmannJosef Müller-Brockmann’s importance as a designer should not just be considered in a historical context. His posters are world famous for their visual tension and communicative power achieved with reduced resources. They enshrine timeless rules of visual communication.Müller-Brockmann, the

leading light of Swiss Graphics in the 50s and 60s, shows in his work that the demand for graphics that are neutral, functional and objective by no means inhibits the designer’s scope. It makes the designer keep his eye on the purpose of his work: communicating and being understood.

Published by Verlag Lars Müller, Printed in Switzerland. Edited by Lars Müller, Foreword by Paul Rand, Foreword by Lars Müller

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Josef Müller BrockmannA Pioneer of SwissGraphic Design

Josef Müller-Brockmann’s importance as a designer should not just be considered in a historical context. His posters are world famous for their visual tension and communicative power achieved with reduced resources. They enshrine timeless rules of visual communication.Müller-Brockmann, the

leading light of Swiss Graphics in the 50s and 60s, shows in his work that the demand for graphics that are neutral, functional and objective by no means inhibits the designer’s scope. It makes the designer keep his eye on the purpose of his work: communicating and being understood.

Published by Verlag Lars Müller, Printed in Switzerland. Edited by Lars Müller, Foreword by Paul Rand, Foreword by Lars Müller

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