PostcardsHaiku Postcard Series{A design exercise in which students wrote a poem

about graphic design and created a postcard series. We then swapped postcards with a colleague, and redesigned their postcards, and following that, we did one more swap. These are the results.

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LETTERHEAD & ENVELOPE

Pins & Needles is a clothing store for the gothic community. In order to suit their needs I went to my fine arts roots and used a composition of hand drawn and computer graphics resulting in these items including, but not limited to, logo, letterhead, envelope, business card, hang tag, and tee shirts.

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EDUCATION • FINE ARTS • PERFORMING ARTS • SCIENCES HUMANITIES • SOCIAL SCIENCES

BROOKLYN COLLEGEGRADUATE OPEN HOUSE

FALL 2009

Office of Admissions2900 Bedford Avenue

Brooklyn, NY 11210-2889www.brooklyn.cuny.edu

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EDUCATION • FINE ARTS • PERFORMING ARTS • SCIENCES HUMANITIES • SOCIAL SCIENCES

BROOKLYN COLLEGEGRADUATE OPEN HOUSE

FALL 2009

Office of Admissions2900 Bedford Avenue

Brooklyn, NY 11210-2889www.brooklyn.cuny.edu

Program Booklet CoverBrooklyn College

Graduate Open House{This was one of my first projects with Brooklyn College that I made from concept to finish. I wanted to emphasize the impressive number of graduate programs they have and implemented the names of all of them in a light opacity in the background. This was placed behind appropriate images from the majors that the Enrollment Services Department wanted to highlight.

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that an exciting new residence facility exclusively for Brooklyn College students is nearing completion?

The new residence hall is anticipated to be available for occupancy for the Fall 2010 semester. It will house up to 290 students in 220 full-furnished units of varying configurations, including:

• Two Bedroom - three students with one shared room and one private room

• Two Bedroom with private entrances - two students with two private rooms

• Studio Apartment - either one or two students (shared or private)

The rent amount will include all utilities and a broad range of amenities.

UNIT AMENITIES: Bathroom Kitchenette Wi-fi internet Cable TV Large window Air conditioning

BUILDING-WIDE AMENITIES:Laundry facilities Proximity key access 24 hour security Meeting and study rooms Exercise room Outdoor Terrace Courtyard Lounges

Brooklyn College will also provide security and transportation to and from campus.

Please note that space is limited and demand will be strong, so the earlier you apply, the better.

To apply to Brooklyn College and to be considered for a place in the residence hall, click on Admissions at the college web page: www.brooklyn.edu

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Residence Hall{This poster, done in both 20 x 30 and in 8.5 x 11,

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BCAA Palm Beach Chapter Scholarship,Due to your generous support, I am the second in my family to formally attend college.

-Sergine Beaubrun, Class of 2012

Nettie Wengrover Silver ’40 Memorial Scholarship Award,I’m not sure what career path I’m taking, but I know that this scholarship will give me the confidence to undertake whatever goals I set my mind to.

-Rachel Lily Benun, Class of 2010

Samuel A. Moore Memorial Award,I graduate and leave with no regrets, no qualms about my preparedness for the future – only an unrelenting belief that Brooklyn College has provided me with four years of education – academic and for life. I do not have to be one dimensional – something I now view as dangerous for the future.

-William Aibinder, Class of 2009

A scholarship canmake a world of difference...

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Postcard for Brooklyn College

Scholarship Office{Not only is this piece aesthetically pleasing, it also represents a rare opportunity where I was allowed free reign over the color scheme. I chose the orange from the BC color palette, and a deep, rich, sophisticated brown. “Thank You” letters from students were selected for the card to encourage applicants, along with photos showing the diversity of the students and programs available at Brooklyn College.

Admission FormsBrooklyn College{Not only is this piece aesthetically pleasing, it also

represents a rare opportunity where I was allowed free reign over the color scheme (the college color scheme was undergoing an overhaul). I chose the orange from the previous color palette, and a deep, rich, sophisticated brown. “Thank You” letters from students were selected for the card to encourage applicants, along with photos showing the diversity of the students and programs available at Brooklyn College.

Our programs include: Lev Leytzan’s CLOWNS ON CALL -- trains ambitous youth and adults to use their talent and compassion to deliver doses of laughter and joy through medical/therapeutic clowning and circus arts. We visit hospitals, nursing homes, senior centers, shelters for abused people, camps and those recovering at home among many other settings. We serve people of all ages and affiliations, with sensitivity, compassion and mounds of love using humor to lift their spirits along with parents, doctors, and nurses charged with thier care. Lev Leytzan’s CLOWNS FOR SAFETY SQUAD - is a youth troupe that creates clown and circus performances to teach and promote safety education to pre-school and elementary age children. Our current shows are “Candle with Care” for general audiences and “Learn, Don’t Burn” for children with disabilities -- both promoting fire and burn prevention and candle safety. Lev Leytzan’s INTERNATIONAL AMBASSADORS - The Ambassador Program identifies and sends trained clowns to emotionally needy and isolated Jewish communities overseas, many of whom were victims of the Holocaust and communist oppressions. Lev Leytzan’s Ambassadors bring a unique brand of relief through laughter, visits and forming personal relationships. The Ambassadorsfocus on the aging Holocaust survivors, home bound and isolated individuals, nursing home and hospital visits, those battling serious illnesses and their families, youth programs for children from disadvantaged homes and special needs.

Lev Leytzan: The Compassionate Clown Alley, Inc.is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization.

Dr. Evan & Lisa Pockriss invite you to join them for a

Melave Malkah to benefit

Lev LeytzanMotzei Shabbos, February 6, 2010At 8:30 p.m.

at our home290 Ocean Avenue, Lawrence, NY 11559

Guest SpeakerSara Barris, Psy.D., “Humor & Healing”

Lev LeytzanThe Compassionate Clown Alley, Inc. ™

Fundraising InvitationLev Leytzan

This client was one of the greatest challenges of my young career; designing something classy for a non-profit clowning organization! I used the colors and playfulness of clowns and combined it with classical design techniques to great something fun for that would appeal to adults.

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Fundraising AdvertisementLev Leytzan{

Another example of work for Lev Leyzan for a Bowl-a-thon event they were running. It is meant to visually appeal to both children and adults to attend.

Mesivta Ateres YaakovRuth & Hyman Simon School

131 Washington Avenue | Lawrence, 11559ateresyaakov.com

Rabbi MeiR bRaunsteinMashgiach

516.374.6465 x54mbraunstein@ateresyaakov.com

Rabbeim for Life Education for Life

Torah for Life

Mesivta Ateres Yaakov Ruth & Hyman Simon High School131 Washington Avenue, Lawrence, NY 11559 | Phone (516) 374-6465 | Fax (516) 374-1834www.ateresyaakov.com | admin@ateresyaakov.com

Rabbeim for Life. Education for Life. Torah for Life.

Rabbi Mordechai Yaffe, Ph.D.Menahel

Rabbi Sam Rudansky, M.A., J.D.Principal General StudiesRabbi Yossi Bennett

Assistant Menahel/PrincipalRabbi Meir Braunstein

MashgiachRabbi Yehuda Horowitz

Mashgiach RuchaniRichard Miller

Executive DirectorRabbi Noach Haller

Development Director

Board of DirectorsMark Gold, Co-President

Robert Schonfeld, Co-PresidentZev Golombeck, Vice President

Eliezer Allman, SecretaryDr. Neil Adler

Moshe AuerbachMoshe Engel

Dr. Joseph JeretDr. Steven KadishMenachem Kagan

David KirschnerShmuel Klahr

Dr. Gerald Korman Jeffrey Kramer

Stuart NussbaumElliot Polatoff

Chaim PuderbeutelShiu Reichmann

Moshe SomersteinDr. Sam Straus

Dr. Joseph SturmRabbi Dr. Chaim Wasserman

Menashe WeissShmuel Wolf

Founders BoardRobert Levinson

Mark SilberHerbert Somerstein

Shulie Wollman

Mesivta Ateres YaakovRuth & Hyman Simon School131 Washington Avenue Lawrence, NY 11559

Rabbeim for Life. Education for Life. Torah for Life.

Identity SystemAteres Yaakov {MAY High School, a school that was literally on

the brink of closing and instead, the community pitched in to get them back on their feet again. I began with a new identity system.

AdvertisementAteres Yaakov{

I got such a good feeling doing this ad. It has been three years since I started working with Ateres Yaakov, and creating an ad able to showcase a full roster shows what a long way they came. I am proud to be an integral part of their recovery

By VLADIC RAVICHHow bad is the MTA’s deficit? Accord-

ing to the Straphanger’s Campaign, theMTA is now the fifth largest debtor in theUnited States, behind only California,Massachusetts and New York State andCity. By 2012, the MTA’s interest paymentswill eat up $2 billion annually and is theagency’s single largest growing expense.

Buses and subways are essential inNew York and while no one wants to goback to the bad old days (after the disin-vestment of the 1960s and 70s the MTAnearly collapsed, followed by a 17 per-cent drop in ridership and a loss of 5percent of the region’s population),many Queens residents are not buyingthe calls for “fairness” and “spreadingthe burden” that would result in tolls onthe free Harlem and East River bridges.

The City wants to change its relation-ship with car owners. Between the pro-posal by former MTA Chairman RichardRavitch, an increase in vehicle registra-tion fees and other potential commutertaxes, such as a possible rise in the gastax and federal interstate tolls, theseplans will make it more expensive todrive in New York. Should this be pre-sented as a new burden or a new para-digm? Should the City tell its motorists

Where Are We Going?

that driving into the City is a privilegeand not a right?

The Right Choice?“The short answer is yes, absolutely!”

said Wiley Norvell, the communicationsdirector for Transportation Alternatives.The arguments in favor of the originalplan, with $5 tolls, an 8 percent hike inexisting tolls and fares and a business

“mobility tax” of 33 cents for every$100, were that everyone who ben-efits from mass transit – not just itsriders – should pay for it instead ofborrowing. “No more free lunch,” asRavitch put it.

State Assembly Speaker SheldonSilver, who helped kill congestionpricing, has a modified version of theRavitch plan that is currently beinghammered into shape in Albany. Ini-tial reports of the discussion showedthat a compromised $2 toll would beenough to pass the plan, but as ofpress time, the bill is stuck in theState Senate over resistance fromQueens and Bronx Senators who,along with City Comptroller andmayoral hopeful Bill Thompson, op-pose any new toll.

“No one drives to Manhattan be-cause it’s fun,” said State AssemblymanRory Lancman (D-Fresh Meadows). “Thenotion that we should squeeze peopleto not use their cars is not good policy.”

Lancman opposes the tolls as “anunfair and regressive tax on outer bor-ough commuters that don’t have ad-equate transit options.” He argued thatthe projected revenue from the new tolls(at $5) was $1 billion, but only $600 mil-lion would ever enter the MTA as rev-enue, since the rest would be spent onimplementing and administrating thenew “gateless” electronic tolls. If the mo-bility tax was raised from 33 cents to ap-proximately 46 cents on the $100, itwould generate the same revenue with-out the toll hike.

A More Fair Fare?The claims that the tolls revenue

would be wasted on administration aredisputed by the Environment DefenseFund, which sent Mary Barber, the cam-paign director for their Living Cities pro-gram, to Albany to advocate for a billthat would prevent the “doomsday” bud-get the MTA would have to follow if nonew funding is found.

Barber said the EDF thinks the tolls,even at a compromised $2 rate, wouldbe more fair and would maintain the deli-cate balance of interests needed to passthe plan on a statewide level. “This planrepresents a sacrifice for everyone andit’s a shared sacrifice. If you start bur-dening any one sector too much, you’lllose the general support.”

The notion that the tollswould be wasted on ad-ministration is also erro-neous, because much ofthe $400 million set asideas expenses would payfor the bridges’ upkeepand repair, easing thebudget sources that cur-rently pay that fee. Theimplementat ion costswould be much less oncethe system is established.

At a recent town hallmeeting in JacksonHeights, Ravitch laid outhis argument for stabiliz-ing and increasing therevenue sources of theMTA by arguing that tollswould not reduce the

The issues addressed by Ravitchare not exclusively whether or not totoll the bridges, even as that debatedominates the headlines. The plan isfull of surprising and often insightful sta-tistics and arguments that get lost asthe legislators start corralling the votes.

· If no action is taken, the “doomsday”MTA budget would eliminate two sub-way lines, four bus lines and three LIRRlines in Queens alone. This would becompounded by a 23 percent fare andtoll hike and a litany of severe servicecuts all over the borough.· The current ly free Queensboro

Bridge handles twice the traffic of thenearby $5 Midtown Tunnel, accordingto the Independent Budget Office andthe NYCDOT.· Under a $4 East/Harlem River toll,

Queens overall would see a 6 percentdrop in roads with severe congestion,while Western Queens would see a 46percent drop due to so-called “bridgeshopping,” according to the DOT.· American households save about

$6,000 a year if they have access tomass transit and generate nearly 5,000lbs fewer greenhouse gases – a sav-ings bigger than winterizing your home,replacing light bulbs and old appli-ances combined, according to theAmerican Public Transit Association.· The Ravitch plan proposes to raise

transit fares by 8 percent (which palesto the 23 percent hike in the “dooms-day” budget that goes into effect if nochanges are made), but it also hikesexisting tolls by the same 8 percent.· The Ravitch report says that the latest

MTA capital program alone generated asmany as 346,000 total worker-years ofemployment, $29 billion in regional eco-nomic activity, $1 billion in income taxes

and $12 billion in wages statewide.· A large portion of the MTA’s current

revenue comes from taxing real estatetransactions, which in recent yearseven occasionally generated a surplusfor the agency. This was considered afair tax because mass transit increasedproperty values. As the housing bubbleburst, this cyclical revenue stream col-lapsed, laying bare the debt burdenshidden during the boom years.· One important indictor of the health

of the MTA’s budget is the farebox re-covery ratio, which calculates the per-centage of operating costs that is cov-ered by the fares paid by riders. For2008, it was a healthy 53.3 percent. Ifthe long term expenses such as equip-ment depreciation and debt servicesare factored in the ratio it falls to 36.3percent, highlighting the burden of theMTA’s financial baggage.· The Ravitch plan would allow the MTA

to raise fares up to twice a year, butonly at the same rate as the RegionalConsumer Price Index, which is deter-mined by rates of inflation. Any greaterfare hikes would require full public in-volvement through the existing publicnotice and hearing process.· The Ravitch report recommends sev-

eral bureaucratic changes to the Boardpositions and terms of office at the MTAthat are aimed at providing a more re-sponsive and independent agency andseeks to prevent the public distrust soevident today.· According to the New York Metropoli-

tan Transportation Council, roughly 5percent of Queens residents commuteto Manhattan alone in their car. Of allthe driving trips taken by Queens com-muters, only 1 in 19 go to Manhattan.Also there is only one driving trip to Man-hattan for every 11 transit rides.

Other Elements Of Ravitch’s Plan

number of cars, “only a better mass tran-sit would.”

To that end, his plan calls for the rev-enue generated by the mobility tax –around $1.5 billion – to go into a special“lockbox” that would be under the pur-view of a new, legislatively created MTAsubsidiary - the MTA Capital Finance Au-thority (CFA). Aside from a one-time useto plug this year’s budget, these rev-enues would be mandated to be usedexclusively to pay for new borrowing anddirect expenses related to the MTA’scapital program and the debt associatedwith the Authority’s expansion projects.

Those projects are focused on main-taining the system at a high level of re-pair and substantially increasing therapid bus transit programs currentlydrawing enthusiastic reviews at severaltest sites around the city. This would bethe future of the MTA’s expansion – morestate-of-the-art express buses to theouter boroughs to take the place of thereduced car traffic.

What Is The Future?According to Norvell, the entire De-

bate surrounding these tolls and taxes isa peculiar way to decide the future of theCity’s transit. “We fight a lot of little battlesbecause we never had the big one. Noone has ever laid it out clearly to NewYorkers that all of these things, like bikelanes and bridge tolls are all part of alarger vision for New York. It’s vision wherepeople drive less.”

Norvell compared today’s debate tothe one in the late 1960s that resulted inthe creation of the MTA, which was pre-ceded by Metropolitan Commuter Trans-portation Authority, which was only re-sponsible for mass transit. The cash-strapped MCTA became the MTA in 1968when it took over operations of the NewYork City Transit Authority and TriboroughBridge and Tunnel Authority, based onthe argument that commuters’ tollsshould be used to maintain the masstransit system that allows driving to bepossible at all. Norwell called the deci-sion “a great moral leap […but] wehaven’t really built on that in the yearssince.”

“We need a frank discussion of whatdriving costs our city,” said Norvell. “If newYorkers continue to drive at the rates thatthey do, our city’s transportation systemdoesn’t have much of a future.”

“We recognize that we’re a minorityview,” he continued, “but if you look atBogota, Paris and London, they weren’tdifferent from New York, but in the spanof five or so years, they’ve transformedthe way people move. Each of themstarted with a theme and then moved onto specific concrete projects. Whereasin New York we’re going the other way,hoping to rack up enough small suc-cesses to prove to New Yorkers that thisstuff works and then hopefully they’llcome around to the bigger picture.”

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page of the paper and was the only one allowing creative freedom with color and type. Here is just one example of one of mine working with the photos provided and the given text.

Sara M. Gold 144-55 Melbourne Ave

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saramgold@gmail.comsaron@brooklyn.cuny.edu

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PC & MAC | Adobe Creative Suite CS – CS5.5 | InDesign | Illustrator | Photoshop | Dreamweaver Fireworks | Quark | Pagemaker | Pre-Press | Basic HTML | Basic Flash | Microsoft Office | Word PowerPoint | Publisher | Excel | Outlook Express

CUNY Queens College 2007B.S. in Graphic DesignMinors in Journalism & Fine Arts (with Honors)

CUNY Queens CollegePre-Press Graphic Designer (January 2012 - Present)• Designed materials for the “QCard” greatly increasing its awareness on the campus and local community.• Participated in and coordinated brainstorming marketing meetings.• Works as quality control ensuring that all designs print correctly• Advised the designers Creative Services department in creating correct files for print, while also advising the Pressman of the importance of checking the quality printing. This increased the overall use of the printshop by the Creative Services and the quality of prints emerging from our printshop.

The Queens TribuneGraphic Artist (October 2007- December 2011)• Created advertisements satisfying both salespeople and customers, as well as working with a team of designers on layout and typesetting of news pages to meet weekly print deadlines.• Promoted to sole designer managing all graphics involving Classified Advertising (March 2009)• Assisted in updates several of the monthly special editions of the website• Worked with editorial staff to ensure spelling and grammar corrections were done accurately, whether by reading proofreaders marks or double checking for errors

CUNY Brooklyn CollegeGraphic Artist (March 2009 – December 2011) • Designed materials for college events such as Undergraduate, Graduate and Honors biannual open houses• Managed a multitude of projects simultaneously involving multiple college events and promotional items• Created and designed social networking sites using the tools supplied by Ning.com• Created graphics and promotional items including bookmarks, brochures, programs, and postcards• Created slideshows using PowerPoint for use as presentations as well as campus plasma televisions

Sara M. Gold DesignsIndependant Graphic Designer (Ongoing since 2007)• Manages and maintains all graphics material, and marketing campaign for major neighborhood high school• Designed advertisements for clients seeking increased local awareness• Designed logos and identity for local businesses• Created complete newspaper publication for several non-profit organizations including the organization of all materials, including layout (and creation) of ads and articles as well as pre-press work.

CUNY Queens CollegeArt Department Internship (Fall 06 - Spring 07)• Programmed the new Queens College Art Department web site

ResumeSara M. Gold{

Thank you for taking the time to review my work. I am really proud of my work and this is just a glimpse of what I am capable of doing. My resume will give you a good idea where I am coming from, and I hope my portfolio peices have given you an idea of where I am going.