Samantha Bain

  For the poster project, I chose a picture and distorted it. I based it around sayings that I always say such as "go with the flow" and "never too late to change". I had fun with this project but next time I should play more with the three tier message in the poster, such as making it bigger and putting it on the body. I love the color palettes I used.

  For this project, we had to make a calligram and use text for a self portrait. The text is snips from my letter to myself which is the background of the project. I like how this one turned out and how the words all come together to create my self portrait. It was tedious and time consuming to make sure the text fit properly everywhere. I spent 10 hours on this project and am satisfied with the final result. 

  For the logo project, I came up with 5 words that describe me and created logo sketches for each work. My mood boards were from Google which gave me inspiration. My 5 words included ambitious, friendly, focused, positive and innovative. My final logo incorporated the word "focused" and I made a target with the word "focused" on the arrow. After finishing the logo, I realized I liked the inverted logo a lot more because of the color choice and it stood out.

  CANVAS PROJECT: POWERPUFF               This was the hardest project I had to do for this class. I spent over 15 hours working on it and trying to figure out dreamweaver. I am so happy with the outcome because of all the time spent on it. Coding was something I have never done and was difficult to grasp. For this project, I used a Powerpuff girl and thought it was the perfect example to use for this project. 

 Hi! My name is Samantha Bain, and I am from Denville, New Jersey. I am a transfer student coming in as a sophomore at the University of Tampa, majoring in Advertising/Public Relations. I chose this specific major because I like how broad and diverse it is. I love design and creativity, and I feel that this major can combine my interests and passions. I wanted to take this class to become more familiar with Adobe software regarding design. I am interested in working with photoshop and illustrator, and I am excited to get to know these programs throughout the first semester. Since high school, I have not taken a design class and am still unsure how to use these programs and feel like this class will benefit me. At the end of this course, I hope to learn more about digital media and design and relate my projects to my major.