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Here are some examples of work that I have done over the years...

Rasmussen College - The DIEM Corporation

This is a fictional company that I created for some of my assignments at Rasmussen College. This link takes you to the complete website for The DIEM Corporation. Located in the Contact sub-section are some documents that I have created including a newsletter, a flier, and a brochure. This document outlines my initial structure for the site as well as the audience I was hoping to appeal towards with my creations. A lot of the text is filler, which you can find about here.

Click above to visit the official website for the completely fake DIEM Corporation.

DIEM Newsletter	DIEM Flier	DIEM Brochure

Ansul Incorporated - AQUASONIC™ Data Sheet

Here is a document that I created for my former employer. I also created a technical manual that is not available online. My typical duties at Ansul included creating technical manuals and sales literature pieces. I worked with engineers to understand the equipment, and then collaborated with our graphic designer to make the piece. I did not know anything about the fire suppression industry when I started at Ansul, but through my skills as a writer and communicator I was able to wrap my head around the concepts and communicate them effectively to a variety of audiences.

Rasmussen College - BUPSE Creations

In one of my classes I learned an acronym for evaluating the effectiveness of a graphically designed document called BUPSE which stands for balance, unity, proportion, sequence, and emphasis. I always liked this tool as it was a way for me to quickly check if a piece I was working on had all of the right elements in it. I made the following page that illustrates this concept in a few different creations I have made including an interactive Flash game and a video.

Click the above image to visit my site on BUPSE, the Principles of Graphic Design.

Ansul Incorporated - SHUROUT™ Data Sheet

Here is another document that I created for my former employer. This was another sales sheet that I made.

Rasmussen College - Eight Elements of Design

Here is a piece that I created for one of my clases. In this document, I focused on eight design elements that can be used when creating a document. The elements I focused on are: serif versus sans serif fonts, ascenders versus descenders, drop caps, kerning, page gutters, text wrap, creating interlaced shapes in Adobe Illustrator, and ligatures (creating unique text shapes in Illustrator). This piece was fun to create because I had to apply my new-found knowledge of the design world, and I had to make an educational piece to help the reader actually do some of these tasks in the real world.

Click below to see my document covering eight elements of design...

Rasmussen College - School of Nursing Video

I knew nothing about video creation when I started taking classes with Rasmussen, but I knew that I had the skills to adapt to new software programs and succeed in making my artistic vision a reality. Using Adobe Premiere Pro was definitely a challenge: not only did I have to record the video, but I also had to sync everything together perfectly...video, sounds, and images. For one of my projects, each student in the class was assigned a school within the college and had to make a video featuring that school. We had to create the video with a potential student's interests in mind: are you thinking of becoming a Nursing student at Rasmussen? Well here are some of the things that might interest you. I spent time with Nursing students and had them show me some of their skills. I liked working on this video and learning a new medium.

Here is a YouTube link to my video. Be sure to turn the volume up to hear it, and turn the volume back down when you are done!

Rasmussen College - Other Documents

Throughout my career at Rasmussen College I made a lot of different pieces. During one of my courses I was presented with some unique challenges such as fitting a lot of text into a page, or using different principals such as alignment to correct a poorly designed document.

Repetition: using repetition, I redesigned this poorly constructed document. Click on each image to see the full PDF file.

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Alignment: using alignment, I redesigned this poorly constructed document. Click on each image to see the full PDF file.

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