Animated scenes from an upcoming animated video made for showcasing the Institute for Public Strategies’ focus on D.E.I. (diversity, equity, and inclusion) using its own A.C.T. (Approach to Community Transformation) model. Created with Adobe Illustrator and Adobe After Effects. Animated GIFs were made in Adobe Media Encoder. Music is provided by YouTube royalty free music.
Design and layout of a poster and bookmark for Casa de Oro Alliance Fall Festival 2019. (Created February 2019)
This event is an annual festival run by the Casa de Oro Alliance in their community in East San Diego. The background illustration was created in Adobe Illustrator, based on fall imagery. The poster and bookmark were assembled in InDesign.
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Layout of the Casa de Oro Alliance Spring 2019 newsletter for print. (March 2019)
I made about 4 revisions to this project, mainly stemming from changes in content. I’ve included a previous design (from a different designer) which served as a reference for the current design.
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Design and layout of a flyer for National Drug Take Back Day 2019. (February 2019)
This event is a national event run by the DEA. The pill symbol and Take Back image is credited to the design from the DEA, which I recreated in Adobe Illustrator. I made the background in Adobe Illustrator as well and assembled everything in InDesign. There are two versions, a flyer and a postcard.
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Design and layout of a flyer for a business mixer in Chula Vista. (January 2019)
This event was run by the Institute for Public Strategies as a mixer for businesses in Chula Vista, CA. The flyer was put together in Adobe InDesign.
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Design and layout of a poster for Operation Safe Graduation 2019. English and Spanish versions. (February 2019)
This event is a San Diego event promoting safe drinking behavior among young adults. The word art was made in Adobe Illustrator and poster assembled in InDesign. There are two language versions, in English and Spanish.
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The Westside Impact Project (WIP) in Los Angeles requested a re-design of their logo. (January 2019)
Creation of the new logo was a long process that required several designs and iterations with text and symbols. In the end, a final logo design using Institute for Public Strategies (IPS) colors was decided on.
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Reality Party is a video made for the East County Youth Coalition, a youth project of Institute for Public Strategies (IPS) East County. It is a dramatization of a teen party that is unsupervised and things get worse when alcohol is introduced (December 2018)
The video was filmed in one day on a Sony A6300 with a Rode Mic and limited lighting equipment. It was edited in Adobe Premiere, with graphic effects done in Adobe After Effects.
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