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CAROL ALLEN BENTLEY602•702•[email protected]

carolallenbentley.comcre8vblog.wordpress.com

9353 E. Altadena AvenueScottsdale, Arizona 85260

“Most of us have had some experience with self-improvement efforts. My experience has taught me this about how people and organizations improve: the best place to look is for small changes we could make in thing we do often. There is power in steadiness and repetition. And if we can be led by inspiration to choose the right small things to change, consistent obedience will bring great improvement.” -Henry B. Eyring

LogosStationaryBusiness CardBrochureMontagePhotographyEvent AdWeb pageFlier

“Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.” -Gordon B. Hinkley

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LOGOSDISCRIPTION: Unique and original logos to fit a company or personal image. I created these logos for my personal design business.

DATE: COURSE/INSTRUCTOR:October 2015 Comm 160 Section 11/Emily Kunz

PROGRAM/TOOLS:Adobe Illustrator

OBJECTIVES: Using Adobe Illustrator, create new and unique logo designs

PROCESS: I first sketched about a half dozen logo ideas and just played around with design and tried to come up with something clever yet professional. I also looked at a variety of quality logos for inspiration. I then went into Illustrator to create three of the ideas that I liked. I choose three different color schemes for each logo for variety and fun. Typography is an important element in logo design also. I used contrast and white space to make the design work. Using the pen tool, brushes, pathfinder, color, the rotation tool, etc. I put together the logos and then sought out the opinions of friends and other designers.give me feedback on their favorites.

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STATIONARY

DISCRIPTION: Business or personal stationary that is professional yet reflects individual style and personality.

DATE: COURSE/INSTRUCTOR:November 2015 Comm 160 Section 11/Emily Kunz

PROGRAM/TOOLS:Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign

OBJECTIVES: Create a distinctive, professional design for a business brand.

PROCESS: I alway begin a project with brainstorming with paper and pencil. I wanted a clean, colorful but professional look for this project. This logo was specifically created for the letter head and the bright colors create a feeling of freshness and fun.

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BUSINESS CARD

DISCRIPTION: This business card was created to complement the previous stationary project.


PROGRAM/TOOLS:Adobe Illustrator

OBJECTIVES: Create a business card that will complement the business letterhead, contains pertinent contact information.

PROCESS: The logo was designed using Telugu Sangram, a sans serif font and then converted using the pen tool and the shape builder tool in Illustrator. I chose a tetradic color scheme of gold, indigo, lime, and violet. I wanted it to be eye catching, easy to read and give all the necessary information

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BROCHURE

DISCRIPTION: This is an offset two sided brochure to promote the artist group, Waterworks Artists and their spring exhibition.

DATE: COURSE/INSTRUCTOR:December 2015 Comm 160 Section 11/Emily Kunz

PROGRAM/TOOLS:Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, and Word

OBJECTIVES: Design an appealing two sided brochure, create a logo

PROCESS: The Waterworks logo was created in Adobe Illustrator using the pen tools and color selections. The brush image was also created in Adobe Illustrator and edited in Adobe Photoshop.The text was written in Word and imported into InDesign. Using InDesign, the design was laid out and images were placed, including selected images for text wrap. Thought was given to color scheme, use of topography, design principles such as white space, alignment, repetition and gestalt.

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MONTAGE

DISCRIPTION: This is a spiritual poster using a quote from Ezra Taft Benson that supports the theme of “Feed My Sheep”.


PROGRAM/TOOLS:Adobe Photoshop

OBJECTIVES: Show skill in using Adobe Photoshop in creating a montage with a spiritual theme.

PROCESS: I first sketched several ideas to go with several possible quotes. I used three images imported into Photoshop and used layer masks to bled the images, used Gaussian Blur on parts of the background image, used Roman hanging punctuation in the text so that the lettering on the left would align. The Savior’s words and his subdued image lets us know that as we serve one another, we are showing our love for Him. The background image is a field of wheat that is white, ready to harvest - symbolic of missionary work. The sister missionary has a sincere, focused countenance that indicates action to the Savior’s plea.

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PHOTODESIGN

DISCRIPTION: I took this photograph of the solitary bird early in the morniing using my Canon Rebel XT.


PROGRAM/TOOLS:Adobe Photoshop, Canon Rebel XT

OBJECTIVES: Display photographic skills and use of Photoshop

PROCESS: Using the early morning light, I took a series of photographs at a park near my home. I liked the design of the reflection of the bird, rock and branch in the water. It had an oriental serenity. I was grateful to the little bird for so patiently posing for me. I added the transluent bars on the right and the repitetion of the dots to add balance and design to the quote.

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Literacy Volunteers of Maricopa County Educating Adults & Changing Lives

Price of admission: $20.00 Visit or Call Box Office 480-499-TKTS (8587) Tickets available at the door.

Scottsdale Civic Center, Oct. 15-17, 7:00 PM

EVENT AD

DISCRIPTION: Event ad for a Shakespeare Festival which benefited Literacy Volunteers of Maricopa County.


PROGRAM/TOOLS:Microsoft Word

OBJECTIVES: Create an eye catching, appealing event ad

PROCESS: I first found this wonderful image, a painting by one of my favorite artists, James Christensen. This image inspired the idea for a Shakespeare Festival that would benefit illiterate adults to learn reading, writing and job skills. I did several small sketches of possible layouts, scanned the image from a book on my home copier/scanner at 150 dpi, and used Word to design the layout incorporating design principles such as repetition, contrast, alignment, whitespace, etc. The image is a painting by James Christensen, “Judith”, from his book, The Art of James Christensen: A Journey of the Imagination, page 55. The original size of the image in the book was 6x8.5 inches. This was scanned on an Epson WorkForce 635 in my home.

Literacy Volunteers of Maricopa County Educating Adults & Changing Lives

Price of admission: $20.00 Visit or Call Box Office 480-499-TKTS (8587) Tickets available at the door.

Scottsdale Civic Center, Oct. 15-17, 7:00 PM

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WEB PAGE

DISCRIPTION: This was a web page designed to showcase the Bentley Design Logo.


PROGRAM/TOOLS:TextWrangler, HTML, CSS, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop

OBJECTIVES: Showcase skills in using HTML and CSS to create an original web page.

PROCESS: This web page was created in HTML with a CSS style page using TextWrangler. The logo,which was designed in Adobe Illustrator, was sized for the web using Adobe Photoshop. The content was written using HTML required tags for the text, utilizing lists, image, and placing a link to this blog. A working knowledge of CSS to formate colors, using hex colors to match logo; font families and attributes.

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LYERDISCRIPTION: Black and White flier to advertise a graduate leadership conference.

DATE: COURSE/INSTRUCTOR:October 2015 Comm 160 Section 11

PROGRAM/TOOLS:InDesign

OBJECTIVES: Create a flier that will catch the interest of graduate students interested in business leadership.

PROCESS: After reading the content provided by the client, and understanding the message and the audience that we wanted to reach, I sketched multiple layouts ideas for this project. After selecting the elements I wanted, i.e. photo and logo, I set up a project folder and then used my sketch as a basis for this layout in InDesign. I used contrast in the header with an emphasis on Graduate Leadership, black boxes were used for repetition, the gray box that contained the Place, Date and Time overlapped the photo with a veil of transparency. I kept the text small and the white space gives a clean design to the layout. The image, logo and content were provided.

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