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Hello my name is Ross Allen and I am a Graphic Designer. I was born on November 1st 1990 in Independence Missouri. I specialize in page layout, logo, web site, and poster design.

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About meRoss Allen

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Currently attending Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas studying Animation in the Information Systems Academic Program. Also attending Metropolitan Community College to receive a Graphic Designer Degree. Job experience is includes working at Sam’s Club for a summer and currently working for Old Time Pottery for three years. Graduated with a High School Degree from St. Mary’s High School in Independence, Missouri in 2010. Honor Roll achievement for all four years in High School. Also have the capability to type 40 words per minute.

Ross S. Allen, Contact Info: 3104 Victoria Lane Home: (816) 229-5020Blue Springs, Missouri Mobile: (816) 223-7904

3/2015-Present - Old Time PotteryResponsibilities include cashier, stocking, customer service, cleaning restrooms, straightening out rugs, cleaning broken items, and doing carry outs for customers.

Summer 2013 – SAM’s Wholesale Club – IndependenceResponsibilities include loading and unloading store merchandise for business and consumers as directed. Also responsible for the moving and storing shopping carts in the proper storage area.

2011 – Currently Attending Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas to attain Associate’s Degree in Animation and Graphic Design.

2011 – Also attending Metropolitan Community College to receive a Graphic Designer degree.

2006 – 2011-Received High School Diploma (2010) St. Mary’s High School, Independence, Missouri.

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These are my concept designs for my personal logo. I dicided to use a simple black and white color with text and decided to use white lines to add a fadding effect to the logo.

Skills used:Adobe Illustrator

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This is a book cover I made for the iconic epic “Beowulf”. I wanted it to look like an old fantasy book and I thought it would be interesting forshadowing for the sowrds in the cover to represent the heroes fate after encountering the monster it was pointing to.

Skills used:Adobe InDesign

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BEOWULF

Long ago in a time when Monsters roamed the world unmatched there exists one strong enough to stand against them. He is a mighty warrior who shows the monsters that they have something to fear. he will face three freasome opponets in his lifetime. his story is one of the oldest tales to be known. May these monster that lurk in the darkness fear the warrior destined to become king BEOWULF.

Translator: J.R.R. Tolken

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I wanted to make a symbol thet would be a universal greeting to life in other worlds. I usd a silhouette of a man holding a friendly hand and gave him various colors representing the different types of people on Earth.

Skills used:Adobe Photoshop

Universal Greeting to Inteligent Life in the stars

WelcometoEarth

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I wished to create a visual chart on the process of Video Game Level design. I wanted it to look like a classic Mario Level. I tried to make it 3D but it did not look right. Each obsticle is a step on the process and says how many days it takes to complete it.


Video Game Level Design Process

Idea

Setting, location, and theme

Objectives, obtacles, and set pieces

Project purpose

Set of features

Photo reference and research

Environments story

Focal points

Top down layout

Visual Development

Making lists

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I created a poster and card for a fictinal lecture from the legendary designer Saul Bass. I wanted to replicate his art style when making the poster. I also put pieces of his work on the poster and card so people will know the iconic poster or logos he created.

Skills used:Adobe Illustrator Saul Bass

Mon, 04/06/2017 7:00pm CA209

Presented by the MCC-Penn Valley Graphic Design

Program

Graphic Design Visiting Designer Lecture Series:

www.mcckc.edu/programs/graphicdesign/lecture-series

Mon, 04/06/20177:00pm CA209

Presented by the MCC-Penn Valley Graphic Design Program

Saul Bass

Graphic Design Visiting Designer Lecture Series:

www.mcckc.edu/programs/graphicdesign/lecture-series

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I used type design to display three different fonts designed by Stanley Morison. I curved some edges to have a more dynamic look to it and made the box around the font displays black to make them stand out more.


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Morison was an influential British typographer, printing executive and historian of

printing.Morison was an influential adviser to the British Monotype Corporation,

advising them on type design. His strong aesthetic sense was a force within the

company, which starting shortly before his joining became increasingly known for

commissioning popular, historically-influenced designs that revived some of the best

typefaces of the past, with particular attention to the early period of printing from the

Renaisssance to the late eighteenth-century, and creating and licensing several new

type designs that would become popular. Original typefaces commissioned under

Morison's involvement included Times New Roman, Gill Sans and Perpetua.

Perpetua

Gill Sans

Times New Roman

Stanley Morison was born in Britain on 6 May 1889, at

Wanstead, Essex, but spent most of his childhood and early adult years (1896–1912) in London at the family home in Fairfax Road,

Harringay. He was self-taught, having left school after his father

abandoned his family.In 1913 Morison became an editorial

assistant on The Imprint magazine.On the imposition of conscription in 1916 during First World War, he was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned. In 1918 he became design supervisor at the Pelican Press, which published material critical of the war. He moved on to a

similar position at the Cloister Press. In 1922, he was a founder-member of the Fleuron Society, dedicated to typographic matters (a fleuron being

a typographic flower or ornament). He edited the society's journal, The Fleuron, from 1925 to 1930. The quality of the publication's artwork and printing was considered exceptional. From 1923 to 1925, he was

also a staff editor/writer for the Penrose Annual, a graphic arts journal.

From 1923 to 1967, Morison

was a typographic consultant

for the Monotype Corporation.

In the 1920s and 1930s, his work

at Monotype included research

and adaptation of historic

typefaces, including the revival of

the Baskerville, Blado (1923) and

Bembo (1929) types. He

pioneered the great expansion

of the company's range of typefaces, and hugely influenced the field of

typography to the present day. (But his notes in his A Tally of Types about

his early days with Monotype and its program of typographic revivals are

not always correct.) In 1927, the British Monotype Corporation hired

Beatrice Warde, quickly named the company's Publicity Manager and

has been credited with spreading Morison's typographic influences

through her own writings.

Morison was also typographical consultant to The Times newspaper from

1929 to 1960; and in 1931, having publicly criticised the paper for the poor

quality of its printing, he was commissioned by the newspaper to produce a

new, easy-to-read typeface for the publication. Times New Roman, the

typeface which Morison developed with graphic artist Victor Lardent, was

first used by the newspaper in 1932 and was issued commercially by

Monotype in 1933. Morison edited the History of the Times from 1935 to 1952,

and was editor of The Times Literary Supplement between 1945 and 1948.

In 1960, Morison was elected a Royal Designer for Industry. He was a member of the editorial board of Encyclopædia Britannica from 1961 until his death in 1967. He was offered a knighthood in 1953 and the

CBE in 1962, but declined both. He died in London on 11 October 1967.

May 6 1889 – October 11 1967

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I made collective stamps based on famous warriors that include a samurai, ninja, knight, and gladiator. Each stamp has the warriors head gear and their weapons. I also made a poster advertising the stamps. I made the pster look like an ancient battlefield with arrows in the air and weapons on the ground

Skills used:Adobe IllustratorAdobe Photoshop

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I created a fictional cat food company and called it CatBird. I used three simple colors, red meaning health, white meaning immune system, and purple meaning long life. These are my designs for the cat food and cat treat boxes. I wanted to go for a simplistic look but I also added confettie to the left and right side of the boox to add a little flair to it.


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CatBird Cat treats

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These are my CatBird gift bag and box set. The gift bag holds cat food and treats and the box set holds the cat food and treats. The gift bag is where I came up with the confettie. I originally inteded it to look like cat food but decided to make it look more like confettie to make it stand out. I made the box set in s simular style to the gift bag but decided to make cat faces on the lef and right sides to make it stand out


CatBird Pet foods

CatBird Pet foodsGift Bag

Box Set

H: 10 in W: 12in

H: 10 inW: 4 in

H: 4 inW: 12 in

H: 4 inW: 4 in

H: 10 inW: 4 in

CatBird Pet foods

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I made self promoting items in the same style as my logo. This is the letter head, buisiness card, and envelope made in my style.


Ross Allen Ross Allen

3104 Victoria Lane

Phone: (816) 223-7904

Email: [email protected]

www.rossallen.com

Independence, MO 64015

Graphic Designer

Ross Allen Ross S. Allen3104 Victoria LaneIndependence, MO 64015

Ross Allen

Ross Allen Ross Allen

3104 Victoria Lane

Phone: (816) 223-7904 Email: [email protected]

www.rossallen.com

Independence, MO 64015

Graphic Designer

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Letter head

Envelope

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This a brochure made in the same style as my logo and has information about myself for those who are interested in hiring me and some examples of my work to let them know what I can do. I also put in some drawings to ad some variety in my skills.


Phone: (816) 223-7904

Email: [email protected]

Ross Allen

3104 Victoria LaneIndependence, MO 64015

Graphic Designer

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Ross AllenHello my name is Ross Allen and I specialize on Graphic Design. My specialty is page layout, web design, and logo design. I am also an animator if you are interested and have a skill in drawing. You can �nd examples of my work on this brochure. If you want to see more of my work go to www.rossallen.com. If you are interested in contacting me you can call me or send me an email.

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