Week 1 (EH): Completed CV and Business Card

During week 9 and first week of the holidays, I have been working on finalising the both the my 'Business Card' and 'CV' designs. Below are the Graphics I used to make both documents and some of the processes on how I came to the finished product.

I wanted to tie in the designs of the Business Card and CV to the pre-existing website which my mum helped me build while I was in college. The Site is currently being updated and should be finished, ready for the hand in date.

Business Card:

I took a few of the website graphics and added them initialy to the design of the business card. These Graphics included; the main title of the website 'Lightspeed's Art', a horizontal dividing bar and one of my illustrations done by me back in College.

Site Title:



Nothing was initially changed when adding this to either the CV or Business Card except for re-sizing the graphic accordingly.

Divide Bar:



Same for the 'Site Title' as stated above, this was only re-sized to fit the requiementss of the two documents.

Illustration:



Some reasonable editing was made to this illustration. I wanted to show a knowledge of graphic desgin software (Photoshop) comibined with my natural ability of producing illustrations. The effects made to this illustration were; using an emboss filter to make the image stand out from the rest of the page and then lowering the opacity to 40% so that the text over the top of the image can still be seen.

Finished Design:



Here is the finished Business Card design, with my contact details added in a 'Cetury Gothic' text font.

CV:

My CV was created in much the same way as my 'Business Card' was, with 'ADOBE Photoshop'. The only difference is that the final CV desgin is set out like a regular CV would be except with; website title graphic 'Lightspeed's Art', four divide bars instread of one and the same illustration set to 50% Opacity.

(The opacity was set to 50% as opposed to 40% like on the business card due to their being a white background instead of black so the emboss effect would show up better.)

Finished Desgin:



Here is the finished design of my CV layout with the relevant information displayed. I personally think the layout works very well and that the grapphics do indeed help in making both my CV and Busines Card more personalised.