The Official Website of Amanda Theiler
Recent Design Work
Graphic Design
The works shown here are selected samples that I have worked on for student groups, class projects, and as personal projects. If you are interested in having me do any graphic design work for you please let me know. If you have any questions or would like to contact me, please send me an email at amandaATamandano2.com (be sure to replace AT with @) and I will get back to you within three days.
Skills
Adobe Dreamweaver
Adobe Flash
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
PJ Smoothies Posters
Date: March 2009
Client: DandAD Graphic Design Competition
Every year in the UK there is the D and AD Graphic Design competition open to college students from around the world. As part of our graphic design class, we had to create a submission for the contest. This year, the competition was creating an ad campaign for PJ Smoothies, a former major smoothie company in the UK. I chose to use an idea of taking famous UK landmarks and incorporating a bottle of PJ Smoothies into the design. To view all three of the posters, click on the one below to open up the gallery.
Graduation Announcements
Date: January 2009
Client: Self Project
These postcard graduation announcements were made to send out to family and friends announcing my graduation this coming May. I wanted them to be something bright and fun rather than the standard announcement. I used various images related to my major (such as the computers) and to Bradley University (the statue of Lydia Moss Bradley and others) to create this layered collage. Lydia Moss Bradley statue photo by Shaun Greiner.
MHAIV Brochure
Date: November 2008
Client: MHAIV
This brochure was created for the Mental Health Association of Illinois Valley for their program Youth Mental Health Matters. The project was one of our assignments for Editorial Design class for an actual client. I used only three basic colors for the piece due to the fact that they had a limited budget for printing. I decided to stick to an illustrated look for the brochure to cater to the young audience. For more images, click on the image below to view more.
Pop Up Book
Date: October 2008
Client: Editorial Design Class Project
This project focused on paper engineering and creating pop-up books. The assignment was to create a few spreads from a paper engineered book which would promote the US to people outside of the country. The book was supposed to focus on debunking foreign stereotypes of America and encouraging others to come visit. The three spreads I created were for baseball, New York City, and Hollywood.
For the baseball spread, I used Yankee Stadium with Derek Jeter and placed the text on the baseball where the threads were supposed to be. The myth I used for this was that baseball is known as "America's Favorite Pasttime", although it is no longer the number one sport in the United States.
The Hollywood spread was a collage of the Hollywood sign, Gorman's Chinese Theatre, a movie star on the red carpet, and a series of stars like those on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. Underneath the stars were facts about Hollywood, such as that most major movies studios are no longer in Hollywood and that manufacturing is actually a larger industry there than film making.
For the New York City spread I created a spread of Times Square which I created by compositing two separate images of Times Square together and then adding a taxi. The stereotype for this piece was that New Yorkers are loud and obnoxious. I countered this with the fact that there is a lot to do when visiting New York and you can experience a variety of things there. The stereotype was releaved when the user pulls on a pull tab to change the text displayed on the top of the cab sign. To view more images of the spreads and the cover, click on the image below.
Apocalyptica Poster
Date: August 2008
Client: Self Project
This poster was made while I was trying to brush up on my Adobe Illustrator skills over the summer before school started again. I decided to make a fake promotional concert poster for the band Apocalyptica, which is a Finnish cello-based rock band that began as three classically trained cellists who played covers of Metallica songs. I wanted the poster to reflect the dark but beautiful sound of their music so I chose to use the colors black and purple. I added a concrete texture in the background to give it a look kind of like crushed velvet. I used a font similar to their band font and then added a glow to it to make it "pop". The cello and the roses around it were found on sxc.hu Stock Photos and then cut out in Photoshop and assembled and altered in Illustrator. To see the full poster, click on the image.
A Celebration of Numbers in Movies
Date: May 2008
Client: Graphic Design Class for Peoria Film Festival
For this assignment, I had to make posters and a special invitation package for a fake movie festival with a theme of numbers in movies. Below is a picture of the full completed package. To learn more and see more photos of the project, click on the image below.
Peoria Chiefs Calendar in style of David Hockney
Date: March 2008
Client: Graphic Design Class for Peoria Chiefs Baseball Team
As part of one of my Graphic Design classes we were assigned a local company which we had to create several promotional calendar designs for in the style of a famous artist. I was assigned to the Peoria Chiefs Baseball team and had to emulate the style of British artist David Hockney. I decided to use Hockney's collage style for the project and obtained several photos of the Chiefs which I cut up and collaged together to get the distorted effect achieved in Hockney's works. For the last design, I used his grid style collage. To view larger versions of the images, click on the thumbnails below.
Graphic Design Photoshop Exercises
Date: January 2008
Client: Graphic Design Class
These were done for a Graphic Design assignment using Photoshop. The first photo is a group of type figures I did of The Beatles. The goal for this part of the assignment was to make people or other objects out of type. The next several photos are barcode redesigns. The numbers beneath stand for various statistics related to recycling coffee cups, lives lost to war, and gallons of water added to the oceans yearly due to global warming.
