1. Hi I’m Briana
I am a graphic designer who enjoys creating marketing materials
for small businesses.
I was born June 25, 1989 in Robbinsdale Minnesota. I attended high school in Princeton Minnesota
where I attended various computer classes and ended up falling in love with graphic design.
I recently attended the Art Insitute of Pittsuburgh Online where I graduated with an associates degree in
graphic design. I love every aspect of graphic design but I mainly specialize in marketing materials for
small businesses, creating invitations, and editing photographs for gifts or special occasions.
The following pieces within my portfolio are laid out specifically to showcase the work that I have
created in order from most relevant to relevant. It showcases skills in Photoshop, Illustrator, and
Indesign. The designs range from photo editing, business cards, typography, event announcements,
packaging design, and magazine spreads.
If you love my work please contact me, I would love to provide you with my services!
Email:Solbergbrie@gmail.com
Phone number: 763-688-5517
WELCOME
6. POSTERDESIGN
Concert Poster for Pierce the Veil’s
new hit Caraphernela
Design a poster for a musical event
using only typeface design
Typography
Created with InDesign.
7. Pierce the Veil: Burning It Down
Create a CD for a band I love.
Design and Technology
Created with InDesign, Illustrator and
Photoshop
CDDESIGN/MOCKUP
8. Album Release
Create a poster to market a new album
Design & Technology
Created using Indesign, Illustrator and
Photoshop
NEWALBUMPOSTER
13. fortune
One Dollar a Copy OCTOBER 1932 Ten Dollars a Year
Life of the American Soldier
Fortune: Life of The American Soldier
Create a magazine cover for an existing
magazine
History and Analysis of Design
Created using Illustator
MAGAZINECOVER
14. Alphonse MuchA TheATre
presenTs
The Moon And The sTArs
ocTober 17 AT 5:oopM
The Moon and Stars Production
Illustrates Art Nouveau
History and Analysis of Design
Created using Illustator
POSTERFORAPLAY
15. My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree
Toward heaven still,
And there's a barrel that I didn't fill
Beside it, and there may be two or three
Apples I didn't pick upon some bough.
But I am done with apple-picking now.
Essence of winter sleep is on the night,
The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.
I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight
I got from looking through a pane of glass
I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough
And held against the world of hoary grass.
It melted, and I let it fall and break.
But I was well
Upon my way to sleep before it fell,
And I could tell
What form my dreaming was about to take.
Magnified apples appear and disappear,
Stem end and blossom end,
And every fleck of russet showing clear.
My instep arch not only keeps the ache,
It keeps the pressure of a ladder-round.
I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend.
And I keep hearing from the cellar bin
The rumbling sound
Of load on load of apples coming in.
For I have had too much
Of apple-picking: I am overtired
Of the great harvest I myself desired.
There were ten thousand thousand fruit
to touch,
Cherish in hand, lift down, and not let
fall.
For all
That struck the earth,
No matter if not bruised or spiked with
stubble,
Went surely to the cider-apple heap
As of no worth.
One can see what will trouble
This sleep of mine, whatever sleep it is.
Were he not gone,
The woodchuck could say whether it's like his
Long sleep, as I describe its coming on,
Or just some human sleep.
Robert Frost“After Apple Picking”
PUBLICATIONDESIGN
Publication Design
Take a poem and add in vector
graphics that I created to relate
to the story
Created with Illustrator
17. The Big Banana & Mixed Fruit Company
“Our collection of fresh fruit never runs dry.”
The Big Banana & Mixed Fruit Company
Create an image using vector images for a fruit company
Digital Illustration
Created using Illustrator
COMPANYAD
18. Final Illustration and two page spread
The NotebookNicholas Sparks Chapter 6
They sat in the middle of a small lake fed by the
waters of Brices Creek. It wasn’t large, maybe a
hundred yards across, and she was surprised at
how invisible it had been just moments before. It
was spectacular.
Tundra swan and Canada geese literally
surrounded them. Thousands of them. Birds
she couldn’t see the water. From a
distance, the groups of
swans looked almost like
icebergs.
“it’s beautiful.”
They sat in silence for a long while, watching the birds.
Noah pointed out a group of chicks, recently
hatched, following a pack of geese near the shore,
struggling to keep up.
moved the canoe through the water. The birds
ignored them for the most part. The only ones that seemed
bothered were those forced to move when
the canoe approached them. Allie reached out to touch the
Noah took out the bread he’d brought in his bag and
handed it to Allie. She scattered it, favouring the
little ones, laughing and smiling as they swam in circles looking for
food.
They stayed until thunder boomed in the distance—faint hut
powerful—and both of them knew it was
time to leave. Noah paddled the canoe hack to the main creek.
She was still amazed by what she had seen.
“Noah, what are they doing here?”
“I don’t know. I know the swans from up north migrate to Lake
Matamuskeet every winter, hut I guess
they came here this time. I don’t know why. Maybe the early
blizzard had something to do with it.
back, though. They’re driven by instinct,
and this isn’t their place. Some of the geese may winter here,
but the swans will go back to
Matamuskeet.”
Noah paddled hard as dark clouds rolled directly overhead.
Soon rain began to fall, a light
sprinkle at
-
der again. A little louder now. Maybe six
or seven miles away. More rain as Noah began to paddle even
harder, his muscles tightening with every
stroke.
Thicker drops now, falling hard.
Noah rowing...
getting wet… cursing
to himself ... losing to
Mother
Nature.
Allie watched the rain fall diagonally
from the sky as it rode on westerly winds
that
whistled over the
trees. The sky
darkened a little more. She leaned her head back for a
moment to let it hit her face.
MAGAZINESPREAD
The Notebook
Create a two page spread for a magazine using my favorite story.
Digital Illustration
Created using Indesign
19. It was the year 1692 in
Cradley, Worcestershire, the
historical English type founder,
William Caslon was born. Before
William Caslon made his impact on
the world with his famous type face
he was an apprentice to an engrav-
er of gun locks and barrels. When
Caslon reached the age of 24 he
opened up his own engraving shop,
creating tools for bookbinders and
silver chasers.
William
Caslon caught
his big break
when his work
was noticed by
a man named
John Watts.
Caslon worked
for Watts by
cutting type
punches at
various presses
throughout London. In 1720
William Caslon created the English
Arabic typeface that was used for
the New
Testament in Arabic.
In the year 1722 William
Caslon met William Bowyer, a
printer. Caslon had cut roman,
italic, and Hebrew typefaces for
Bowyer.
The roman typeface that he cut for
Bowyer was not used until the year
1726. This typeface later on be-
came known as the Caslon. William
Caslon’s typeface’s became very
successful throughout England.
Shortly after the rise of
Caslon’s typefaces he received
loans and trade that were sufficient
enough to give him the opportunity
to set up his own type foundry.
In 1734 William Caslon’s first
specimen sheet was issued. The
specimen sheet had 14 different
sizes of his roman and italic types.
William Caslon’s typefaces
began to spread throughout Europe
and eventually to the American
colonies. Caslon’s typefaces were
so popular that one of his fonts was
used to print the most important
documents known today,
the Declaration of Independence.
William Caslon died on the
23rd of January 1766 in Bethnal
Green, London. Despite his death
Caslon still lives on through the
Typography community, the fa-
mous Caslon typeface is amongst
the most popular typeface known
today.
Continued on page 3
“The
Caslon
typeface
remains one
of the most
popular of
all time.”
-Http://www.typographia.org
William CaslonThe journey to his success
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William Carlson
Create a two page spread for a magazine.
History and Analysis of Design
Created using Illustator
MAGAZINESPREAD
