Graphic Design

Portfolio
Aaron Stigile
This design is an example of a hypothetical brand campaign
for U.S. Soccer. It took a free image (via Unsplash) and ap-
plied different text features, shapes, and logos and through
Adobe Illustrator. These are the same designs meant for different formats, with
one being for mobile and one for an Instagram post.

Brand Marketing: Brand Marketing:

U.S. Soccer U.S. Soccer: Format-
 Podcast Formatting:
Working Class History
I used Adobe Photoshop and Spotify templates to format
the hypothetical podcast cover onto Spotify.

I made a hypothetical podcast episode cover for Working

Class History. I utilized Adobe Photoshop for this graphic
and edited free photos of different figures to look like scrap-
book style cutouts on a piece of old and wrinkled paper.

Podcast Cover:
Working Class History
 Web Design:
Political Campaign Personal Logo Design

This web design ut-

lized aspects of
Adobe Illustrator and
Adobe Photoshop
to create a
campaign logo, web-
site menu, imagery,
and a themed cam- For my professional logo, I used Adobe Illus-
paign website. trator to create a design meant to be modeled
after the letters ‘A’ and ‘S’ on the keyboard, as
Each image was free those are my initials.
and chosen to
represent a theoretical
Idaho political It represents my journalism skills by showing
campaign. that while I specialize in writing specifically, I
can still take on different kinds of design.
Digital Business Card Business Card
My digital business card
design was made using
Adobe Illustrator and
Adobe Photoshop.

The social media logos

were colorized through
Photoshop, and the rest
of the design was made
through Adobe
Illustrator.
This more traditional version of my business card
Aspects of color theory includes my personal logo, built through Illustrator.
are also visible, as the
main colors present are The rest of the design, outside of the social media icons,
meant to not clash with are also made through Illustrator.
one another.
Different tools, such as the QR code tool, shape tool, and
The QR code adds more were used.
my contact info to the
phone of someone who
scans it.
 I also included techniques such as pull quotes, two
Magazine Article Layout separate fonts and photo captions.

My magazine article layout design used Adobe InDesign. Each of the pages are meant to create an easily readable,
I also used Adobe Illustrator to create the graphics de- flowing article while still giving room for the photos and
marcating the page numbers on the bottom corners of highlighting their quality.
each page.

Each of the photos are photos I took (besides of the

faded turf at the end, freely obtained via Unsplash), and
the article is an article I wrote, published on the AZ Big
Media website.
 Movie Poster Design
My movie poster was made using Adobe Photoshop. I also imported fonts
in order to create the typography at the bottom. Many Photoshop tech-
niques were used, including masks, blending and transparency. Each image
was obtained freely from Unsplash.
Infographic
The infographic was designed using Adobe Illustrator. I used multipe
features to develop icons and used the graph feature to make the various
graphs. Data was pulled from online sources.
 Magazine Cover Flat Design
I desiged this magazine cover with Adobe InDesign. Each of the stories This flat design was made entirely through Adobe Illustrator. Each of the
headlines are fictional headlines, and the iamge was pulled off of Unsplash elements in the design are shapes I made and built myself. I used tools
for free use. such as the shape tool and the gradient tool.
 Skills
Adobe Photoshop
- Using multiple layers
- Color Theory
- Masks
- Blending
- Photo Editing
- Podcast cover design

Adobe InDesign
- Magazine Layout
- Magazine Design
- Photo layout in magazines

Adobe Illustrator
- Shape design
- Web design
- Flat design
- Logo design
- Infographic design