Laser Engraving: When our instructor found out about a young boy with cancer who wanted to receive Christmas ornaments, our class enthusiastically designed and created individual personalized ornaments to send him. We then used the laser engraver to engrave and cut them. This was one of my designs for Brantley, who loved superheroes. The design…
Author: Sherry
ACC Rocks!
Layout: Our class created a publicity campaign centered around the popular rock painting activities taking place worldwide. I designed and printed flyers for various stages of the campaign, from conception and recruitment, evolving into informational and directional brochures. This design uses a stock photograph of rocks on a lake shore, and provides information about the…
Instructional Flyer
Layout: Our class created a publicity campaign centered around the popular rock painting activities taking place worldwide. I designed and printed flyers for various stages of the campaign, from conception and recruitment, evolving into informational and instructional brochures. This design contains photographs of rocks painted at Alamance Community College, along with screenshots of the ACC…
Ornament Sales
Layout: As an aid to Christmas ornament sales for our Visual Arts Club at ACC, I designed this flyer utilizing elements from our promotional poster designed by Julie Herron and Morgan Adams. I wanted to make the layout simple and easy to use for both advertisement and orders, and so gave the interior three sections…
Menu Design
Layout: In this menu design for a fictional Irish restaurant of my own creation I selected authentic Irish dishes, wrote descriptions, categorized them and placed photos of choice dishes throughout the menu. I wanted a gate-fold design on the front, with an original Celtic knot pattern which I designed. I chose black for the cover,…
HTML5/CSS3
Coding: In creating the original design for my personalized portfolio website, I chose cool colors with a simple four-block theme for each page. Each picture linked to the individual page or artwork represented, with brief descriptions of the subject. My information and resumé were included for views by potential employers. All designs and website coding…
Music Video
Videography — Believer: My own take on the music video of the song Believer by the popular band, Imagine Dragons, uses audio and video footage provided by the group for a music video design contest. While my work was not entered in the competition, I thoroughly enjoyed re-creating my own story behind the song. Believer by…
Sound Composition
Videography — Guardians of the Galaxy: Tasked with finding my own sound effects and music using the footage from a popular movie trailer; all sound was added by me, and none was used from the original trailer. Selecting and aligning the sounds with the video was surprisingly challenging, and a creative experience. Edited sound remix of the trailer…
Promotional Video
Videography — ACC Horticulture Technology: As the head of the videography team I interviewed Alamance Community College’s Horticulture Department and shot B-roll footage with my team members Jon Lujan, Michele Foster and Savannah Wright. We chose exterior locations for the interviews to emphasize the department’s hands-on learning techniques. The resulting footage was edited together by Justin…
Coming Soon!
Firefly Perspective Design Portfolio A portfolio website created by Sherry Grissino to display her graphic design portfolio. Stay tuned for future updates!