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Cassie Thomas
Email: Cassiet76@yahoo.com
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Education
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                        August 1996 — March 1999
                        Louisiana Tech University; Ruston, LA
                        Bachelors of Fine Arts; Graphic Design

                        August 1994 — May 1996
                        Delgado Community College

 
Experience
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                        June 1999 — Freelance designing for Daisy Hirsch Enterprises,INC.,
                        Designed T-shirts, flyers, banners, and posters for Eisenhower
                        Elementary School, St. Thomas Aquinas Church,
                        Holy Spirit Church Youth Group.
                        Graphic Design Classes — Illustration, Printing Production,
                                                                  Ad Campaign, Corporate Identity,
                                                                  Color & Black/White Photography.
                        March 2000 — New Orleans Metropolitian Conventions & Visitors
                                                Bureau. Assistant to the staff for various incoming
                                                conventions.
Software
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                        Quark X-Press, Photoshop, Clarisworks, Illustrator, Freehand,
                        Fractal Painter, and Galaxy

Awards
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                         1996 — 1999 Recipient of Dollars for Scholars Scholarship to Delgado
                         Community College and Louisiana Tech University.
 

My Portfolio
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Freelance Work
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Client: Orleans Parish School Board
Goal:  a T-Shirt for the summer project "EX-l"
Project: Design a shirt that expresses the hard work and learing of the students of Orleans Parish summer program.  Work with clip art the client wants.
Completed Project: Rework the clip art the client wants used to create a logo for the program.  75 T-Shirts printed.

 
 

Client: Orleans Parish School Board
Goal: Design a folder (4 sided) 2 color  printing for Live Oak Middle School. Must have school rules and
regulations.
Project: Type information provided from client on to the folders. Design a cover for the school using their mascot.
Completed Project: Typeset, layout, and design the entire folder for client. 1200 Folders printed in 2 color process.

 

                    Live Oak Middle School Folder Cover

                                  Inside of Live Oak Folder
 

Client: Orleans Parish School Board
Goal: Design a folder (4 sided) 3 color printing for Carver High School.  Must have school rules and
regulations.
Project: Type information provided from client on to the folders.  Design a cover for the school using their mascot. "As long as the students can read it." quote from client about the font size (6 pt) and the amount of information.
Completed Project: Typeset, layout, and design the entire folder for client. 800 Folders printed in 3 color process.

 

                           Carver High School folder cover

                           Inside of Carver folder
 

Class Work Descriptions
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Ad Campaign
Client: Napa Valley
Goal: Maintain tourism throughout the Napa Valley, not just the wine country.
Project: "The Four Seasons of Napa Valley." Series of posters, four full-color brochures each one
featuring a season of Napa Valley.
Completed Project: Series of 4-full color posters and brochures each one for a season of Napa Valley. Researched the area, found many photographs to include in the brochures.

                           Pictures to be posted at a later date.
 

Client: Betsy Ross Textiles
Goal: All America Theme promoting the clothing line.
Project: Design a new logo, stationary, business card and shirt tag for the company.
Completed Project: Designed a new logo using 3 colors — red, white and blue. The colors are carried out in every item (business card...etc.) for the company.

 
 
 

Business Card is 2 sided, the left side is the top of the card, put together there is a flap that reveals the
address.


 
 
 

Client: Art Graphics
Goal: New stationary for an up and coming company.
Project: Design a new logo and envelope for the business.
Completed Project: Designed new staionary and envelope for the company that makes various size
signs.


 

                    Logo on the envelope and stationary

Photography
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Black and white


 

Color

 
 

Photoshop
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       1 of 8 in a series using the various tools of Photoshop.

Illustration
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Water color Fish

 

Mixed media Fish

 

Miscellaneous class projects
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