Graphic Design

Kingston Whig Newspaper Ad Contest

Newspaper ad for James Reid Furniture.

Graphic Designer: Hayley Dykins.

As a Grade 11 assignment in my Communications Technology class, we were given a local business and asked to make a Newspaper Ad from scratch. I was given James Reid Furniture. The Ads were submitted to the owners of each business and 1st, 2nd and 3rd place were chosen and published in the local Whig Standard Newspaper. My Design placed Second overall.
The Design idea for my Newspaper Ad was to propose that there was something missing from your home and to offer James Reid Furniture as the place to look to fill what was missing. I went to the closest James Reid Furniture store to take photos. I chose this photo and decided to remove the chair to exemplify that something was missing. I chose to use the colour red because it is very eye catching

Promotional Basketball Posters

Graphics and Photography by

Hayley Dykins

In a mixture of Graphic design and Photography, we were each assigned a junior and senior girl to create a basketball poster promoting them during the annual PH classic held at our school. We first needed to find an appropriate pose for our player, and ask them to do said pose in the studio. We them took the photo of our player; we were marked on the ability to replicate the pose and also the proper focus as we used manual focusing for this project. We then close cropped the photo in photo shop to remove the original background and placed the player in the pre-designed template, and rearranged the logos to suit the photo.

The poster contains the schools logo, crest and the logo of the PH classic. The posters are green and silver to represents the schools colours. To differentiate between senior and junior players the green and gray banner and backgrounds have been switched. The poster also promotes the schools sports website for more information on sports in our school community.

Muse Art

Muse Poster
"Eternal Bonds"

Photography and Layout by
Hayley Dykins

Every year as a tribute to the student production being performed the arts students are asked to provide art for an art show based on the theme of the play. This year’s performance was The Phantom of the Opera, and our Communications Technology class was asked to produce a piece for the show as well. Being based on The Phantom of the Opera, the theme was our Muse. We were told to think of what our Muse was and do research on the internet to come up with an idea that allowed to create a piece of art that had a minimum of ten layers.

I chose my family as my muse, as my inspiration. And after finding a tutorial on the internet of how to use photo shop to create a weaving illusion to a single photo, I decided to try the effect using ten individual strips of photographs of my family’s faces. Each of the strips have their own effect on them, individualizing them, the idea was to weave our faces together to create a new face, to symbolize we are all unique individuals, yet when brought together we are a close knit family. Two other elements brought to this photo was my recently deceased grandmother painting used as the background to symbolize our families background and its importance to us, also, the word family is repeated underneath the piece, to represent that we are family, and how deep set that bond is.