Josh Hawkinson, Spring 24

Portfolio,Designing your Brand

Spring 2024

HAWK Josh Hawkinson

Professor. Pottgen

Who Am I?

Josh Hawkinson

HAWK

I am a Graphic Designer & Photographer. I am from Korea and was raised in Missouri. I graduated from Grand Canyon University with a B.A. in Graphic Design & Advertising with a minor in Photography.

I started my journey of being a designer back in middle school/ high school by being a photographer first then wanting to develop my photo editing skills more which led me to want to learn and progress into graphic design. I love learning how things are made and created and it inspires me to try to create new things.

My dream career is to open up my own Digital Media & Advertising business and be able to help small businesses grow. I love to help people and I love working with photography and editing.

I try my best to keep learning new ways to improve my skills to work more officiant, faster but still in a creative way, and be able to multitask different problems while problem-solving on different projects I work on.

PORTFOLIO

HAWK

Nice Ice

Nice Ice logo Design

For this project, I had to create a new logo for an ice cream company, but I couldn’t use any ice cream and cones for the design. So I designed some logos that contained ice cubes and made it look like it was snowing for the logo so people could get a hint of the company. Starting with some thumbnails, moving on to roughs until I found some logos I liked then placed them on some trucks to see what they would look like, then finally mocked up the truck.

nice ice

menu

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Extreme For this project, I made a logo for a chili sauce company that was also going to be advertised in a trade show so not only I had to make the logo for the company, but I also had to make some merchandise for the company as well.

Sam’s Chili Sauce

Sam’s Chili Sauce logo Design

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CULT Botanical

CULT Botanical For this project, I made social media posts for this company as well as some print ads. So I decided to use Instagram as the main social platform and as for print I went with billboards because they stand out way more than any other print ad I feel like.

The Sparklebar

The Sparklebar

This company is a new company that needed more ways to be advertised. I went with social media to promote and advertise this company. I wanted to show the employees here as well as the interior of what it looks like.

Kind of like a Grand Opening/ Launch for this place being open

Portraits

These were some portraits and headshots I took of some people because they needed them for either school or work. But also I just did them for fun as well because I love taking portraits and getting to work with different lighting and shadows. I also get to work with different backgrounds too because I think background can tell the story of photos.

Action

I try to capture people and things at the moment so people can imagine what it’s like to be in that setting and can picture in their minds what it would be like if they were there.

Lifestyle

Like the action photography I had previously shown, I wanted to capture sorta a “Day in the Life” with different students on campus.

Landscape

Landscape is one of my favorite things to capture because you get to see all the places you’ve been, really see what nature looks like, how beautiful the world is. I love the challenge of how I can make this look different form other landscape photos and uninque. I love that challenge with landscape photography.

Macro

Macro photography is also one of my favorites to do. I love getting to see the little things in stuff. Seeing small details in things I think gets overseen a lot and I want people to see the small things in life as well rather than just the big picture. The details people tend to miss I want to show them to people

HAWK