Kylie woods Portfolio by Kylie Woods

Kylie Woods’ Creative Portfolio

I have always been a creative and energetic person with a passion for anything creative and hands-on. My journey began in Bunbury, Australia and I was raised in Dunedin, New Zealand.

I have always been interested in painting, photography and drawing but as my skill set has developed over the years I am also very passionate about graphic design, print outcomes, animation, and web design.

I run my social media through Instagram where I sell my skateboards, paintings and clay miniatures.

I have a Bachelor of Design Communication and a wide range of graphic design skills with experience in; Print, Illustration, Typography, Social Media, Photography, Web Design, and Film/video editing. I have excellent organisational and communication skills. I keep a positive and creative attitude in everything I do as well as having proficient computer skills in the Adobe creative programs such as; Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign as well as Word and PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook.

Over the last four years, I have been doing freelance design for a wide range of clients including illustration, custom painting, videography, photography and working with clay to make custom miniatures.

Illustrations published in issue 3, “Wild West” Circular Publishing.

These two pieces are both hand-drawn and digitalised in illustrator

for the Wild West them i focused on the hilly dessert landscape and common dessert plants.

MADE

‘MADE’ is an in-house printed publication for the Otago Polytechnic School of Design. MADE visually showcases student- and staff-created design projects in a publication format to be given out at tertiary open days at the Otago Polytechnic to inform interested individuals and prospective students about what our School of Design offers students.

I was the main designer, editorial designer, photographer, copywriter, interviewer and printer throughout issue two MADE publication project.

Photos taken and logo designed for a local Dunedin run candle business Candle Addction.

photography

taken for a local Dunedin run Mediterranean Store & Takeaway Olive Branch.

Photos

olive branch

Social media

Kamau Taurua Quarantine Island

Kamau Taurua Quarabtine island is a public Recreation Reserve and an Hostoric Area

This is the social media content for Kamau Taurua Quarantine Island, for which I and five other group members at Otago Polytechnic designed and developed a brand strategy. These group members include Libby Guthrie, Rosa Nevison, Kiritea Cook-Green, Sarah Baines, and Nick Alexandra.

I worked with two of the group members to create a guerilla marketing campaign. The idea was to bring the island to the city so that more local visitors would be educated about it and what it offers our local community. I was lucky enough to visit the island for a day and take photos for my social media campaign.

I was also given the role of designing a pamphlet to be given out to visitors when they arrive on the island as well as free advertising when distributed to public areas. The pamphlet explains what activities are offered on the island and includes a map that helps guide you around the best sites on the island.

Digital illustrated T-shirt designs designed in 2021 for Past Nights, a Queenstown based clothing band in New Zealand.

My Client asked me to mix the idea of escapism and all the unpleasant things I visually create in my mind when i close my eyes. .

Escapism is the tendency to seek distraction and relief from unpleasant realities, especially by seeking entertainment or engaging in fantasy.

“virtual reality offers a form of escapism”

A Dove Flies around Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature

Ōtepoti continues to support Lviv and Odessa Cities of Literature and the people of Ukraine with a tribute to Ukrainian folk artist Maria Prymachenko and her famous painting ‘A Dove Has Spread Her Wings and Asks for Peace’ (1982). Prymachenko came to the attention of Picasso in 1937 when he is famously quoted as saying, ‘I bow down before the artistic miracle of this brilliant Ukrainian.’

Hanging in the foyer of Dunedin Public Libraries City Branch, this larger-thanlife replica was created as a fundraiser for ReliefAid Ukraine by artists Nick Guilford, Penelope Smith and Kylie Woods of Ōtepoti. The ‘action art’, which was completed in one day on 10 July, was first displayed in the Ukrainian Hub in the Golden Centre and will eventually fly from City Library to Holy Name Church.

The time lapse video showing the production of the replica will be added to the suite of short films featuring breathtaking Ukrainian landscapes and towns that was generously gifted to Ōtepoti by Lviv UNESCO City of Literature.

https://www.cityofliterature.co.nz/