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Although this page is currently under construction, you can view it now using either a desktop or tablet device.

Watercolor palm tree in a round frame: This brand identity artwork represents Coconut BAM Design and Productions.

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Palm tree fronds: This brand identity photograph represents Coconut BAM Design and Productions.

ChileUP!

Branding, Logo, Print & Web Designs
Student Project

Adobe’s Photoshop and Illustrator restaurant logo design: ChileUP! Southwestern Style.

Select Image to Enlarge ChileUP! Logo Design

Website Home page design: ChileUP! Southwestern Style, Get Your Taste Buds Ready! You’ll Love Our Southwestern Style.

ChileUP! Website Home Page
Select Image to Visit Very Old, Unfinished Site
View on Only a Desktop Computer

My ChileUP! Southwestern Style website was a love-hate, love-hate, love-it-now experience! This old, fledgling student design was built in 2017 with Bootstrap 3. It has dated, inexperienced coding and broken font links. I had a hard time then connecting with the very busy course instructor for assistance, which was extremely frustrating. However, I was able to connect with a web developer, who graciously helped me understand the coding obstacles getting in the way of my responsive ChileUP! web design.

 

While debating whether or not to include this site in this portfolio, I decided why not! It shows my design choices that kind of work for a desktop device and my tenacity. Although it absolutely isn't ready for desktop, tablet or mobile use, it’s still one of my favorite designs.

 

Please excuse these issues and enjoy with me my resilient start as a website designer.

Trifold menu design front side: ChileUP! Southwestern Style, Get Your Taste Buds Ready! We’re Ready for You and Your Buds!

ChileUP! Trifold Menu — Select Images to Enlarge Designs
Layout Changed for Digital Presentation

Trifold menu design back: ChileUP! Southwestern Style. Salads, Tacos, Tortas & Burgers, ChileUp! Plates, Grilled, Beverages.
Standard business card with contact information: ChileUP! Southwestern Style, Get Your Taste Buds Ready!

ChileUP! Business Card — Select Image to Enlarge Design
Layout Changed for Digital Presentation

Design Notes | Student Project | Print and Web

The ChileUP! Southwestern Style practicum assessments were from both my first and second online courses at Hodges University — Introduction to Graphic Design and Introduction to Web Design. These project creations — original logo, six-page menu, business card and responsive website — were also fun and helped me develop life-long design and editing skills.

 

However, the website created with Bootstrap 3 gave me quite a few learning opportunities. Bootstrap is a framework that makes it easier for web designers to create responsive sites. Responsive websites automatically resize to fit many different devices (e.g., desktops, tablets, mobile phones and so on) and are essential for appealing, user-friendly designs.

My ChileUP! Southwestern Style website was a love-hate, love-hate, love-it-now experience! I’m thankful for the website design challenges because I developed a much better relationship with Bootstrap. I was also grateful for being able to network then with a web developer, who helped me understand the coding obstacles getting in the way of my responsive ChileUP! web designs.

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The website in its current state hasn't had any attention since 2017. There are broken font links, coding that is out of date and coding issues from my novice designs. Please excuse these issues and celebrate with me my start as a web designer. The design choices in this site are still some of my favorites.

Examples of my original ChileUP! Southwestern Style logo, website, menu and business card are above. I changed the green color of the Southwestern Style text for this portfolio, so you'll see two different greens in these examples. 

 

I also changed the six-page, tri-fold layout of the ChileUP! menu page arrangement to make it easier to view in this presentation.

Technical requirements from the practicum assessments are summarized below if you’re interested in comparing the assessed skills with my designs.

Design Challenge Task:
For a hip, new restaurant in town that serves Southwestern food, think of a name for this new restaurant. Design an original logo and wordmark, six-page menu, business card and responsive website to attract customers. The correlated designs will create branding and visually memorable restaurant identity.

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Core Target Market:
Families in upper-middle class neighborhoods in suburban areas

Deliverables:

  • Six-Page Menu — 5.5" x 17" per page, 300 ppi resolution

  • Business Card — 3.25" x 2", 300 ppi resolution

  • Responsive Website — at least six pages


Adobe Creative Cloud Digital Design Software:

  • Photoshop 2017

  • Illustrator 2017

  • InDesign 2017

  • Dreamweaver 2017

  • Bootstrap Version 3.3.7


Logo and Wordmark Requirements
Must be an original logo or wordmark used for the purposes of identification and branding the restaurant

Six-Page Menu Requirements
Cover:

  • Original composite image cover with at least three photos

  • Decorative font with applied layer effects for name of the restaurant

  • Original restaurant logo or wordmark

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Six-Page Menu Requirements (continued)
Four Interior Pages:

  • Based on a single master page with a running header and page numbers

  • Four stylistically similar icons for the four main sections of the menu — appetizers, main dishes, drinks and desserts

  • At least two photos per page

  • At least four menu items per section with description and price, formatted using paragraph styles


Back Cover:

  • Must include physical address and online address of the restaurant

  • Must include the logo or wordmark

  • Must include an image


Other:

  • At least one image must include text wrap

  • Must include character styles applied to at least two words

 

Business Card Requirements
Use any of the above elements to create a business card for this restaurant

Responsive Website Requirements

  • At least a six-page responsive website with Bootstrap Version 3 CSS styling

  • Responsive resizing for desktop, tablet and mobile devices

  • Pages include Home, About, Contact and at least three choices (Menus, Request Pick Up or Delivery, Entertainment, Chefs’ Demos and Lunch Menu)

  • Include images, web fonts, at least one image slider or carousel, form, video(s), live map, live calendar, external links, social media icons with links and other appropriate elements


Student Project Disclaimer:

  • This student project is the result of one or more practicum assessments while I was a Hodges University UPOWER student in Naples, Florida, from July 2017 to January 2018 (including a several-week Hurricane Irma break). UPOWER is a self-paced, online subscription program. The technical requirements noted above, which can be used to compare the assessed skills with my designs, are from this time period.

  • Based on the requirements for these practicum assessments, I developed the ChileUP! projects for the sole purpose of achieving academic objectives. They are not for commercial use. 

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Copyright Attributions:

Looking up to the fronds of a palm tree: This is the primary brand identity photograph for Coconut BAM Design and Productions.
Versatility is my strength and passion.
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