Kate Shepherd
Kate Shepherd t Graphic Designer
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<strong>Kate</strong> <strong>Shepherd</strong><br />
t<br />
Graphic Designer
Contents<br />
News Design 3-8<br />
Feature Design 9-12<br />
Layout and section Design 13-17<br />
Graphics 18-21<br />
Logos 22<br />
Online and web based 23-25<br />
Identity 26-27<br />
Marketing 28-31<br />
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News front pages<br />
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News front pages<br />
The tragedy of the MH17 downing was felt hard in the<br />
Illawarra because an Albion Park couple was travelling on the<br />
flight.<br />
I was working the afternoon the plane came down and in the<br />
newsroom when we heard a local couple was on the flight.<br />
While a reporter was able to interview a relative of the couple<br />
before deadline we weren’t able to get a photo in time.<br />
For the first front page we resorted to using<br />
an image of the wreckage. It was indicative of<br />
the enormity of the tragedy and we tied in the<br />
local connection with the headline.<br />
Over the weekend, it was determined just<br />
how many Australians were on the flight.<br />
For the second front page, I decided on a<br />
concept of running photos and names of all the<br />
Australians who were on the flight. This was<br />
an enormous task of collating all the photos<br />
and determining whether they were the right<br />
photos for the right names. I was also able to<br />
use the photo of the local couple.<br />
A couple of weeks later a memorial service was held in Albion<br />
Park. The grief on the faces in the photo says it all. For this<br />
front page, pictured left, I suggested a clean page where the<br />
photo is the focal point.<br />
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News front pages<br />
This was a story that needed to be told but was extremely<br />
difficult to illustrate. Due to legalities we weren’t able to use<br />
an image of anyone who could be identified. A few concepts<br />
I came up with was using the back of a child on a beach or<br />
walking away, a dark silhouette of a child or of a crying child,<br />
either way it would have to be a stock image. I was able to<br />
find this dark evocative image of a child with a single tear<br />
running down her cheek.<br />
It was the perfect image to illustrate the story and we were<br />
lucky enough to have our front page appear on a website<br />
called Newseum. It was featured in the top 10 front pages for<br />
kids in the news.<br />
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News front pages<br />
The plan for the Flinders St site has been very controversial.<br />
When the plan was released it was marketed with this artist<br />
impression on a postcard with ‘Welcome to the Gong’ text on<br />
it sitting on a pile of other letters.<br />
I suggested playing on the postal term ‘return to sender’ as a<br />
stamp on the original postcard with the original words crossed<br />
out. It was then etched out of it’s original background and<br />
placed on a plain background.<br />
For the web version of the story I used similar artwork in it’s<br />
original context but with the ‘return to sender stamp’<br />
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News front pages<br />
For a series of stories on flood zones and insurance premiums,<br />
I was given the brief of working on front using a flood level<br />
with some bills floating in water. I decided on adding the<br />
element of paper boats and placing the insurance bills on the<br />
boats.<br />
From this I also created a web image to use with the online<br />
version of the story.<br />
I also created a logo for the series using a drain with water<br />
running out as suggested.<br />
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News front pages<br />
Feathered<br />
friend<br />
released<br />
PAGE 3<br />
Whooping<br />
cough hits<br />
Illawarra<br />
PAGE 6<br />
NSW have<br />
a point<br />
to prove<br />
SPORT<br />
SINCE 1855<br />
Thursday, June 11, 2015<br />
$1.40 (incl GST)<br />
BlueScope reveals option to shut down steelmaking<br />
Picture: KIRK GILMOUR<br />
DEATH BY<br />
1000 CUTS?<br />
STEEL manufacturing will remain<br />
in the Illawarra, at least in the<br />
short term, but BlueScope says it<br />
needs to shave millions of dollars<br />
in annual costs to keep its Port<br />
Kembla operations afloat.<br />
The company revealed on<br />
It would devastate<br />
this region. It would<br />
kill off the Illawarra.<br />
All due respect to<br />
other industries, but<br />
the Illawarra would<br />
not recover.<br />
- AWU official<br />
Wayne Phillips<br />
Wednesday it was aiming to save<br />
around $50 a tonne – about 10<br />
per cent – on its steel production<br />
costs, with options including<br />
importing hot rolled coil rather<br />
than manufacturing it on site.<br />
Refuting earlier reports that<br />
Our costs of<br />
manufacturing steel<br />
are too high and we<br />
are seeking a gamechanging<br />
approach<br />
that will significantly<br />
reduce costs.<br />
- Michael Reay, BlueScope<br />
corporate affairs manager<br />
Port Kembla operations would<br />
cease by 2017, the company<br />
stressed ‘‘no such decision has<br />
been made’’, but AWU branch<br />
secretary Wayne Phillips said the<br />
union feared another mass layoff<br />
of workers.<br />
Meantime, the region’s<br />
politicians expressed shock at<br />
the reports of job losses.<br />
‘‘Steelmaking at Port Kembla<br />
is a part of our history. Whenever<br />
we see speculation like this<br />
we know that it is very difficult<br />
This is a bombshell for<br />
the Illawarra and it is<br />
crucial that BlueScope<br />
management comes<br />
clean as a matter of<br />
urgency on precisely<br />
what its intentions are.<br />
- Shellharbour MP<br />
Anna Watson<br />
not just on the families but also<br />
the associated businesses<br />
who rely on the steelmaking at<br />
BlueScope,’’ Keira MP Ryan Park<br />
said.<br />
REPORTS PAGES 4-5<br />
GIRL SURVIVES<br />
HIT AND RUN<br />
Warilla drama: P3<br />
SINCE 1855<br />
Matt Brown<br />
Resigned<br />
in disgrace<br />
David<br />
Campbell<br />
RESIGNED<br />
Thursday, April 16, 2015<br />
An international drug ring.<br />
A Fairy Meadow pilot with cancer.<br />
A bad plan to leave his family secure.<br />
Paul McLeay<br />
Resigned in<br />
disgrace<br />
Eric<br />
Roozendaal<br />
Rarely seen<br />
Frizell to<br />
miss two<br />
games for<br />
high tackle<br />
SPORT<br />
Greg Pearce<br />
Sacked amid<br />
allegations<br />
After years of scandal, poor representation and<br />
no-shows, the Illawarra ministry is no more<br />
IN a case of life imitating art,<br />
an Illawarra man diagnosed<br />
with cancer turned to the<br />
murky underworld of drugs<br />
in a bid to secure his family’s<br />
future.<br />
Channelling Walter White,<br />
the anti-hero from the wildly<br />
popular television series<br />
Breaking Bad, Fairy Meadow<br />
pilot Bernhard Stevermuer<br />
became embroiled in an<br />
TODAY Possible shower 25 o TOMORROW Showers 21 o SATURDAY Showers 25 o TV - Page 27<br />
$1.40 (incl GST)<br />
John Ajaka<br />
Dumped<br />
BREAKING<br />
real BAD<br />
international drug trafficking businesses from the<br />
ring after learning he had Wollongong Aerial Patrol.<br />
cancer for the second time. The group’s elaborate ruse<br />
For two years he helped culminated in a dramatic<br />
a former neighbour and his police raid on one of<br />
associate launder dirty money Stevermuer’s planes at Albion<br />
by purchasing aircraft from Park airport last July.<br />
the United States, Malaysia Stevermuer’s arrest was<br />
and Cambodia through his part of a large-scale police<br />
company, Always Airborne. operation which busted a<br />
At one stage the group $20 million drug ring.<br />
even tried to buy aviation FULL STORY: PAGE 5<br />
illawarramercury.com.au<br />
IMD 0001<br />
School’s P&C<br />
hits out at<br />
FACS plan<br />
PAGE 3<br />
Minister urges<br />
insurer to move<br />
on police compo<br />
PAGE 4<br />
NBL decision<br />
gives Hawks<br />
breathing space<br />
SPORT<br />
PARTY<br />
SINCE 1855<br />
Thursday, March 19, 2015<br />
JOKE<br />
$1.40 (incl GST)<br />
NO LAND TAX<br />
Jason Leto<br />
Keira<br />
Ahmed Elawaad<br />
Heathcote<br />
Carmel Pellegrini<br />
Kiama<br />
Noreen Colonelli<br />
Wollongong<br />
Hugo Morvillo<br />
Shellharbour<br />
Mystery vote<br />
TODAY Mostly sunny 26 o TOMORROW Showers 25 o<br />
Election<br />
puzzler:<br />
who are<br />
these<br />
people?<br />
WITH days to go until the state<br />
election, the Illawarra’s No Land Tax<br />
Party candidates remain a complete<br />
mystery – even to their own party<br />
leader.<br />
Elsewhere in the state, the party’s<br />
candidates include a topless model and<br />
a salsa dancer.<br />
In the five Illawarra electorates, one<br />
is a hair removal specialist, another is<br />
a builder (we think, it’s hard to be sure)<br />
and the remaining three are – who<br />
knows?<br />
Certainly, NLT party secretary Peter<br />
Jones doesn’t know, freely admitting to<br />
the Mercury: ‘‘I can’t recall who exactly<br />
are our candidates, so I may or may not<br />
have met many of them.’’<br />
The micro-party, which is fighting to<br />
abolish the tax levied on investment<br />
properties and holiday homes worth<br />
above a certain threshold, operates<br />
through its website and via email.<br />
Mr Jones said people who had joined<br />
the group had been asked to run as<br />
candidates.<br />
All Illawarra NLT candidates live in<br />
Sydney suburbs, not the electorate they<br />
are contesting.<br />
In Wollongong, Kiama and Heathcote,<br />
they have grabbed top spot on the<br />
ballot paper and will benefit from the<br />
donkey vote, despite their anonymity.<br />
FULL REPORT: Page 7<br />
TV - Page 18<br />
illawarramercury.com.au<br />
IMD 0001<br />
I have added these front pages to show how sometimes a little<br />
creative licence can be taken to illustrate stories.<br />
Most front pages consist of a picture, headline and story.<br />
While this is the most traditional way to design a front page<br />
sometimes it works to be a little more illustrative.<br />
PICTURE: ADAM McLEAN<br />
IMD 0001<br />
TODAY Possible shower 16 o TOMORROW Possible shower 18 o SATURDAY Clearing 18 o<br />
TV - P23<br />
illawarramercury.com.au<br />
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Feature design<br />
All of these Hawks covers<br />
have been modified to<br />
achieve the end results.<br />
The cover above had the<br />
background darkened to<br />
highlight the hand and the<br />
basket.<br />
The one in the top right was<br />
a studio shot which was<br />
etched out and placed on the<br />
black background with the<br />
work Hawks skewed to look<br />
like it’s on the floor<br />
In the right one a<br />
background was added to<br />
the etched players.<br />
The most recent, to the left had some shading added to the<br />
bottom to make the text stand out.<br />
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Feature design<br />
Food + Wine was a quarterly<br />
gloss magazine that was<br />
produced to showcase all the<br />
best produce, wines, recipes<br />
and trends in food.<br />
I was involved in the<br />
planning stage of this<br />
magazine and developed the<br />
identity, page design and<br />
styles.<br />
I also designed most issues.<br />
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Feature Design<br />
I have added this cover to my portfolio because of the styling.<br />
For this shoot I sourced the props, spray painted the tree<br />
myself and attended the shoot with the photographer to make<br />
sure we got the shot needed.<br />
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Feature Design<br />
Weekender is a weekly magazine.<br />
A new photograph of Mt Kembla was taken, but unlike the<br />
cover above where the photo tells the story, a landscape shot<br />
of the mountain was a little boring.<br />
I started searching through our archives for an older photo of<br />
Mt Kembla. While it doesn’t match up exactly I think that by<br />
overlaying it with the new photo it illustrates the disaster and<br />
remembering the past.<br />
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Layout and section design<br />
The faces of<br />
our Anzacs<br />
A tribute to those from the Illawarra<br />
who served their country<br />
Adventurous ‘twins’<br />
joined even in death<br />
‘‘Mat and I have not been parted once<br />
yet,’’ wrote Private James Dobing, in a<br />
letter to Private Matthew Tubman’s<br />
parents in Keiraville, not far from where<br />
his own family lived.<br />
‘‘And if ever they attempt to part us there<br />
will be a disturbance. We have even slept<br />
together since the cold weather set in at<br />
Liverpool, and we will take some<br />
separating now.<br />
‘‘The boys call us the twins, because where<br />
you see one you see the other, and our<br />
officers sometimes call us each other’s<br />
names.’’<br />
IMD A004<br />
James and Matthew were inseparable, whether underground in the<br />
mines or proudly enlisting to serve their country. A century later, their<br />
mateship and heroism still shines, writes ANGELA THOMPSON.<br />
It is not surprising that James Dobing and<br />
Matthew Tubman seemed, to their fellow<br />
soldiers, interchangeable.<br />
Both 163 centimetres tall, weighing<br />
56 kilograms and 54 kilograms respectively,<br />
the former Keiraville Public School students<br />
worked at the Mount Keira Colliery before<br />
they enlisted together into the 36th AIF<br />
battalion, excited by the prospect of<br />
adventure.<br />
They marched off to train in Sydney together<br />
on January 19, 1916, and embarked<br />
for the Western Front together in July, only<br />
to be seriously wounded, rushed to the<br />
same military hospital and dead within an<br />
hour of one another on January 22, 1917.<br />
It was the same shell that killed them.<br />
Back in the Illawarra, their deaths were<br />
recognised at the one service.<br />
They were buried at the same Cite<br />
Bonjean Military Cemetery, in Armentieres,<br />
and their names were listed in neighbouring<br />
panels on the Roll of Honour at the<br />
Australian War Memorial.<br />
Theirs is one of the most compelling<br />
stories of mateship to emerge from<br />
Wollongong’s war service history.<br />
Yet despite sharing so much, only<br />
Matthew’s name was included on Wollongong’s<br />
MacCabe Park Memorial Arch, with<br />
James’s inexplicably missing.<br />
Earlier this year Christopher Dobing, a<br />
descendant of James’s, began investigating<br />
the possibility of uniting the men one last<br />
time on the Wollongong monument.<br />
Mr Dobing does not know why James’s<br />
name was left off the arch, but says it is<br />
unlikely next of kin would have declined the<br />
listing, as they consented to other kinds of<br />
tribute.<br />
‘‘[The listing on the memorial] is important<br />
as a way of remembering what James did<br />
for the country,’’ Mr Dobing told the Mercury,<br />
during a recent visit to the Wollongong<br />
landmark ahead of the Anzac Centenary.<br />
‘‘And having Matthew’s name on here and<br />
not James’s – it sort of feels like the link that<br />
they had for all this time has been broken.<br />
For one to be on the board here and the<br />
other not to be just doesn’t seem right. It<br />
James Dobing’s name is missing from<br />
Wollongong War Memorial.<br />
seems like they should be together.’’<br />
Mr Dobing wrote to the City of<br />
Wollongong RSL Sub-Branch in January<br />
and was referred to the Register of War<br />
Memorials in NSW, which in turn referred<br />
his request to Wollongong City Council<br />
(which owns MacCabe Park and maintains<br />
the arch), and the RSL.<br />
A spokeswoman for Wollongong City<br />
Council confirmed the complex was ‘‘in<br />
joint custodianship of the council and the<br />
Returned and Services League of Australia,<br />
and any change to the memorial will have to<br />
be agreed on with league’’.<br />
The spokeswoman noted that names had<br />
been added to the arch since its original<br />
unveiling in June 1923.<br />
‘‘As military records were organised by<br />
Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, in Armentieres, where the inseparable ‘‘twins’’ were buried, a year<br />
after they left their Wollongong homes for army training.<br />
OUR DIGGERS<br />
units rather than by the local area, it’s<br />
assumed that some names were simply not<br />
confirmed at the time of completion of the<br />
Memorial Arch,’’ the spokeswoman said.<br />
‘‘The intention of [the arch] was to<br />
commemorate soldiers of the First World<br />
War. Council will work with the [RSL] of<br />
Australia to investigate the absence of James<br />
Dobing’s name.’’<br />
‘‘We have had the time of<br />
our lives since leaving<br />
Sydney, and have been in<br />
everything barring an aeroplane.<br />
We have pluck<br />
enough to go in one of them<br />
if ever we get the chance.<br />
We have many times been<br />
wet throughout; we come<br />
through it all with a smile.’’<br />
James, 24, and Matthew, 19, were among<br />
a group of four soldiers and a sergeant<br />
tasked with carrying out a dangerous<br />
trench raid at Armentieres on January 22,<br />
1917.<br />
They had completed their attack and<br />
were returning to camp when the<br />
Germans launched an artillery barrage and<br />
Christopher Dobing, a descendant of James’s, holds a picture of the best mates, in front of the Wollongong War Memorial. Picture: ANDY ZAKELI<br />
a big shell burst among their group.<br />
James was too badly injured to be moved.<br />
He was collected by stretcher bearers once<br />
When Australians arrived on France’s<br />
darkness had set in, but died about four ‘‘We sleep on boards, but Western Front in March-April, 1916, they<br />
hours later on the way to the dressing<br />
were sent to Armentieres, a town on the<br />
station.<br />
we would not change<br />
Belgian border northwest of Lille.<br />
The wounded Matthew was carried ‘‘for<br />
Armentieres was occupied by the Allies<br />
some distance’’ to a safe position and later places with the malingerers<br />
at home.<br />
Matthew’s father William was sent his<br />
ahead of the German advance on April<br />
on October 17, 1914 and it remained<br />
to the dressing station, where he died.<br />
within the Allied lines until its evacuation<br />
personal effects including his wallet, papers,<br />
photos, belt, three coins and a metal<br />
10, 1918, after a prolonged and heavy<br />
We often remark to each bombardment with gas shell.<br />
ring. His mother Ruth received £2 a fortnight<br />
from October 1917. Almost three are left ever think of us<br />
1918.<br />
other whether the few who It was occupied by the Germans next day,<br />
and was not recovered until October,<br />
years later, the couple received a photo of<br />
Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery was<br />
Matthew’s grave.<br />
getting tired in the<br />
begun in October 1914 and during the<br />
James’s mother Elizabeth received his<br />
winter of 1914-15 it was used for civilian<br />
two identity discs, a wallet, a metal cigarette trenches and wanting a<br />
burials (later removed) the town cemetery<br />
case, a Testament, a belt, knife, scissors,<br />
at Le Bizet being too greatly exposed.<br />
rest, or do they expect us<br />
ornament, comb and two metal rings. His<br />
The cemetery continued to be used by<br />
father, Christopher Dobing, signed the receipt<br />
accepting his Victory Medal in March<br />
field ambulances and fighting units,<br />
to do their share too?<br />
particularly those belonging to New<br />
1923.<br />
There are no prouder<br />
Zealand, West Lancashire and the<br />
Australian Corps, until April 1918.<br />
For Mr Dobing, whose great-grandfather hearts than ours to think The cemetery now contains 2132<br />
was James’s father’s brother, the ‘‘twins’‘‘<br />
Commonwealth burials from WWI,<br />
active service was tragically short. we are fighting for the protection<br />
of women and<br />
died around Armentieres and have no<br />
including a memorial for 47 officers and<br />
‘‘They had such a short time from when<br />
men of the New Zealand Division who<br />
they went overseas to when they died,’’ he<br />
said.<br />
known grave.<br />
children and the welfare<br />
‘‘They only embarked on July 5th, went<br />
In 1925, 455 German graves were<br />
into training around 17th November, they<br />
removed, but more than 500 remain in the<br />
of our country.’’<br />
cemetery.<br />
went out to the front line to France and by<br />
There are also 33 WWII burials, mostly<br />
January 22, 1917, they were killed.’’<br />
dating from the months of occupation by<br />
Because of their closeness, the Mercury<br />
the British Expeditionary Force, before<br />
took an interest in their service and at the<br />
the German invasion of May 1940.<br />
time reprinted the letters they sent home to<br />
tell of their excitement, mateship and pride.<br />
OUR DIGGERS<br />
Tom Allsopp<br />
Service No: 3752<br />
Age: 22<br />
Occupation: Farm hand<br />
Enlisted: April 27, 1916<br />
Unit: 30th Battalion<br />
Died: May 11, 1917, France<br />
Killed in Action<br />
Tom Allsopp was 19 when he arrived in<br />
Australia and just three years later he<br />
was preparing to head back overseas to<br />
join the Great War.<br />
He was a farm labourer at Dapto when<br />
he enlisted and he sailed on the HMAT<br />
Anchises in August 1916.<br />
Tom’s battalion arrived in France to join<br />
the fighting in January 1917. According<br />
to Tom’s service record, he was<br />
suffering from trench fever when he was<br />
admitted to a medical dressing station<br />
on May 11, 1917. It appears the station<br />
came under attack and Tom was killed<br />
the same day. He was buried in the<br />
Vaulx Australian Field Ambulance<br />
Cemetery in France.<br />
Picture: Illawarra Remembers<br />
Walter John Badans<br />
Service No: 6463<br />
Age: 21<br />
Occupation: Dairy farmer<br />
Enlisted: June 12, 1916<br />
Unit: 13th Battalion<br />
Died: January 1, 1961, Wollongong<br />
Jamberoo’s Walter Badans sailed from<br />
Sydney in October 1916 aboard the SS<br />
Ceraic. In 1917 while serving in France,<br />
Walter received a gunshot wound to his right<br />
leg and was sent back to Australia to the<br />
War Hospital in Guildford in June 1917.<br />
According to the Illawarra Remembers<br />
website, Walter’s niece, Dorothy O’Keefe,<br />
remembers him returning from the war a<br />
sick man. He had been gassed and<br />
wounded. In an extract from Dorothy’s<br />
book, Gone but not forgotten, she says: “He<br />
was a skilled boxer and won medals for this<br />
sport during the war. Walter was also an<br />
extremely fast runner and it certainly paid<br />
off, when he was held prisoner by the<br />
Germans, he managed to escape and under<br />
gun fire zig-zagged as he ran, therefore<br />
being a very difficult target. What a brave<br />
man he must have been.”<br />
100 year tribute to Anzacs.<br />
To the left is the cover of the liftout I produced for the<br />
liftout.<br />
Above is a sample of the page design and layout that appeared<br />
inside the liftout.<br />
IMD A001<br />
IMD A005<br />
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ILLAWARRA MERCURY, Friday April 24, 2015<br />
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Layout and section design<br />
I like to make creative layouts while keeping within a defined<br />
style. These are some examples of some fashion layouts which<br />
were designed within a section style but dressed up creatively<br />
using other elements such as frames, lines, colours and text.<br />
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Layout and section design<br />
When I design a layout it is important for me to read the story<br />
first to determine which images will best illustrate the story.<br />
Picture selection is often just as important as the words.<br />
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Layout and section design<br />
Wherever possible, I like to let images shine. This was a short<br />
article so it was perfect to run this image full page with the<br />
text overlaid.<br />
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Layout and section design<br />
For this client they already had a clear idea of what they<br />
wanted. I was able to tighten up the design and minimise the<br />
cutting of text.<br />
I was able to change colours to reflect the colours in the front<br />
cover. It was a big task collating all the images and ensuring<br />
the right photo was used with the right comments and answers<br />
given by the children.<br />
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Graphics<br />
These are examples of maps and graphics that I have drawn to illustrate<br />
information.<br />
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Graphics<br />
Left is an example of a graphic that organically fits within a<br />
story. It was strong enough to sit on a page and let the copy<br />
flow around it.<br />
Above is a small infographic produced to illustrate a small<br />
amount of information.<br />
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Graphics<br />
This was a large infographic that I produced to accompany a<br />
story that had a large number of statistics in it. It needed to<br />
be broken out and illustrated separately to make it easier to<br />
process all the information.<br />
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Graphics<br />
mercury news 15<br />
Political sparring partners tangle in Parliament<br />
Theatrics<br />
as rivals<br />
take floor<br />
GLEN HUMPHRIES<br />
THE so-called ‘‘pointless theatrics’’<br />
of Kiama’s Gareth Ward got<br />
a bad review from Shellharbour’s<br />
Anna Watson in Parliament this<br />
week.<br />
The two opposing MPs sparred<br />
in the state’s lower house on<br />
Thursday over the Albion Park<br />
Rail bypass in a debate that<br />
spread across six pages of Hansard.<br />
It started off when Mr Ward<br />
moved a notice of motion that<br />
both congratulated his own government<br />
for committing to build<br />
the Albion Park Rail bypass and<br />
pointed out that the Labor Party<br />
hadn’t done the same.<br />
Then Mr Ward appeared to<br />
conflate his motion and the Albion<br />
Park Rail bypass itself.<br />
‘‘If the member for Shellharbour<br />
sits in this house and votes<br />
against this motion, she will be<br />
voting against the Albion Park<br />
Rail bypass,’’ Mr Ward said.<br />
‘‘How will she explain to her<br />
community that she is voting<br />
against a project that she talks<br />
about but is not prepared to<br />
fund?’’<br />
Ms Watson responded by dismissing<br />
Mr Ward’s motion as<br />
‘‘self-congratulatory’’ and his<br />
‘‘show and dance’’ in Parliament<br />
as ‘‘pointless theatrics’’.<br />
‘‘The construction of the Albion<br />
Park Rail bypass has bipartisan<br />
support,’’ Ms Watson said.<br />
‘‘I have campaigned on it, as has<br />
the member for Kiama. There is<br />
no question that we need the road<br />
infrastructure built, but we disagree<br />
on the means by which it is<br />
funded.’’<br />
The $550 million<br />
project<br />
will be funded<br />
with $200 million<br />
from the<br />
b u d g e t a n d<br />
$ 3 5 0 m i l l i o n<br />
from the proposed<br />
partial<br />
leasing of electricity<br />
poles<br />
and wires.<br />
Ms Watson<br />
then called for<br />
a timetable for<br />
construction of the<br />
bypass rather than<br />
‘‘debating silly notices of<br />
motion such as this one’’.<br />
Heathcote MP Lee Evans then<br />
joined in, supporting Mr Ward.<br />
‘‘What timetable do you need?<br />
It takes several years to build<br />
anything, so it will be built in the<br />
next couple of years.’’<br />
Then, after a reference to the<br />
bypass being a ‘‘missing link’’, Mr<br />
Evans then suggested that the<br />
Labor opposition were ‘‘the missing<br />
links’’.<br />
Mr Ward also attacked opposition<br />
Illawarra<br />
spokesman Ryan<br />
Park for being absent<br />
for his motion and Wollongong<br />
MP Noreen Hay for arriving<br />
in the chamber more than 20<br />
minutes into the debate.<br />
‘‘It is wonderful to see the<br />
member for Wollongong finally<br />
enter the<br />
chamber for<br />
a debate that is<br />
important to the Illawarra,’’<br />
Mr Ward<br />
said.<br />
‘‘The very hard-working<br />
member for Wollongong, who is<br />
up at the crack of noon every day<br />
working hard for the people of<br />
her electorate.’’<br />
The theatrics from both sides<br />
continued outside Parliament in<br />
a press release war between Mr<br />
Ward and Ms Watson.<br />
Up to 2750 NSW power jobs on line due to planned spending cuts<br />
BRIAN ROBINS<br />
AS many as one in four jobs at<br />
NSW power companies are to be<br />
axed as a result of the planned<br />
spending cuts imposed by the<br />
industry regulator.<br />
The companies are also seeking<br />
a wages freeze in a bid to save the<br />
jobs of apprentices.<br />
T h e h e a d o f t h e N S W<br />
government-owned networks business,<br />
Vince Graham, met with<br />
union representatives on Friday<br />
afternoon and outlined plans for<br />
the freeze. The unions are yet to<br />
respond to the proposal.<br />
As many as 2750 jobs – a number<br />
higher than initial estimates – will<br />
not be funded due to the forced<br />
spending cuts aimed at reducing<br />
the household power bill.<br />
The companies are yet to decide<br />
whether they will challenge the<br />
spending cuts imposed by the<br />
Australian Energy Regulator.<br />
They have until May 21 to decide<br />
whether to take action to reduce<br />
the planned cuts.<br />
Earlier on Friday, regional utility<br />
ActewAGL said it would challenge<br />
the regulator’s decision to<br />
force it to cut spending by 36 per<br />
cent.<br />
Affected NSW utilities include<br />
Ausgrid, where 1100 jobs are at<br />
risk, Essential Energy, where 1400<br />
jobs are expected to go, and Endeavour<br />
Energy, where 250 positions<br />
are on the line.<br />
In initial spending applications,<br />
the three companies had proposed<br />
cutting 2200 jobs by 2019, on top of<br />
the 3700 jobs cut between mid-2012<br />
and mid-2015.<br />
‘‘Last week, I said we expected a<br />
minimum of 2500 current jobs<br />
would not be funded by the AER’s<br />
determinations in 2015-16,’’ Mr<br />
Graham said. ‘‘Now that we’ve<br />
absorbed the detail of the AER’s<br />
decisions, and because of the<br />
AER’s decisions, we expect 2750<br />
jobs, or one in four positions, will<br />
not be funded in 2015-16.’’<br />
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Logos<br />
These are a selection of logos that I have produced<br />
over the years.<br />
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Online and web based artwork<br />
On the left is a screen grab<br />
of a HTML newsletter that<br />
I coded and supplied ready<br />
for distribution, It included<br />
video, hyperlinks and direct<br />
links to webpages.<br />
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Online and web based artwork<br />
This is a series of artwork<br />
I produced as the Port<br />
Kembla stack was<br />
demolished.<br />
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Online and web based artwork<br />
These are four examples of images I produced for the UOW<br />
website. These were made using the UOW style and fonts,<br />
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Identity<br />
These are some examples of identity that I have<br />
developed for publications and special features.<br />
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Identity<br />
These are more masthead designs I<br />
have created for feature designs.<br />
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Marketing<br />
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The image on the left was an A3 banner design<br />
for the Marketing and strategic management<br />
division of the University Of Wollongong.<br />
It was designed to stand on a table and it was<br />
aimed at international students.<br />
The above image was a mock-up of an<br />
invitation for a building opening at the<br />
Innovation campus.<br />
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Mathematics & Statistics<br />
Media, Communications & Journalism<br />
Physics<br />
Psychology<br />
Science<br />
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Marketing<br />
This is an A4 brochure<br />
produced to promote the<br />
Global Challenges program<br />
for manufacturing and<br />
innovation.<br />
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Marketing<br />
This was a full page ad designed to promote the Illawarra<br />
Mercury app when it was launched.<br />
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Marketing<br />
This was a full page ad and<br />
a smaller strip ad made<br />
to promote a egg hunt<br />
competition.<br />
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