Kate Shepherd

<strong>Kate</strong> <strong>Shepherd</strong><br />

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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 />

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$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 />

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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 />

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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 />

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The companies are yet to decide<br />

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They have until May 21 to decide<br />

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Earlier on Friday, regional utility<br />

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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 />

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are on the line.<br />

In initial spending applications,<br />

the three companies had proposed<br />

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‘‘Last week, I said we expected a<br />

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Graham said. ‘‘Now that we’ve<br />

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decisions, and because of the<br />

AER’s decisions, we expect 2750<br />

jobs, or one in four positions, will<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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Media, Communications & Journalism<br />

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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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