Hello, my name is Alex Barsy and

this is my personal portfolio website

I am a graphic / web designer

also enjoy editing / shooting video

currently available for freelance


Creative Skills

Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Premiere Pro, Flash, MS Office 2013, Autodesk 3ds Max, QuarkXPress

Technical Skills

HTML, CSS, XML, WordPress, MySQL, Javascript, PHP, JQuery, AcrionScript 2.0, AcrionScript 3.0, Microsoft SQL

Sites of Interest

picmonkey.com tutsplus.com ditio.net gliffy.com kirupa.com net.tutsplus.com css-tricks.com stackoverflow.com tympanus.net

 
Logo Design

Logo Design

Advertising Design I

Advertising Design I

Advertising Design II

Advertising Design II

Job Interview

Job Interview

Solar System Explorer

Virtual @-Postcards

Game of Life

Culture Pot

 
  
Logo Design
 

Work Type:

Higher Diploma in Digital Media Design - CA

Technologies Used:

Adobe Illustrator CS6

Description:

Logo Design is very crucial to the business Image. Logos is the first impression that a potential client gets of the business. Therefore the aim of the project was to select a Fast Moving Consumer Goods product and create a new unique brand name for this object. Create a new logo for this brand name that reflects and visualises the essential feature of this object and the new given name. The new band name and logo must empathise with the target market.

 

 
  
Advertising Design
 

Work Type:

Higher Diploma in Digital Media Design - CA

Technologies Used:

Adobe Photoshop CS6

Description:

The aim of the project was to Design and develop a A4 Poster (210mm x 297mm) and a complimenting one-sided DL flyer (99mm x 210mm) using the text provided, source original imagery that doesn’t infringe copyright to use in both designs, each design must be complimented the other.

 

 
  
Advertising Design
 

Work Type:

Higher Diploma in Digital Media Design - CA

Technologies Used:

Adobe Photoshop CS6 and Illustrator CS6

Description:

Purpose of this project was to design and produce an advertising campaign for Samuel Beckett’s play ‘Waiting for Godot’. It was required to design ONE landscape billboard advert 1:5 scale (1200mm x 600mm) and ONE Adshel advert portrait (1010mm x 1520mm) both adverts should be setup to be pre-flight print ready with a 5mm bleed and CMYK colour specification. All imagery used must be of original source. Brief permitted to use photography, illustration and typography to achieve the final design.

 

 
  
Artist site
 

Work Type:

Higher Diploma in Digital Media Design - CA

Technologies Used:

HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, Photoshop

Description:

Developed using HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript, the images were edited in Photoshop. The aim of this project was to design and produce a website that is at least 3 pages in content for the DESIGNER BEN BOS. The content copy for the site was provided by the client (lecturer). The website has a gallery section and an about page. The website interface is smooth and simple

 

 
  
Object Website
 

Work Type:

Higher Diploma in Digital Media Design - CA

Technologies Used:

HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, Photoshop

Description:

The intention of this project was to design and produce a website about selected an artefact of Cultural interest. The brief of the project restricted it to use all images of original imagery. The chosen artefact for this project was Roman Colosseum. I recently was on holiday in Rome and had lots of images of many places in Rome including Colosseum. It was a web design project for the Web Design module in my Higher Diploma

 

 
  
Job Interview
 

Work Type:

IADT - Continuous Assessment

Technologies Used:

Flash AS 3.0, Photoshop, Premiere Pro

Description:

This was a website created in Flash using ActionScript 3.0 in which we had to film and edit a mini video series. The website was designed to follow the interactive video narrative on the job interview topic. The concept had to be communicated with a minimum of 20 x 30 sec. video clips. It had to display character information and have a video player so the series could be watched online.

 

 
  
Virtual @-Postcards
 

Work Type:

3rd Year - Final Project

Technologies Used:

Flash AS 3.0, Photoshop, PHP, XML, PHPMyadmin

Description:

The aim of the project was to design a postcard editing, creation and distribution website. The user can choose the background by browsing through the categories of images, or upload any image to position it in the background; type any postcard message and attach the text to that postcard; and send it to the receiver email. It should attract users who wish to create the individual postcard on line and can help to draw people together.

 

 
  
Culture Pot
 

Work Type:

4th Year - Continuous Assessment

Technologies Used:

ASP.NET, HTML, CSS, Photoshop

Description:

The aim of the project was to Develop working prototypes from research done by psychology students. Developing was broken into 3 parts: Requirements, Interface Design and simple website prototype; Implement Web service, further functionality; X factor functionality. the goal was to create an interactive website whereby individuals from different countries around the world could go online and have access to large amounts of information on different aspects of various cultures.

 

 
  
Newspaper Website
 

Work Type:

4th Year - Continuous Assessment

Technologies Used:

HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, Photoshop

Description:

The aim of this project was to redesign the way news is read on the internet. The brief of the project restricted it to being a text-only design. The Newspaper.com was a conceptual web design project to design a typographic based news site, where text articles are the only content. It was a web design project for the Advanced Web Design module in my honours degree which tested my skills as a designer and required deep levels of research into traditional news media, usability on the web and web semantics.

 
  

Contact form

  

If you need a web designer for one of your projects or if you would like to say hello,

please use the contact form. I look forward to hearing from you.

My Curriculum Vitae

Trained in many aspects of ICT, Microsoft certified in Database Fundamentals,

I am now actively looking for work experience opportunities in digital media or

database management where I can use my skills in a professional environment.

Education:

2016 – 2017 Institute of Technology, Carlow (ITC)

Higher Diploma in Arts in Digital Media Design

2014 - 2015 Dublin Business School (DBS)

Certificate in Database Development and Cloud Technologies

2009 – 2012 Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT)

B.Sc. (Honours) in Computing Multimedia System

2005 - 2007 St. Kevin's College

Higher National Diploma in Media Production

Skills:

Technical

HTML / CSS, MySQL, Javascript, JQuery, XML, Action Script, PHP, Java, ASP.NET

Creative

Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, Dreamweaver, Flash, MS Office 2013

Modules Studied:

Institute of Technology, Carlow (ITC)

Graphic Design, Page Layout and Design, Web Design, Marketing Management & Entrepreneurship


Dublin Business School (DBS)

MTA Database Administration Fundamentals, Information Systems, Application of Cloud Technologies


Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT)

Research Methods, Content Management Systems, Multimedia Programming, Multimedia Systems

Software Production, Computer Architecture, Multimedia Authoring and Design, Usability

Multimedia Gaming, Computer Modelling II, Video and 3-D Modelling, Media Studies


St. Kevin's College

Script Writing, Film Production, Documentary Production, Editing & Post Production Video

Print and Broadcast Journalism, Page Layout & Design, Film/Media Theory

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