Desert Life Design portfolio
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One-of-a-kind creative portfolio from Desert Life Design
At Desert Life Design, we use graphic design, photography, and creative copywriting to engage your audience and sell your message! Please browse our portfolio below for examples.
Contemporary interior design
Desert Life Design accentuates contemporary interior design!
This breath-taking, contemporary interior design is easy to look at, but difficult to replicate in print.
Photoshop makes it easy to correct color. At Desert Life Design, we use it for our one-page point-of-purchase flyers.
Contemporary graphic design accentuates the contemporary mood of this home.
Home with a view
Desert Life Design lets the views convey a welcoming design message to invite the reader in!
In addition to striking views, we accentuate angles, color contrasts, and other design elements to compel the viewer to take action.
Photoshop worked well for this point-of-purchase graphic design. At Desert Life Design, we love it.
Rugged mountain views along with warm textures beckon the reader.
Emphasize important text
Desert Life Design uses size and contrast to emphasize important information.
Variations in size and contrast are important design elements, and we use them all to motivate the reader to take action immediately!
Variations in size and contrast are important design elements, and we use them all to motivate the reader to take action immediately!
Desert Life Design loves Photoshop!
Desert vistas and an inviting archway welcome the visitor.
Cool colors
At Desert Life Design, we love combining cool colors like purple, blue, mauve, and even pink!
Then we contrast the coolness of those colors with a punch of warm orange. In this case, the warm colors of the fireplace pull all the contrasting and neutral colors of this inviting house together.
Once again, we used Photoshop for our one-page designs. At Desert Life Design, we love it.
Cool, contrasting colors, imply an avante-garde theme.
A refreshing pool
It's a pool, a view, and some great living spaces!
Desert Life Design used the outdoor living space to entice the viewer to look at the inside photos.
Desert Life Design used the outdoor living space to entice the viewer to look at the inside photos.
Photoshop is a favorite tool at Desert Life Design.
A cool pool and a breathtaking view can sell a home.
Memories in print
The dynamic lines direct the reader's eye directly to the important information.
Our designer used geometric shapes to imply movement and add excitement!
Angles show points of interest.
Memories in print
While designing this flyer, we used Photoshop's layer masks and brush tool to seamlessly blend photos to create a 'heavenly haven' feel.
More Adobe Photoshop at Desert Life Design.
Views and a heavenly feeling.
Focal point
Desert Life Design™ used the old volcano as a dramatic backdrop to the enchanted living in New Mexico.
Adobe Photoshop was our tool-of-choice for this one-page flyer.
Accentuate the positive. Accentuate the lines and color.
Real estate postcard
Desert Life Design™ included important sensory elements in this postcard. For example, we used photos of listed homes which highlighted the views, ambience, and colors of the Southwest.
Created with Photoshop at Desert Life Design.
Visually-appealing postcards
Targeted real estate flyer
A feeling of home-sweet-home with enhanced views.
The views along with quality craftsmanship do the selling.
Commission Incentive Postcard
We used Photoshop to prepare these postcards for CMYK print reproduction. I placed them 2-up on an 8-1/2 x 11 sheet with crop marks and full bleeds. Layer masks allowed me to blend the photos with the background block of color.
Normally, we use:
• Photoshop for single page documents
• InDesign for single and multiple page documents
• Illustrator for logos, like the chili pepper
• Photoshop for single page documents
• InDesign for single and multiple page documents
• Illustrator for logos, like the chili pepper
I produced this 2-sided postcard with Photoshop.
Diagonal lines lead the reader's eye to important information.
Simple use of color
Photoshop's layer masks and brush tool did their job again. Finished printed size was 8.5 x 11 inches.
We used Adobe Photoshop.
Modern meets classic. Desert Life Design incorporates diverse graphic design themes.
Focus on the important elements
The graphic elements fit together like a puzzle.
The bed blends into the prominent address in a dreamlike cloud of enticement.
The bed blends into the prominent address in a dreamlike cloud of enticement.
Adobe Photoshop.
The views and the southwestern atmosphere are captured by Desert Life Design™.
Listing flyer
For this flyer, we used Photoshop, and incorporated a teal green that was in the kitchen tile. The teal hue also complemented the bright colors in the porch ceiling.
Another one using Adobe Photoshop.
Expansiveness and a homey inclusiveness.
YouTube videos
In today's savvy social-media world, everybody posts videos, including us. Yes, at Desert Life Design, we produce and post videos, too!
We use Camtasia to edit video productions.
A video about how "reverse sneezing in dogs" sounds.
This video is about one of Desert Life Design's favorite fruits.
This crew moved a large Canary Island Date palm tree! The process was interesting.
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Desert Life Design™ is based in metro Phoenix, Arizona. Here, I strive for perfection in graphic design and concise written communications in the technical writing discipline.