Cole Gargaro | Graphic Designer
My resume as of 2013.
I think vertical business cards have a bit of an edge. I love the mix of colors and felt that my card should be a representation of my favorite elements. Salmon, chevron, western fonts and contrast.
I work for a high end furniture boutique in the Boston area. When the new owner came in, we completely revamped the branding and I was able to design their logo. We wanted something clean, dynamic and one that impressed 'custom upholstery' upon the future client. We change the texture and color of the chair to suit our ad and marketing scheme. I also set up and maintain their website.
An Invitation designed for the Grand Reopening Bash at Darby Road HOME.
Darby Road Home ad for the Boston Globe.
Darby Road Home frequently advertises in the Boston Globe Magazine. We put this in the Your Home Cape Cod and Islands issue in the Summer of 2014.
An ad placed in various Wicked Local publications in January 2015.
DRH promotes products through our email blast series Products We Love.
DRH Full Page advertisement in the Holiday 2014 Design New England publication.
A 72" x 36" banner that Darby Road Home uses intermittently on their door.
Make up artist Scotti O'Connor came to me looking for a logo that was clean, modern and feminine.
Scotti O'Connor's business card front.
Scotti O'Connor's business card back.
The Gift Huntress contacted me to design their logo and business cards. She wanted to illustrate the key elements of her business; that she literally hunted for the perfect gift when clients didn't have the time or creativity to do it. The arrow symbolized the hunt and the tag was obviously a homage to a gift tag.
Business card front.
Business card back.
Designed this for a friend. Used his company's logo to create and editable file for him to use when he needed to advertise new open houses.
This logo was designed for a glass and locksmithing company. It integrates the elements of a window pane and a skeleton key with simple, readable text.
Design the cover of an internet magazine using the logo I designed. We could create the content and had free range on images, copy and typography.
This is the design of a two page center spread for the same magazine that the cover was designed for. I kept the lines theme consistent in this design as well as in the cover- and wanted the copy to feed into it as well.
Create a book cover about a person of interest. I based this one off my husband and used the "clean but rugged" theme in this design.
I vectorized this logo- the design was set in motion by the owner and I was able to digitize it and clean up the idea.
Logo/stationary design for a daycare.
Logo designed for my personal blog. It was one of the first logos I designed. I have a thing for chevron.
used a few images, played with them in live paint and laid them out to recreate a book cover.
This was a lesson in live tracing. We had to recreate an old rotary phone and create an image with the given text. I love the retro colors.
I made up a restaurant and made up a menu for a school project. Inspired by my favorite ingredient and food that is generally delicious to just about anybody.
This is a poster for a made up concert. I had just returned from a visit to Iceland, and with their rich music scene Iceland was the perfect setting.
Exercise in the pen tool. I was to decide where to fill, where shadowing was to hit and as well, where light reflected. I love the Ray Bans.
This project called for typography to look and display its own meaning.
I was to take a painting, and repaint it with colors borrowed from the original work. The idea was to simplify the color composition while maintaining the clarity of the image.
I was to create a digital inspiration board which captured key elements of a brand's identity.
Design a concert poster. I repainted an image of Mozart- but kept the detail of this ruffled collar to play up an edge.
I used my own images to create a travel journal cover which featured Miami. I wanted to use vibrant colors and deco inspired typefaces to connect with the overarching character of Miami.
Sherwin Williams bus wrap I created the paint brush and the wet paint texture throughout the text to create a bus wrap mobile advertisement.
This room was heinous in the beginning. Dirty, crooked floor and no windows. We used Photoshop to find decor and furniture to redesign a room. I used an image of my own painting on the right hand wall.
We were to use two relevant works from the artist as well as layout a page design that would theoretically carry over throughout each chapter page of this coffee table book. Kept the font and colors consistent with the cover design and used the black background to feature the paintings clearly.
I was to design the cover and binding of a coffee table book of my choosing. I was to use at least one image, the artist's name and place the Museum of Modern Art, New York on it. The rest was up to me. The painting wraps around the cover back through the binding.