Gloria's Design Portfolio

1. My Name Is
Gloria Li
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Portfolio Design

2. Contents
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About Me
Phase Shift Projects
• Presentation Design
• Website Design
• Poster Design
Academic Projects
• Seminar Presentation Design
• Academic Essay
• Gloria’s personal profile and
description

3. I am a second year student at the Queen’s University, Kingston, pursuing a bachelor’s
honours degree in English Literature and a minor in Linguistics. My research and curiosity
has sparked my interest in creating beautiful work to inspire others. I am driven by my
interest in creative design and I am experienced in the Adobe photo applications such as
Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator and Bridge. I love to translate my love for creative art into
something meaningful and carries a purpose. I am passionate about helping others and I
am experienced in working in a team through my entrepreneurial venture last summer with
Phase Shift.
In the past year of study, I created a non-profit company called Phase Shift where students
connect to the community by sharing their ideas on topics such as autism awareness,
global environment, career development, self-help, music and culture. My responsibility as
the lead organizer was to manage my team, elect speakers and plan future actions. These
tasks taught me how to think creatively and adapt information into various forms of media.
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About Me

4. Phase Shift
Presentation
Design
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Sponsorship Presentation

5. What Is Phase
Shift?
Phase Shift is a student-run business, based in
Mississauga, which aims to provide a platform for
ordinary people to share their ideas and stories with
their community. Phase Shift allows individuals to
spread knowledge to their surrounding community
through a respectable platform as we aim to create
a conference framework which showcases local
talent.
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Sample

6. Executive
Address
Thank you for your interest in the premiere Event of Phase Shift 2016. This
August, join us in broadening our horizons about human nature, art, science,
politics and more by listening to the fascinating stories and extraordinary
ideas of ordinary people. We're starting a discussion, and we want you to be
a part of it. We encourage you to learn more about the premiere, and we are
honoured to extend this opportunity to interact with some of today’s
brightest youths and leaders. We invite you to look over our sponsorship
package and contact your sponsorship team to bring the best value for your
organization. Thank you for your interest in Phase Shift, and we look forward
to building a relationship with you.
Sincerely,
Gloria Li
Phase Shift Lead Organizer
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Sample

7. Feasibility And
Interest
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Based on a survey we release in mid-May, we have found that of
79.6% of individuals are interested in talks and conferences, with
18.5 % noting that they would really wish to attend such an event.
2%
19%
80%
Interested Very Interested Not Interested
Sample

8. •Non-profit start up dedicated to providing youth of the GTA a platform
to voice their opinions on topics that matter to them
•This unique initiative inspired student speakers to engage with the
community and share their ideas related to topics such as autism
awareness, global environment, career development, self-help, music
and culture.
•Successfully led a team of peers, to execute and commercialize the
event, that required demonstrated skills such as creative ideation,
people and resource management
•Raised funds through the marketing of this event for Trillium Health
Partner Foundation.
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Presentation
Context

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Phase Shift
Website Design

10. Website Sample 10

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Sponsorship
Presentation
Context
Phase Shift’s website is a project worked on by my web
developer teammate and myself. I contributed to the website
by adding written information such as the descriptions, FAQs,
Speaker Applications, Location and Featured speakers
information. In addition, I also worked on the aesthetics of the
website while my teammate implemented the design.

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13. Poster
Context
The posters are made as part of the marketing strategy towards youth and
students. The posters were made on Adobe Illustrator and Adobe
Photoshop. The first examples of the posters is both in colour and grayscale.
The print is more attractive in colour however because of the low budget for
printing we decided to print a limited number of coloured prints and use
black and white for a wider distribution. In addition, the logo for Phase Shift
is in the first sample as an abstract logo open to interpretation. Overall, the
design needed to look attractive to youth and students while also conducting
important information about the event such as price, date, location and link
to our website.
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14. Academic Essay
An Excerpt
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15. The Scourge Of Illiteracy In
Bleak House
Charles Dickens’ Bleak House criticizes a society that contributes and condemns
widespread illiteracy that is especially associated with poverty. The novel suggests
that those who are illiterate are discriminated against and pay for their illiteracy
through poverty and other forms of suffering. But as Bleak House shows, the costs of
illiteracy are not only borne by the illiterate poor themselves. The novel implicitly
demonstrates that illiteracy differentiates social classes where lower classes are
often the immediate victims, but illiteracy also damages the victimizer and the culture
as a whole.
Dickens demonstrates that literacy differentiates social classes. Often, illiterate
characters are discriminated against and dehumanized for their inability to read. Jo
as the victim of discrimination suggests that his illiteracy distinguishes him as a low
class citizen by comparing his ignorance of literature to the ignorance of animals. Jo
is banished beyond the boundaries of the civilized in consequence to his illiteracy.
The narrator questions the strange state of “Jo and the other lower animals [getting]
on in the unintelligible mess” to isolate an illiterate group that is ignorant of the
meaning of written language (Dickens 240). Dickens illustrates society’s cultural
construct by dehumanizing Jo which suggests the social corruption taking place as
the literate categorizes and makes distinctions against the illiterate rather than base
their assumptions on individual merit.
…
Salvation refers to the prevention of harm, ruin or loss in the seemingly endless
lawsuit of Jarndyce and Jarndyce. In contrast, discrimination against the illiterate
cause the loss of salvation amongst the high social classes through the spread of
suffering in the form of lost time and money. For instance, Mr.Krook struggles
throughout the novel trying to spell out letters while he has no knowledge of the
meaning behind the words. However, Mr. Krook has in his possession the final Will of
Jarndyce which proves to end the lasting lawsuit because “it is duly executed and
attested” to produce evidence to end the case in Chancery (Dickens 725). However,
Mr. Krook is unable to read it in order to recognize the significance of Jarndyce’s final
Will. Although the court of Chancery is composed of the literate, the court is unable
to make decisions and end the lawsuit. Krook lacks the ability to read and write while
Chancery lacks the perspective of neglected evidence (Dever and Meadows, “Krook,
the Lord Chancellor”). Therefore, Mr. Krook might have helped save many people,
such as Richard, from a great deal of misery and money had he recognized what he
had in his bundles of letters. Overall, Dickens suggests the suffering due to illiteracy
damages the culture as a whole, in contrast to only the illiterate poor.
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16. Academic
Context
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The academic essay is focused on critical
analysis of the novel Bleak House. The
assignment was heavily research based to
engage in outside sources including primary
material and secondary critical scholarship.

17. Academic
Presentation
Design
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English Literature: Bleak House Seminar

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Summary
Chapter 30
• Caddy comes to visit and everyone starts to help plan the wedding
and her future
• Mrs. Jellyby is distracted by her philanthropy and does not pay
attention to her Caddy’s wedding
Chapter 31
• Esther teaches Jenny how to write
• Esther helps Jo because he was sick but Jo rejects them
• Charlie gets sick while Esther takes care of her
• Charlie gets better but Esther gets sick
Chapter 32
• Mr. Weevle and Snagsby chats about dead Nero’s Room
• Letters get exchanged between Lady Dedlock
• Tony finds Mr. Krook dead with his cat eating his remains
• Mr. Krook died of spontaneous combustion
Sample

19. The game is simple — you all represent the country’s population in Bleak House.
Everyone in the country has a chance to become wealthy and move into the upper
class. To move into the upper class, all you must do is throw your crumpled paper
into the bin while sitting in your seat. If you miss, you will stay in your seat and
pick an “unfortunate event” from the paper bin.
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Social
Privilege
Activity
Sample

20. Health & Social Issues Activity
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You Deliver An Illegitimate Child
You Spontaneously Combust
You Contract Syphilis
Your Whole
Family Gets
Cholera
You Inherit A Great Sum Of Money However
A Law Case Consumes Your Life And All Your Money
Small Pox Kills Your
Significant Other And
You Become A Widow
You Get
Scarlet Fever
You Married Someone You Outside Your
Social Class So You Are Publicly
Ridiculed
You Lose All Your Money
And Forced Into
Prostitution
Your Whole Family Now Live
In Workhouse Conditions
YouOrYourWifeDie
InChildBirth
YouDieFromFamine
One Night You
Overdosed On
Opium
You Owe Some Debt
And Are Sentenced
To Life In Prison
You Lost All
Your Money In Gambling
You Get
Hypothermia
Wedlock
Workhouses
Minority
Sample

21. Academic
Presentation
Context
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In 1946 Geoffrey Tillotson described Bleak House as “the finest literary work
in the nineteenth century produced in England.” Although Tillotson’s claim
may be debatable, Dickens’ writing does explore the dark and dingy London
and his irrepressibly sympathetic exploration of human fallibility. The novel
provided me the opportunity to develop close reading, research, and critical
interpretation skills. In the seminar class, I made a presentation on the novel
Bleak House by Charles Dickens. The previous slides are demonstrations of
my interpretation and critique of the unbalanced distribution of privilege in
London’s social class system in Bleak House.
Poor Jo
Oscar G. Rejander
Before 1862, Printed After 1879

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•Creative writing, entrepreneurship,
swimming, environmental sustainability,
travelling, reading, cooking, documentary
films, and learning new languages.
Fun Fact:
•Fluency in Mandarin; elementary
proficiency in French, Spanish and German
Interests

23. Gloria Li
E-mail: 14gl21@queensu.ca/ Cell: 647 226 6909 / Presentation Made By: Gloria Li