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7-2-20

July 2, 2020 By Bridget

Retractable Banners

All the design STAs were asked to submit banner designs that could potentially be used as a backdrop for online classes this fall. We used official UT photography and branding/colors in our designs.

The first ones I submitted on Monday were a bit too saturated and distracting, plus the photo of the UT tower that I used was not placed that well–it would’ve been covered up by the professor standing in the middle of the frame most of the time. So I made some edits and tried out some different layouts based on the feedback I got from Suloni and Valerie, and I think they came out much better! Suloni liked the neutral/off-white version because it’s less distracting and doesn’t compete with anything

 

1st Round of Drafts:

 

 

 

 

2nd Round of Drafts:

For these I just took the opacity down slightly on the orange/off-white/blue overlays (about 90%) and I added an adjustment layer on top to desaturate them a bit more. The photos are also at about 40% opacity so they fade into the background more.

 

 

 

 

This is roughly what the banner will look like while the professor is teaching:

 

ARH303 Canvas Homepage Banner

Dr. Ann Johns requested a new homepage banner to use when she teaches ARH303 online this summer (I think it’s starting in a few weeks).

She has an existing banner that she uses for ARH301, and she just wanted a few images swapped out to use in the 303 class. She sent me links to the images she uses on her tests, and I mocked up a few different options for her to pick from:

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Filed Under: 2019 Fall-Winter | Spring-Summer 2020

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