Date: Ongoing

Project: Redesign the Center for European Studies website

Design lead: consulting Suloni Robertson, Dr. Biow

I am currently working on redesigning the CES page, which includes a new banner, logo, and color scheme.

Date: Meeting on October 10

Project: Personal site update

Design lead: consulting Suloni Robertson, Dr. Donaldson

I will help Dr. Donaldson update his personal website and teach him how to do it in the future.

Date: Ongoing

Project: Conversa Brasilia Videos

Design lead: consulting Suloni Robertson, Nathalie Steinfeld Childre

Help reformat the Conversa Brasilia videos and upload them to the website.

Date: Present- September 21

Project: ICUP Logo Design

Design lead: consulting Suloni Robertson

I finished designing a logo for ICUP.

Date: Ongoing

Project: Redesign the Center for European Studies website

Design lead: consulting Suloni Robertson, Dr. Biow

I am currently working on redesigning the CES page, which includes a new banner, logo, and color scheme.

Date: September 2- September 6

Project: Histories of the Middle East Website

Design lead: Ran An

I uploaded images and their thumbnails to the website from a PowerPoint.

Date: September 9th

Project: ICUP home page mock- up

Design lead: consulting Suloni Robertson

I designed a mock-up for the website and made another mock-up with an alternate color scheme.

Date: September 12th-13th

Project: STA 2011/2012 Banner & Portrait Redesign

Design lead: consulting Suloni Robertson

I designed a new STA wiki banner and also a group banner for the 2011-2012 STAs.

Date: Present- September 21

Project: ICUP Logo Design

Design lead: consulting Suloni Robertson

I am currently working on designing a logo for ICUP.

Date: Ongoing

Project: Redesign the Center for European Studies website

Design lead: consulting Suloni Robertson, Dr. Biow

I am currently working on redesigning the CES page, which includes a new banner, logo, and color scheme.

Date: Meeting on October 10

Project: ICUP home page mock- up

Design lead: consulting Suloni Robertson, Dr. Donaldson

I will help Dr. Donaldson update his personal website and teach him how to do it in the future.

Total Time: 12 hours

This tutorial was particularly hard for me. I had done vector art before so I thought that it would be easy for me, but it had been a while and I had lost the touch for it. I spent a lot of time being frustrated by details and trying to find my style again. Finally I got the hang of it and started making progress.

The skin is softer with round shapes and smoother texture and the hair is more piecy and has a more linear texture.

As others have mentioned the shirt is a little flat and I need to work on the background but I am confident that I can improve that in the near future. Here is my finished project, for now. 🙂

Last week I met with Nathalie from COERLL, the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning. We discussed my involvement with their Conversa Brasileira project in the near future.

Right now they are constructing videos of native Portuguese speakers in everyday situations to help students learn natural speech patterns and hear real Portuguese accents.

The videos also include both English and Portuguese subtitles, special pop-out videos discussing key words and points from the video and also a PDF document including the transcript.

I will be helping them by encoding the subtitles, checking for formatting errors and putting all of the elements together to form a completed video. There are about twenty-six videos so far, out of forty.

This whole process will make me want to speak Portuguese, I know it! Just in time for World Cup 2014!

Here are some links for reference:

Conversa Brasileira Website

Video: “Dog Lovers”

Pont de Neuf. Paris, France.