Week 10

Project:  BEYOND SWEATT V. PAINTER
Client: Olivia Mena
Started: Nov 7, 2022
Staff guidance: Maddy
STA team members: Leilani, Carrie, and De’sha

Description/plans: Researcher, Olivia Mena, needed our help with data visualization/ presentation design for a PPT: History of Race, Science, and Segregation at the University of Texas
Completed: Nov 11, 2022

 

 

This firstly involved choosing an overall color palette/scheme. Then we reorganized/composed pictures with their respective paired bodies of text in a more visually pleasing manner. Most of the pictures were provided by Oliva in the draft PPT, but some pictures had to be sourced or edited to match the aesthetics/dimensions of the presentation. There was a combination of historical documents, photographs, and text that needed to be cropped and blocked on each slide into a cohesive narrative for Olivia to present.

 

From what I was told about the presentation from Maddy, (I wasn’t able to attend the meeting with Olivia herself) it sounded very interesting! I always like to hear more about the history of UT, especially if it is clearing up misinformation about the history of our school:)

 

Election Videos

Not much was going on this week besides working on the Olivia Mena PPT, but Mike sent out these finalized videos for the Election Day PSAs Maddy and I worked on. So cool to see how our work crosses over with the Audio team!

 

 

Week 9

Project: Election Voting PSA Graphic
staff guidance: Maddy
description/plans:  I was asked to revisit the Election Voting PSA by creating a new illustration, or even adding a new color variant, to help catch the students’ attention, considering they have seen the same PSAs in the weeks leading up to early voting.

Graphic 1:

Final Graphics completed by Maddy:

Week 8

 

PSY Labs Site: Imagination & Cognition Lab Banner Design

Client /Prof: Dr. Jacqueline D. Woolley
completion status: Started Oct 19, 2022
staff guidance: Valerie
description/plans: Create/design a new banner that will be placed on Dr. Woolley’s new website. She wants something related back to her research, yet whimsical and colorful.
To be completed: Oct 31, 2022

 

• Ashley (our point of contact with the client) asked for the number 1, exclamation point, and cat to be changed to symbols of a unicorn head, light bulb, and beaker ( or another science-related symbol). These symbols, coupled with the pre-existing ones, perfectly represent the concepts that the lab researches.

before edits:

after edits:

banner uploaded to the website:

 

UTFC – Green Screen: 7.1B Fashion

completion status: Started Oct 24, 2022
staff guidance: Yazz Fawaz
description/plans: STA is to find images for each word in the list and create a PowerPoint with accompanying french text on the slide.
To be completed: Oct 27, 2022

 

 

 

Week 7

project: PSY Labs Site: Imagination & Cognition Lab Banner Design
Client /Prof: Dr. Jacqueline D. Woolley
completion status: Started Oct 19, 2022
staff guidance: Valerie
description/plans: Create/design a new banner that will be placed on Dr. Woolley’s new website. She wants something related back to her research, yet whimsical and colorful.
To be completed: Oct 31, 2022

Inspiration from Woolley and her team: woolley banner inspo

Current website: https://labs.la.utexas.edu/woolley/

 

1st Banner draft:

• After Valerie and I discussed the elements Dr. Woolley wanted in the header, I decided to make the research aspect of the banner more explicit. I also wanted to incorporate some of the symbols (sparkles, thought bubbles, etc.) that were repetitively shown on the inspo pdf. I was also told that Woolley wants something refreshing for the new website, so it was fine to stary away from the old design.

2nd Banner draft (submitted for feedback):

• Updates: Currently, I am still waiting to hear feedback from our point of communication between us and the client, but hopefully we’ll receive some soon.

 

Project: Early Voting PSA

Start: Oct 18, 2022

Complete: Oct 19, 2022

Staff Guidance: Maddy

I was asked to revisit the Early Voting PSA now that the early voting period is coming up. The main priority was just updating the existing graphic with new additional voting info provided by Mike. This included making 3 variations of the graphic in both the blue and tan color scheme (6 graphics in total). The main struggle of this assignment was organizing the text in a way that was still visibly friendly, and not too cluttered. I tried to keep in mind the text hierarchy of the overall graphic. Color blocking and changes in font family/color ended up helping in separating text yet creating a cohesive graphic.

 

   

   

  

 

STA AUDIO POSTER (final)

Project: STA Audio Team Poster

Start: Sep 13, 2022

Complete: Oct 18, 2022

Staff Guidance: De’sha and Leilani

The STA Audio Poster finally came to a close last week:,) This project took so much trial and error on my part, but I was very thankful for the support I had from my fellow STAs with feedback. The only major change in this poster from last week’s update is that there was a crest change. I also got to learn more about formatting a PDF for printing by Maddy. I also had to import the individual objects into PS, because going from Illustrator to PS somehow messed up the quality which wouldn’t have looked very pretty when it printed (very pixelated).

 

Week 5

(10/5): AUDIO STA CREST

I revised the crest design after having a 1v1 meeting with De’sha and Leilani. The crest needed to be simplified and more icon-like. It also needed more specific references to audio (mic, headphones, soundboard, sound waves).

 

(9/4): SPRING ’23 ONLINE COURSE HEADER

I firstly sourced a few copy-right free images for possible banner options. Then, with instructions from Suloni, I drafted the four images into headers. I updated the year and added a gradient/blur (with PS help from Adrian). It was overall a fairly simple task, just a little time-consuming to source good copyright-free images and format each of them to the correct dimensions.